Special Reports 10 Emerging Technologies 2008

Technology Review has released 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008. so what next, just look out the most emerging technologies here

Modeling Surprise
Combining massive quantities of data, insights into human psychology, and machine learning can help manage surprising events, says Eric Horvitz.

Probabilistic Chips
Krishna Palem thinks a little uncertainty in chips could extend battery life in mobile devices--and maybe the duration of Moore's Law, too.

NanoRadio
Alex Zettl's tiny radios, built from nanotubes, could improve everything from cell phones to medical diagnostics.

Wireless Power
Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity.

Atomic Magnetometers
John Kitching's tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it's never gone before.

Offline Web Applications
Adobe's Kevin Lynch believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and the desktop.

Graphene Transistors
A new form of carbon being pioneered by Walter de Heer of Georgia Tech could lead to speedy, compact computer processors.

Connectomics
Jeff Lichtman hopes to elucidate brain development and disease with new technologies that illuminate the web of neural circuits.

Reality Mining
Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn about human behavior.

Cellulolytic Enzymes
Frances Arnold is designing better enzymes for making biofuels from cellulose.

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New Delhi Plans $100 Laptop for Students

A $100-bill will buy you a lot of stuff in India -- and soon it could buy you a computer.

Shortly after developing its cheapest car, New Delhi has set its target for rolling out a $100 laptop, according to a government transcript. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangladore and the Indian Institute of Technology have already begun researching the $100 notebook, which would be primarily designed for educational use.

Producing a $100 notebook will not only rectify computer illiteracy and e-learning issues for India, but also for the rest of the world, said D Purandeswari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development.

New Delhi's goal coincides with that of the One Laptop Per Child organization, which spearheaded the effort to produce an affordable education device for children in third-world countries. The organization's current offering, the XO (pictured above), costs $188 and includes a 433MHz processor, 256MB of RAM and a special touch screen for pointing and drawing. OLPC's goal since 2005 has been to produce a sub-$100 computer, and the organization hopes to meet that goal by the end of 2008.

Other computer manufacturers have been producing inexpensive notebooks as well. Jointech is offering a its JL7100 mini laptop for $99, and the NPX-9000 is selling for $130.

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Scratch That Remix Itch With Art Lebedev's Plastinkus DJ Cards

The Art Lebedev shop, which brought us the beautifully designed but economically forbidding Optimus Maximus keyboard, is now moving into the toy business with a portable DJ scratch pad the size of a credit card. They call it the Plastinkus, and it's supposed to produce true music sounds.
From a quick look, it appears to include a tiny, hair-thin turntable but there's no word of inputs, outputs, EQ knobs, or a volume fader. But hey, if you can get any notes to work on a slice of plastic, it's probably worth the $5 it costs. It's available in 40 different colors.

If the Lebedev folks haven't thought of it already, maybe they could figure out a way to include a song on the card, then make it moddable and easy to transfer. The prices for storage has come down so much that you could easily pare it down to a super-portable music/DJ player. Oh, I know there are portable DJ players out already, but maybe one could be available for less than half a grand?

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Flashearth.com

Guyz i was browsing and found a cool stuff here to explore the Planet called earth.
Its has option like Nasa Vision and Microsoft virtual earth.
It has some thing called planetorium which is Damn cool
check it out guyz

www.Flashearth.com

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cuil.com: (Potentially) better than Google

Dozens of media outlets are heralding the launch today of Cuil.com, a new Internet search engine designed by a former Google employee. What's so great about Cuil? According to its developers, the search engine culls through 120 billion Web pages, which, by some accounts, is three times Google's capacity.

I don't know that I need a search engine to look through hundreds of billions of Web pages in processing my request, but what I like about Cuil (granted I've only had about a few minutes to play around on site so far) is the way pages are designed. Search results are displayed horizontally, as opposed to Google's vertical page, which often forces users to scroll down just to get to the seventh or eighth most relevant finding. Plus, Cuil features helpful drop-down menus that suggest additional micro-searches when your search terms return a huge number of Web hits.

For example, type "Canada" into the search field, and Cuil will retrieve 223,000,000 relevant Web sites. But the results page includes tabs at the top of the page for "Air Canada," "Canada Post" and "Government of Canada," plus a second set of tabs on the right side of the page dividing search results in categories like "Prime Ministers of Canada," "Leaders of the Opposition" and "Canadian Federal Departments."

Also, there are no search-fueled ads. This is in keeping with Cuil's mandate to not retain or use any personal information of users. And, the shorts abstracts from Web sites are easier to read and seemingly more helpful than Google's abstracts.

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