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TechCrunch recently posted this video taken at Microsoft TechFest 2009. It is a demonstration of a technology similar to Microsoft’s own Photosynth. But, with a difference that opens the door to a game changing shift in live content delivery. Instead of taking several minutes stitching together static photographs into a three dimensional environment, this demo [...]

So, I might have fibbed a little. I said I was going to share blogs with you in my new “Read This!” column. But here it is, only the second post, and I’m deviating from specification. There’s a site I want to share this week that, while it does have its own blog, is more [...]

I just came across this post over at Engadget talking about an augmented reality project at MIT. It uses a handheld pico projector to display information about objects in front of you. I’ve been so focused on the use of head mounted displays for augmented reality that I never even thought about what could be [...]

Everyday new research in the fields of nanotechnology and synthetic biology, among many others, bring us closer to huge shifts in how we manufacture many of the goods and products we use on a daily basis. Sure, it won’t be anytime soon that we have goodies like universal molecular assemblers that can produce any structure [...]

We’ve got a bunch of nifty technologies that will soon be prominent in the consumer sector. When combined these technologies have the power to change the way we work with computers dramatically. Today I’d like to tell you about a few of them. First, we have more and more processors popping up with multiple cores. [...]

This is an essay I wrote about a year ago. Finally decided to post it up here on the ‘ole personal blog. I’ve learned a good bit more since I wrote this and intend to write a follow up to take care of a few loose ends. For instance, there are now some references that [...]

There have been many distributed computing projects around for years. Basically these projects work by sending out data to many computers to do calculations on in the computer’s spare time. It started with Distributed.net attempting to crack MD5 encryption with brute computing force. As Distributed gained popularity other projects started popping up en masse. The [...]