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Entries for September, 2007

A.I. How far is too far?

Recently a computer known as “Chinook” solved the game of checkers showing that a perfectly played game can inevitably end in a draw. Artificial intelligence, also known as A.I.  has come a long way since the early days of simple computers performing simple tasks. Alarm clocks, auto timers on microwaves, temperature sensing central air conditioning [...]

Hitatchi animation for 1 TByte hard drive

Hitatchi recently released their 1 terabyte hard drive and they have a small flash animation to explain how they accomplished this.  I thought it was pretty interesting and you should click here to check it out. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Mixx it up share via Reddit Share [...]

Legal music downloads? For free?

A new site has launched called Spiral Frog, and it is allowing users to download music for free with one catch, advertisements are shown with your music download. They are boasting over a million songs in their download selection. This looks like it might be a good alternative to sites such as Napster and iTunes. [...]

Blog Rush added to this site

I have joined blog rush and added the widget on this site.  You can view the widget down a little bit and on the left side of this page.  The widget will show headlines from other tech blogs and provide a one stop area for recent posts made by similar blogs.  If you click on [...]

Have you seen my DLP?

DLP is being used in televisions today to make crystal clear images appear on the screen. The term DLP itself means Digital Light Processing.  Basically there is a small microchip with tiny mirrors on it, which accepts light from a bulb that shines through a color wheel and the the mirrors twist and turn to [...]

Blog Action Day

I’ve added my site to participate in Blog Action Day and if anyone here reading has a blog you should sign up and help their cause, the reach that this site has is amazing and it’s cause is just as great. Click the link below to go to the site: Blog Action Day Bookmark on [...]

Texas man builds a robotic clone of his son

I saw this article this morning and found it pretty interesting. A Texas man is building and tweaking a robotic clone of his son.  Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Mixx it up share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell a friend

Closed Captions provided by…

Have you ever wondered how closed captions work?  Me too, and apparently so did the group of guys that were sitting next to me at the bar the other night. For live programs, anything that is spoken throughout the broadcast is transcribed by a person using stenotype or steno mask type of machines, and then [...]