Wireless Power from Space
The idea of transmitting electrical energy without wires has always fascinated scientists. All the way from Nikola Tesla to the current endeavor of Japan planning to send its first solar paneled satellite into space this decade. Check it out!
Multipliers
October 2010's book is Multipliers by Liz Wiseman. More information on the book can be found here.
Love
I warn you. This post has nothing to do with my job or really IT.
But I think I'm in love.
- Indoor and outdoor hulls
- Four propellers
- 468Mhz ARM9 processor and 128MB of memory with Linux
- Brightly colored stickers for augmented reality games
- Two cameras (front-facing 15fps and downward-facing 60fps)
- WiFi router
- iPhone controller app
Let's see, $300 for kids' college expenses or the "Parrot AR Drone." Hmmmm. What should I choose?
Top five uses for the drone?
- Excuse for buying more tools
- Golf ball finder
- Viable alternative to video games for the kids
- Additional support for the "coolest guy in the neighborhood" award.
- Reason for living (maybe not…)
What other uses could you find for this?
Google’s Cars Drive Themselves?
No, this is not the Jetsons.
Google is actively working on, and testing on the roads, a car which drives itself. A human is always in the car, in case something goes wrong, but so far the cars have logged tens of thousands of hours.
So far, there has been only one accident: one of the Google cars was rear-ended. Google isn't hinting about its plans to monetize this.
Here are a few links with additional information:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370518,00.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/09/google-car/
Is this exciting? Does this creep you out?
Conference Weekend - #ldsconf
For the last few years, Twitter users have been using the #ldsconf hashtag to have a global conversation during General Conference. In normal speak, a hashtag is a tag or a keyword prefixed by a hash (#) symbol that accompanies a Twitter post (tweet). The posts containing the relevant hashtag can be searched and indexed efficiently. Here are some stats for the conversation this General Conference.
- The conversation using #ldsconf was ranked as high as #2 on Twitter in the US
- There were 24,600+ individual tweets, made by over 2,000 different Twitter users
- 1,123,500+ Reach (Total # of Twitter Users who follow those Tweeting)
- Top Cities outside Utah that participated in the conversation in the US are the Washington DC Area, Phoenix, Mesa, Scottsdale, Houston, Sacramento, Orlando, and Los Angeles
- Top Countries outside US that participated in the conversation are Canada, Philippines, Mexico, Chile, UK, and Guatemala
- The most discussed session was Sunday Morning with more than 6100 tweets
- Morning Sessions appeared to be a popular time to discuss
Mice are Falling!
Read this. Kinda crazy. The US Navy gets points for creativity, for sure.
Whatever you think about the approach, you've got to admire their courage for being "out there."
When was the last time your organization tried something this creative?
Improving Language Skills
This General Conference we will have the proceedings translated in some 92 languages. Someday, we may be able to draw upon technology like the kind Google is building to solve our on-the-fly translation/interpretation needs. More info found here.
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