did you know that prior to owning this blogging empire i was very poor and at one time almost died from common influenza? the world moves faster than you can blink. where would you be in 2010? what will you do? if you’re just a grain of sand on the beach of information?
technology
in the beginning there was the cloud. then the cloud evaporated and a new cloud formed above it. and the new cloud is.. *drum rolls* zumodrive!!
the idea is the same, super awesome cloud storage accessible from anywhere, regardless of device or storage space. in simple terms, your 16gb netbook could tap into a mammoth of a 250gb file stash, and your 8gb pda or smartphone could stream 500gb of videos.
it’s all free up to 1gb (the other cloud offered 2gb free) and monthly subscriptions start at $2.99. see how it all works after the jump.
update: apparently dropbox syncs, zumo doesn’t. while zumo allows you to free your local harddrive and stream from your online storage, with slow internet connections this is an overkill. so i’m sticking with dropbox since it allows me to have offline copies of all my files and only sync the incremental differences between my other computers and devices.
i’m tasting a slice of cloud data storage with dropbox now. this is a good example of a new technology executed well and simple in a very easy and straightforward fashion. first you download the app. then on your first launch you will be asked to open a new account. and then.. that’s it! your own personal cloud storage, all 2gb of it, free. you can drag and drop files and folders like it was on your own computer. if you need more space they offer 50gb at $9.99/mo but i’m just gonna play around with my 2gb until i get comfortable.
what i like the most about dropbox besides the intuitive user interface (and web interface) is the team — comprised of mixed individuals from all walks of life. this gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling that my data stored with them will be safe.
in search for a cure for cancer, a retired tv station owner discovered instead a potential free energy source, saltwater. using radio waves he heats saltwater and ‘burns’ it into flames at 300 degrees fahrenheit. his invention could run a small engine and he hopes that one day it could fuel cars.
this is great news for the world, but i bet my ass the oil companies will hit him up with all they got. so i hope the government would fund his further research and ‘protect’ him because free energy could be the end to one of the world’s biggest problems today.
Here’s the latest breakthrough in modern optical technology.
When light passes through material such as glass, a portion of its energy is lost as it reflects off the material’s surface. Researchers at Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken) have come up with a theoretical design for preventing this phenomenon from occurring.
The researchers have designed a prism of engineered material — metamaterial comprised of an arrangement of nano-coils of precious metals such as gold or silver — embedded in a solid glass-like material. The prism structure has a negative refractive index, which makes it truly transparent to light, allowing it to pass freely through with no reflection.
In the future, this type of metamaterial prism could lead to improvements in low-loss fiber optic communications, the development of telescopes and cameras well-suited for dark subjects, and the emergence of optical equipment we have never seen before.
What does that all mean? Let me dumb it down for my kind readers:
You know those hot promotional girls you find at motor shows and marketing events? Like these girls at the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show 2005 or the Betelnut Beauties in Taiwan? Well it could get a little unsafe having a job like that because the nature of the male population visiting those events are sometimes questionable. Now get this, with this new invention product vendors and business owners can protect their stunningly beautiful ass-ets in totally transparent booths or kiosks. These would be arm-length cubical kiosks with dime-sized holes for air and audio where the girls can move freely and attract visitors. The unsuspecting crowd would think that these girls are accessible when in fact they’re safely caged in transparent cubes. They would be able to move freely and communicate with everyone around them through the breathing holes. Of course this would kill physical interaction but with some imagination you could replace it with something even better. Daring companies could market their products in total bareness at shopping malls and street corners and the cops and gang-bangers won’t be able to touch their precious ass-ets. Quite a technology eh? Well folks, first they need to figure out how to make this transparent metamaterial bullet-proof and shatter-proof. Otherwise there goes my idea straight down the drain.
Credit: Pink Tentacle
Hi my name is JErm and this is my blog. I'm just a simple guy living a simple life on a simple island.
