Roland Piquepaille's Technology TrendsHow new technologies are modifying our way of lifeSteven Ballmer's Thoughts About Microsoft- November 28, 2003 Steven Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, recently talked with BusinessWeek. In this column, he expressed his thoughts on a wide range of topics. Here are my favorite picks.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/28.html#a662 3D Scanners For Home Usage- November 27, 2003 Until now, 3D scanning was expensive and mostly used by corporations. Now, a new technology developed in Australia by CSIRO has the potential to deliver 3D scanners in our homes, if manufacturers are interested of course.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/27.html#a660 Digital Imaging System Leads To Perfect Buns- November 26, 2003 One of the growing market segment of the bakery industry is the production of buns and other rolls for fast-food restaurants. Now, research engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are working with bakers from Flowers Bakery on a machine vision-based approach in a quest to produce perfect buns.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/26.html#a659 Inkha, the Roboceptionist- November 25, 2003 In "Robo-receptionist clocks on," Nature tells us the story of Inkha, a robot which greets guests of King's College London (KCL) and adds artificial intelligence to the front desk.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/25.html#a658 Is Time Travel Possible- November 24, 2003 You probably read Timeline, the book by Michael Crichton in which a group of historians travels back in time. As the movie adaptation is about to be released, Scientific American discussed with theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, whose ideas inspired Crichton, and asked him if time travel was plausible.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/24.html#a657 The TeraGyroid Project Uses Transatlantic Supercomputing- November 23, 2003 During SC2003, the TeraGyroid Project used more than 6,000 processors and 17 teraflops at six supercomputing facilities located on two continents.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/23.html#a656 A Robot Carries Humans, Another One Plays Flute- November 22, 2003 The New Scientist says that a robot able to carry humans was demonstrated in Tokyo. The article provides a nice picture.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/22.html#a655 |