Blog entries tagged Japan

Glimpses into the future of telepathically-controlled technology

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:30:07 +0100

Imagine that you could control your technology just by thinking about it. Imagine that you could telepathically ‘tell’ your cell phone to switch to silent in a meeting, or inform your laptop from across the room that it should close Gtalk while you’re working. Ok, these feats may not be possible yet, but there are already very interesting prototypes around which make use of human brainwaves to control technology.

If the AppRead More...

Nuclear Hazards...be careful of media hype

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:49:33 +0100

Now, I am not wanting to downplay the dreadful situation in Japan. The massive 9.0 Earthquake has wreaked havoc over vast areas in Japan. Many, many people have died, and the ramifications & lessons learned will go on for years ahead.

But much of the media attention, and public interest appears to be in the disasters happening in Fukushima and elsewhere. There have been mass demonstrations in Germany, and it is thought to have been instrumental in the defeat of one particular poRead More...