Tech Review: Friday, June 7, 2013

Fuel cell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell

• a device that converts chemical energy into electricity.

Tech Review: Online Streaming

http://www.vudu.com/

• disk to digital program

http://www.roku.com/

• let's you create your own server and stream from it using the Roku device.

http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=26058&sid=f77491400775cd5a0c3f2327d346c0db&start=405

Tech Review Computer Technology: Friday, May 25, 2012

White House will pick innovators to fast track IT game-changers

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/05/24/white-house-picks-innovators-to-speed-high-tech.aspx?s=gcndaily_250512

The initial projects are: 

• MyGov, intended to create an online government presence to improve interaction with citizens.
• Open Data Initiatives, to make government data easily available to business innovators and consumers.
• Blue Button for America, to develop applications that will give individuals access to personal health records.
• RFP-EZ, to create a platform to make it easier for small businesses to navigate the government bureaucracy and help agencies source low-cost, high-impact IT services and products.
• The 20% Campaign, to enable the government to make electronic payments in foreign aid and development programs.

Source: GCN (http://s.tt/1cHcv)

Navy crowdsourcing tool more than just a game

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/05/23/navy-video-game-to-crowdsource-cost-saving-ideas.aspx?s=gcndaily_250512

• Army's games sounds more interesting
• https://portal.mmowgli.nps.edu/

Tech Review Science: Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots:  Georgia Tech

http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=79331

• uses less energy
• good for tight spots

World's largest iceberg bigger than New York City

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/worlds-largest-iceberg-bigger-than-new-york-city/10193?tag=nl.e550

• Arctic's dwindling ice

More drones coming to airspace near you?

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/02/06/agg-drones-uavs-faa-funding-bill.aspx?s=gcndaily_070212

Tech Review: Wednesday, February 2012

[darpa] DARPA IN THE NEWS - Steerable bullet aims for mass army deployment

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/31/sandia_steerable_bullet/

• EXACTO (EXtreme ACcuracy Tasked Ordnance)
• smooth bore barrel
• 4-inch
• laser guided 
• right propellant
• 2,000 meter range
• 1.242 miles

Tech Review: Wednesday, December 21, 2011

2012: 5 reasons it's not the end of the world (and 5 reasons to worry)

http://gcn.com/Articles/2011/12/20/2012-5-reasons-not-the-end-of-the-world.aspx?s=gcndaily_211211&Page=2

• Analytics 
• Watson
• the reasons to hope and worry were the same

NASA aims to let UAVs fly in civil airspace

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/12/20/nasa-works-on-data-link-to-permit-unmanned-aircraft-to-fly-in-civil-airspace.aspx?s=gcndaily_211211

• non-payload communications (CPNC) 
• Rockwell Collins
• communication data link
• five focus areas
• Separation assurance
• Communications
• Human System Integration
• Certification
• Integrated test and evaluation

Nabi Kids Tablet with Android $150

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12351154

• got some nice reviews
• http://techland.time.com/2011/12/07/nabi-review-a-kids-tablet-thats-not-a-toy/
• http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/11/nabi-tablet/all/1
• not sure what the target age is

App Internet and Mobile Devices to Drive Massive Technology Demands in 2012

http://www.pcworld.com/article/246512/app_internet_and_mobile_devices_to_drive_massive_technology_demands_in_2012.html

• Android and other apps are suppose to be one of the main forces pushing the Tech demands in 2012
• I think something is missing here.
• perhaps it would be more important to look at what the apps are doing

Tech Review: pre-Friday, December 16, 2011

Open-source webOS is dead on arrival

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/open-source-webos-is-dead-on-arrival/10003?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

• Not open source plan or support from HP will probably kill webOS

FBI goes international to fight cyber criminals on their home turf

http://gcn.com/Articles/2011/12/12/FBI-international-cyber-crime-partnerships.aspx?s=gcndaily_131211&Page=2

• basically much of the theft of data and money is overseas
• sometime the FBI know the company has been breached before the company
• companies should report the breaches quickly

A battery that lasts 10 times longer, charges 10 times faster?

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/11/17/experimental-batteries-last10-times-longer.aspx

• Northwestern University
• anode
• negative elctrode
• Lithium-ion batteries
• carbon-based material
• atom thick sheets of grahene
• no time frame given
• older article form November, but still found it very interesting

IBM's 'racetrack' could change the world of computer memory

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/12/08/ibm-racetrack-memory-data-in-nanosecond.aspx?s=gcndaily_131211

• nanowires of nickel-iron alloy
• 20 nanometers thick
• electronic "stripes" represent the data
• spin on way for + the other for -

Site for Cheap Android that Run Skype and Market

http://www.spemall.com

http://www.spemall.com/blog/?p=672

• They currently have 4 version that work
• 7 inch (KU:ATP1038)
• 7 inch (KU:ATP1048) sold out
• 8inch (SKU:ATP1040) 
• 10 inch (SKU:ATP1037).