Category: Technology

Like the Sony Librie But Better

Hanlin eBook Model V2

Sweet! A low powered high contrast electronic paper display (EPD) ebook reader without all that pesky DRM crap.
It will read the following formats:

PDF Viewer, WOLF Viewer(WOLF File Format:convert from txt,htm,DOC ,PDF,Excel,PPT,Images,mp3 ets),HTML Viewer,TXT Viewer

Looks quite similar to the one from Sony, except that the Hanlin is a little shy on buttons .I have wondered why the Librie has a keyboard if everything is pretty much read only on them. Annotations perhaps?
So, I wonder if I can get one of these on my next trip to Bangkok…

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Hanlin eBook Model V2

Catom Teleportation

First off, what the heck is a ‘Catom’ you ask? Well, a catom is short for “claytronic atoms”. That would be atom sized robots that could assemble themselves into all sorts of handy devices with the aid of a computer. Think a bucket of smart micron sized LEGO bricks. You order up some way cool germ seeing micro glasses off the Internet and your computer commands your bucket of smart LEGOs to take the shape and functionality of it. Once finished you pull your micro glasses out of the bucket and start to freak out about how unclean your house is.
Right now researchers are trying to build centimeter sized robots that will do this so don’t look for your catom based replicator just yet, give them about 20 years for that.

Using ‘catoms’ for teleportation?

SharpUX-MF40CL “Miracle” Series

Talk about all your eggs in one basket!

-USB or network connectivity
-Printer
-Fax
-Copier
-Scanner
-PDF creation
-Scan to emai
-Document feeder
-Cordless phone base station
-Memory card slot
-PictBridge
-Synchronizing with a mobile phone

It might only work in Japan (I think the landline phone standards are a bit different there) but still, it would be an amazing chunk of technology to have in your home office.

Sharp’s kitchen sink

Superstar – ???????

A cool game based on the phone and photo booth technology of Japan.
The idea of the game is pretty simple:

Goal: Get points by shooting the stickers of other players and by having other players shoot your own.

I don’t think there is any other place on the planet where this game could be easily played. Oh sure, you could try it in L.A. or New York but finding the Puri Kura sticker machines might be a little tough. And then you have the problem with taking photos of the stickers, how many cell phones in the US have a macro mode?!? Not saying that it’d impossible, just harder. I hope to see someone try this her in the states.
The mechanics of the game are pretty cool, once you shoot a photo of the players sticker (the stickers have to have a star on them to show that its in the game) and automated system matches it with the right player in the database.

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superstar – ???????

And Away They Go!

Oh cool! LiftPort Group Inc., of Bremerton, Wa. tested a robot that climbed 1,000 feet of ribbon suspended by a balloon. This is the fist step towards building an actual space elevator. A full sized elevator would reduce the cost of spaceflight to the point that a trip into orbit would cost as much as a regular international air flight.

Space elevator robot passes 1,000-foot mark – Space.com – MSNBC.com