Discussion: Dick Powell, who is one half of British design agency Seymourpowell, has taken on a new role as mentor for CNN’s Blueprint series. In this installment, Powell offers advice to a group of students who have turned a student project into a business. The product, Bare Conductive paint, allows users to paint a circuit… Read more »
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Hackers hit petition site Change.org, official says
Discussion: On Friday, online petition site, Change.org, was hacked. Reports say that there were only “cosmetic” changes made, and that no personal information was compromised. A spokesman for the company also noted that none of the 12 petitions that were targeted had its number of signatures affected. It appears at this time that the petitions that were… Read more »
How Xbox One could be a game-changer
Discussion: Microsoft’s new Xbox One may change how people interact with their gaming consoles. Besides the updated hardware (including controller, CPU, and camera that uses detailed motion techniques) the non-gaming content on the console will be much improved. Xbox is going to launch its own original TV content that will be available on the platform,… Read more »
Yahoo rolls out update to make Flickr ‘awesome again’
Discussion: Hours after Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, announced that it was buying blog site, Tumblr, it also announced that it was re-vamping Flickr. Flickr, a photo-sharing service, had been falling out of use since Yahoo purchased the start-up in 2005. Among other things, the updated site will allow users one terabyte of storage and a promise… Read more »
4 reasons online TV is still a pipe dream
Discussion: ABC is going to be the first broadcast company to launch its online live-streaming TV app this week, but be warned that true online TV is not here just yet. One of the problems with the app is that it will only be available around the New York and Philadelphia areas. Also, after a free trial… Read more »
Special-effects master pushes new movie format
Discussion: Special-effects giant, Douglas Trumbull, has been very influential in shaping how movies are seen today. Recently, he has devised a new movie format that shows movie frames at 120 frames per second, instead of the normal 24 frames per second. This new technique would be especially beneficial in action movies, as action scenes tend to blur… Read more »
Scientists come a step closer to ‘invisibility cloak’
Discussion: Humans have dreamed of becoming invisible for centuries–it is the stuff superheroes are made of. Researchers in Texas have developed a ‘mantle cloak’ that, when wrapped around an object, makes the object ‘disappear’. The effect, however, only applies to limited range of light waves (in specific, microwaves). When encased in the cloak, microwave detectors can no… Read more »
Digital tattoos, mind-reading headphones: The shape of things to come?
Discussion: Forecasting future technology is not an easy feat. Ten years ago, it was hard to imagine that things like 3-D printed food, bionic body parts, and invisibility cloaks would be a part of our future. Some experts believe that the areas of manufacturing and wearable technology will hold the biggest advancements in the coming… Read more »
A decade of iTunes singles killed the music industry
Discussion: iTunes has officially existed for a full decade, and during that time has drastically changed how people access and listen to music, as well as the music industry as a whole. iTunes has been a source of frustration for the music industry as music sales have plummeted by nearly half since 2003, but during… Read more »
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