Innovations That Will Change Our Lives
The annual “IBM Next Five in Five” is a list of predicted innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The list is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs around the […]
Christmas 2007
There is much that could be said about the hundreds of miles of driving to see family and then a houseful of family and good times before during and after Christmas. I won’t bore readers of the blog about that but there is one thing I would like to share about one special gift I […]
WaveCube
Technical Information: 1. When installed on top of a cheap sound-card (or chip-set), that supports only FM synthesis capability, WaveCube greatly enhances the sound quality during MIDI synthesis. 2. WaveCube is a standard Win95 multimedia software component, that is compatible with both MMSYSTEM (legacy) and DirectSound (new) architectures (both by Microsoft). 3. WaveCube is capable […]
Internet Phones
Today’s Wall Street Journal story, "Web Phones Go Unplugged", summed it up pretty well. There is a convergence taking place between cell phones and Internet phones. Utopia has not quite arrived but at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month there was a slew of new announcements surrounding Vonage, Skype, and various […]
The Fly
The fly is quite an amazing creature with wings that can flap 200 times per second, and aerodynamic capabilities at 6 miles per hour that include flying straight up, straight down, or backwards and somersault to an upside down landing on a ceiling. What appear to be two eyes are actually two compound eyes each […]
