Parrot AR.Drone

Posted: August 27th, 2010
at 11:40pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: cell phones,design
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Trend Spotting Industry Analysis
Trend spotting consultancies use a variety of methods and produce many different products and services.A That said, there are some methods and offerings that repeat across trend spotter type and industry of focus.
Posted: August 27th, 2010
at 11:34pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: design,development
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Miradas: Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art
The early birds will get the freebies whenAMuzeo in Anaheim opens its next show, a touring exhibition of 130 works by Mexican artists and Americans who worked in Mexico.
"Miradas: Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art from the Bank of America Collection" runs Sept. 10 to Jan. 9, 2011. The first three days, Sept. 10-12, will be free. After that it costs $13 for adults, $9 for children.
The survey show includes works by Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Gabriel Orozco, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Edward Weston and Javier Chavira, whose "El Guerrero (The Warrior)" is pictured. The curator is Cesareo Moreno, visual arts director of Chicago’s National Museum of Mexican Art, in collaboration with Bank of America’s curatorial staff. It was first seen last year at the Chicago museum, and will move on to the Museo Alameda in San Antonio after the Anaheim showing.
"Miradas" is one of more than a dozen exhibitions that Bank of America has culled from its collections and put on the road this year and next. "Transcending Vision: American Impressionism, 1870-1940" is scheduled to open May 25, 2011, at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and "Portraits" is on tap starting in May, 2011, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego.
Posted: August 27th, 2010
at 11:30pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: contemporary,events
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Aneesh Chopra: The Future of US Tech Innovation
Aneesh Chopra was sworn in by President Obama in May 2009 as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer.
Chopra has sought to use information technology to raise public awareness about President Obama’s policies on health care, energy and the environment. Chopra discusses how investing in technological innovation is a crucial aspect of job creation, reducing health-care costs and protecting the country.
Posted: August 27th, 2010
at 10:50pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: development,entrepreneurship
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Capitalism 4.0 : Creative Destruction
Capitalism 4.0 is founded on the bedrock of Joseph Schumpeter's idea of "creative destruction". It also sounds ominously like the mixed economy nostrums that all political persuasions have embraced with slight and minor variations in the post World War 2 era. Unfortunately, most people like the creative part of Schumpeter's formulation, rather than the second less joyful part of the aphorism. Everyone also agrees on a mixed economy, provided that in the mix they are left to make money without interference in good times and bailed out in others.
Posted: August 27th, 2010
at 10:47pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: business,development
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Non-transitive Dice

We describe a set of very unusual dice, and a two player game where you will always have the advantage.
It's Time To Reinvent The Signature Page
Last night I printed, signed, scanned, and emailed two signature pages. AAs is my custom of not keeping anything around, I tore up and tossed the sig pages and then deleted the files. AThis morning I woke up to an email saying "We didn't get your signature pages. ACan you please send them." AI just went through the same print, sign, scan, and email process again.
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Posted: August 27th, 2010
at 10:35pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: web,development,entrepreneurship,trademark & copyright
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Smartphones to Drive Mobile Traffic
"Smartphones (are) expected to drive significant future growth in mobile traffic as well as create opportunities in the digital economy for content provision, service carriage and applications development," the report says. "However, the growth in numbers of devices and their use has increased energy requirements in supporting transmission and data handling networks."
Such concerns about sustainability are leading a convergence of the telecommunications industry and utilities, and driving the development of smart applications.
If technology analyst Ovum is correct in its prediction - that smartphone shipments will increase at a compound annual rate of 20.5 per cent by 2014, accounting for 30 per cent of the wider market - energy use will skyrocket.
Analyst Cisco predicts mobile data traffic will double each year from 2010 to 2013, and almost 64 per cent will be video-enabled by smartphone applications.
During 2009 alone, YouTube experienced 2000 per cent growth in mobile video uploads
Posted: August 27th, 2010
at 8:51pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: web,cell phones,business,development
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Gateway to the Viking Empire
For a century, archeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. This summer, it was found. Researchers now believe the extensive barrier was built to protect an important trading route.
Their attacks out of nowhere in rapid longboats have led many to call Vikings the inventors of the Blitzkrieg. "Like wild hornets," reads an ancient description, the Vikings would plunder monasteries and entire cities from Ireland to Spain. The fact that the Vikings, who have since found their place as droll comic book characters, were also avid masons is slightly less well known.
The proof can be seen in northern Germany, not far from the North Sea-Baltic Canal. There, one can marvel at a giant, 30-kilometer (19-mile) wall which runs through the entire state of Schleswig-Holstein. The massive construction, called the Danevirke — "work of the Danes" — is considered the largest earthwork in northern Europe.
Archeologists have now taken a closer look at part of the construction — a three-meter-thick (10 feet) wall from the 8th century near Hedeby (known as Haithabu in German). It is constructed entirely out of stones collected from the surrounding region. Some of them are only as big as a fist, while others weigh as much as 100 kilograms (220 pounds). "The Vikings collected millions of rocks," says archeologist Astrid Tummuscheit, who works for the state archeology office of Schleswig-Holstein.