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Tech-Notes: Justin Loftin talks about WAN Acceleration

April 17, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment 

Here is a quick note from Russell on some interesting information, check this out!

~Erika, Tech-Goddess

Jason Loftin informs the Theme Zoom community about WAN acceleration. I just heard about this down in Florida on my last business trip.

- Russell Wright

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Are Bloggers real Journalists?

March 14, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment 

With Web 2.0 blogging becoming the mainstream news network, once again we are facing questions about who is considered a “journalist” or “professional” writer, and given the same access to sporting and press conference venues.The news item below about bloggers being banned from the Mavericks locker room caught my eye because as bloggers I feel we are a unique breed of reporter that is on the edge of the web 2.0 revolution, and not yet fully credentialed by more traditional “press” corps… Or are we? Read more

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Cosmo: Apple Stores THE place to meet men

March 4, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment 

Ok,  I have to say that anyone who thinks Tech is NOT a hot dating draw is seriously offline. Technology is sexy, women who are into technology are sexy and this trend will only get bigger. Helen Fisher in “Why We Love” goes into detail how dopamine effects love and attraction, and well, nothing gets the dopamine going like the lastest cool gadgetry for both men AND women.  Read more

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MySpace joins with MTV in the UK

March 4, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment 

MySpace and Viacom’s MTV are partnering again, on a weekly TV show. The program is called “MySpace Chart” and will only air on the UK Network MTV Two. So far there are no solid plans to bring the show to US fans. Read more

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New Free Interactive Brain Map allows you to see the brain as never before.

March 4, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment 

Interactive Brain MapBrainMaps.org is an interactive multiresolution next-generation brain atlas that is based on over 20 million megapixels of sub-micron resolution, annotated, scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and that is integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function over the internet. Currently featured are complete brain atlas datasets for various species, including Macaca mulatta, Chlorocebus aethiops, Felis catus, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and Tyto alba. Read more

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New Ultra-efficient LED will vastly improve LCD screens

March 3, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment 

Student wins $30,000 for his LED discovery
ScienceDaily (2008-03-03) — In recent years, light emitting diodes (LEDs) have begun to change the way we see the world. Now, a student has developed a new type of LED that could allow for their widespread use as light sources for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) on everything from televisions and computers to cell phones and cameras. This first polarized LED holds promise to vastly improve LCD screens, conserve energy, and usher in the next generation of ultra-efficient LEDs. Read more

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Future of Nanotech Screens and Neuro sensors?

March 2, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment 

nanotech screens

nanotech screen

Something that at this moment is still in concept stage like Nokia’s new nanotech phone, but…… Wouldn’t we ALL love to have this?  Your lost so you hold up the transparent nanotech screen and see the arrows directing you to your destination, and instantly translate any language or have access to any information. Read more

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Nanotube: Tech-Goddess word of the day

February 28, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment 

Nanotube: A one dimensional fullerene (a convex cage of atoms with only hexagonal and/or pentagonal faces) with a cylindrical shape. Carbon nanotubes discovered in 1991 by Sumio Iijima resemble rolled up graphite, although they can not really be made that way. Depending on the direction that the tubes appear to have been rolled (quantified by the ‘chiral vector’), they are known to act as conductors or semiconductors. Nanotubes are a proving to be useful as molecular components for nanotechnology. [Encyclopedia Nanotech]

Strictly speaking, any tube with nanoscale dimensions, but generally used to refer to carbon nanotubes, which are sheets of graphite rolled up to make a tube. A commonly mentioned non-carbon variety is made of boron nitride, another is silicon. These noncarbon nanotubes are most often referred to as nanowires. The dimensions are variable (down to 0.4 nm in diameter) and you can also get nanotubes within nanotubes, leading to a distinction between multi-walled and single-walled nanotubes. Apart from remarkable tensile strength, nanotubes exhibit varying electrical properties (depending on the way the graphite structure spirals around the tube, and other factors, such as doping), and can be superconducting, insulating, semiconducting or conducting (metallic). [CMP]

Nanotubes can be either electrically conductive or semiconductive, depending on their helicity, leading to nanoscale wires and electrical components. These one-dimensional fibers exhibit electrical conductivity as high as copper, thermal conductivity as high as diamond, strength 100 times greater than steel at one sixth the weight, and high strain to failure. NASA JSC - Carbon Nanotubes

References:
NASA JSC - Carbon Nanotubes
Encyclopedia Nanotech

 

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IBM using DNA in Nanotube Chips

February 28, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment 

IBM DNA binding

If you are still thinking that chips must be built, think again. The latest trend IBM is exploring is GROWING chips from the building block of life: DNA.

The sceintists at IBM are experimenting with using something called nanotubes, which are just strands of carbon atoms that can conduct electricity, with DNA. The DNA then does as DNA will, it replicates itself along with the nanotubes into a grid that can perform calculations or serve as information storage. Read more

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Brilliantly Post-Technological

February 27, 2008 by Erika · 1 Comment 

Tech-Goddess ErikaTech-Goddess ErikaErika here, your personal Tech-Goddess, and as Stargate fans would say, “Brilliantly Post-Technological”.
What has inspired me to start tech-blogging is the awareness of web thinking, and the ability to put a label on what web thinking is, which led to the epiphany that those moments of profound overwhelm where my mind sees or hears something new and instantly creates maps and connections to seemingly unrelated concepts, objects or realities all interwoven back to a central truth are related to a shift in mental perception and logic that is global. It’s a shift from linear logic to whole-brain and more of a web logic that connects everything to everything else in coherent way.As we are bombarded with new technology, information and applications, I feel there is a search for relevance and theme, something that I can contribute by my own process of web thinking and insight.In “The First Sex” author Helen Fisher notes, “women more regularly think contextually; they take a more “holistic” view of the issue at hand. That is, they integrate more details of the world around them, details ranging from the nuances of body posture to the position of objects in a room”.

I feel that this is a subtle shift in thinking that is also happening with men and the male brain globally. It’s a search for connection and meaning.Web thinking, in tech, means that if you show me the prototype for a new kind gadget, first my brain flips through the emotional connects of whether I actually like it and would use it, and then begins connecting to how it would be useful to me, to you, to others, to humanity, and what kind of emotional and psychological impact does it have as a whole

Then from the emotions I flip over to the logical, just HOW useful is it? I start thinking of applications, and where it will or will not be relevant, then imagination kicks in and the timelines all happen at once. Can I see myself, other women, other men using this? How does it look, feel, taste, smell as I live their experiences? How much easier is it making my life in the scenarios? Is it viral? Or, is it just a really bad idea?

Digging deeper I want to know if this new gadget will benefit your business, your life, your family and HOW. Is this something we are evolving towards, away from or through? Where does it all converge back into one truth, and what is the core essence from the singular person to a world and universal level.

All of this happens for me in a few seconds of paralyzing brain freeze, something I thought at one time was lethal and radical daydreaming but now see as (Stargate inspired) post-technological web thinking.

In short, my intention is to look at tech and offer insight and instruction from a larger view. Let’s look PAST whatever current tech, gadget, trend or viral video we are talking about to the future we are evolving towards where technology is organic and our awake minds not only interfacing with the tech, but ARE the tech. (Post-Technological)

Can you imagine a world where call phones are no longer needed because our brains have learned to dial the “frequency” (like the current phone numbers) of the person we wish to call, and then we use telepathy to have a conversation? When I see something like the new nano-tech phone concept I’m reviewing here soon, I’m seeing communication and tech moving post-tech, BACK to the FUTURE, to organic

Ancient or Future?
You decide.

Your Tech-Goddess, Erika

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