Archive for September, 2007
Inventing and Giving
Innovator Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway shortly after its official unveiling. As he loops gracefully around the stage, his fact- and figure-reeling betrays his intensity: 50 percent of the world population lives in cities; 43 percent of the refined fuel produced in the world is consumed by cars in metropolitan areas [...]
Microsoft Surface Computing!
One of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest secrets looks like a normal coffee table. Until it’s switched on. Microsoft unveiled a new tabletop computing interface it is dubbing “surface computing.” In the works for five years in Microsoft Research as a project called Milan, the idea is to transform a surface as big as tabletop into a [...]
