US To Drive 3,000 Wi-Fi Linked Vehicles In Massive Crash Avoidance Trial

The US Department of Transportation said it will run a massive road test of cars, trucks and buses linked together via WiFi equipment in what the agency says will be the largest test of automated crash avoidance technology to date.

More

Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs

Microsoft has never really acknowledged or supported those among us who choose to build their own PCs. Windows licensing is usually offered in three forms: full retail product license, retail upgrade license, and OEM license. If you want to build your own machine at the moment, Microsoft expects you to buy a full retail copy of Windows, and states clearly that using the OEM licensed version is prohibited by individuals. The price difference made the OEM version the one to get, though.

With Windows 8 that all changes

More

My 1st rage comic

Anticipating the Free PC: Microsoft as a Services Company

 AT&T in its prime was a services company: You got the telephones for free and paid a monthly fee for services that covered the cost of the hardware. Because the hardware was a cost center, it didn’t change very often and was designed to last for decades. Outside of cable companies, this was a very different world back then but the trend pendulum swings and it is starting to swing back to services. And while we are calling it “the cloud” this time and it is far more than just phones, the result could be that hardware is free and we are back to a monthly charge for access. 

more 

Scientists Find Truth in "Mad Scientist" Stereotype: There Is a Link between Genius and Insanity - Medical Daily

Scientists Find Truth in "Mad Scientist" Stereotype: There Is a Link between Genius and Insanity - Medical Daily

Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years

Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years

The Story of Your Enslavement

Jobless society

Project Glass: One day...

Game of Thrones

Full-Length Special: You Win or You Die

Researcher publishes specs for real Linux-powered Star Trek tricorder

The Star Trek tricorder has become a reality, thanks to the hobby project of a cognitive science researcher. Dr. Peter Jansen has developed a handheld mobile computing device that has a number of sophisticated embedded sensors. The device is modeled after the distinctive design of the 24th-century tricorder.

He began working on the project in 2007 and aims to make it easy for others to reproduce his designs. He has made complete schematics for two of his four models available under the terms of the TAPR non-commercial hardware license. The underlying source code of the device's software environment is available under the GPL. In a blog post about the project, Jansen explained that he hopes his project will encourage scientific curiosity and help people better understand the world.
More

Keep Your LAMP Skills Trimmed and Burning | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com

Keep Your LAMP Skills Trimmed and Burning | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com

The Lightbulb Conspiracy - The untold story of Planned obselesance Video

The Lightbulb Conspiracy - The untold story of Planned obsolescence Video

Claytronics

Solve for X

Occupy The World

Employment Level Zero

I am thinking about writing a book
How to achieve a world with true freedom
Tech would include
Domestic Robots,Free Energy,and 3d printers i.e replicators.
What other tech is needed ?
How should society be adjusted to allow these without undue distress ?

Smoking Tied to Lower Risk of Joint Surgery

Men who smoke the longest have the lowest risk of needing a total joint replacement, researchers found.
Medpage today

New solution can help 'permanently get rid of germs'

A new anti-microbial treatment that can make clothing - including smelly socks - permanently germ-free has been developed by US scientists.

BBC

Scientist sees aging cured

If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger.

News Daily