Home » Archive

Articles in the Technology Category

Technology »

[15 Jun 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
New Game on Facebook Helps People with Diabetes Improve Everyday Behaviors

A new game called HealthSeeker(TM) launched today to more than 400 million active users of Facebook®(1), with the goal of helping adults with specific lifestyle and nutritional challenges. While the benefits of the game are available to anyone, HealthSeeker specifically helps people with diabetes make more informed lifestyle decisions in an innovative way that complements their daily use of social media.

Arts, Photography, Technology »

[16 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Earth, Moon, and Jupiter as Seen From Mars

What does Earth look like when viewed from Mars? At 13:00 GMT on 8 May 2003, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) had an opportunity to find out. In addition, a fortuitous alignment of Earth and Jupiter—the first planetary conjunction viewed from another planet—permitted the MOC to acquire an image of both of these bodies and their larger satellites.

Arts, Odds and Ends, Technology »

[15 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Just how big is the Internet?

The Internet is big…real big. Check out this graphic to see the staggering statistics for an average day!

Arts, Technology »

[15 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Web Therapy – Retrofuturs

Stéphane Massa-Bida has given some of our most well known memes and websites the retro treatment to give us a nostalgic look back at how things could have been.

Arts, Photography, Technology, Video and Film »

[19 Jul 2009 | No Comment | ]
100 Years of film effects

A very cool summary of the way in which effects have changed over the years in the film industry, some of the early ones are still a bit hard to unravel when you watch them now but this short video brings you up to date from the earliest through to the most recent cutting edge technology.

Arts, Technology »

[10 Jul 2009 | No Comment | ]
Nokia Design Videos Released

A series of three videos have been released by Nokia that show the philosophy and methodology used by their designers when it comes new phones.

The three videos cover:Homescreens, Icons and Gestures

The videos can be seen over on the Nokia Conversations website but I’ve added them here from the YouTube link so that you can admire them without leaving this site.

Technology »

[1 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

Echoing the sleek design and feel of the world renowned Nokia E71, the Nokia E71x offers the ultimate QWERTY experience to messaging enthusiasts who want a device to complement their busy lifestyles – all in a thin, stylish package.

Arts, Technology »

[19 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]

In TRANSCENDENT MAN, Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the globe as he presents the daring arguments from his best-selling book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Kurzweil predicts that with the ever-accelerating rate of technological change, humanity is fast approaching an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly non-biological and trillions of times more powerful than today.

Sound and Music, Technology »

[2 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]

Nokia announced today that the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now available in the United States. The latest in Nokia’s XpressMusic range, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to the mass market.

Technology »

[17 Feb 2009 | No Comment | ]

At the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated and Nokia Corporation today(16 February) announced a USD 10 million Open Screen Project fund designed to help developers create applications and services for mobile, desktop and consumer electronics devices using the Adobe Flash(R) Platform.