I am currently not in line to buy a new iPhone. I will not be in line to buy a new iPhone. While the iPhone is a great convergence of technologies, I am the type of person who will patiently wait while all the bugs are worked out. I know two people that are in […]
One excuse for people not putting up solar cells on their roof is the expense. Who has 14 to 30 thousand dollars free right now? Not many people. When the price of solar systems go down, then people will be able to afford them. Unless there is a different way to go solar.
On June 24, […]
I was talking with Tom McGlew in his office the other day and he was showing me some cool concepts with nanotechnology and phones. Nokia has a concept phone, Morph, that is just plain cool that in maybe seven to ten years they will be able to produce. You can wear it, fold it, bend […]
In Arizona where we have 300 days of sunshine a year, about 35 days of partly cloudy skies, and 30 days of cloudy skies. You would think that Arizona would be the solar capital of the world, or at least the United States. California has the one million solar home initiative. Germany has a very […]
When I think of solar energy, I think of solar cells, solar water heaters, solar lights you put up in your front yard, but I do not think of solar air-conditioning. Not until last week when the East Valley Tribune paper had an article about solar air-conditioning. The system sounds pretty cool, though it is […]
According to data from the Arizona Career and Technical Education Division, over the last six years, 63,105 high school students took at least one culinary arts course. Compare that to the 6,105 for Electronics Technology. Why would this be so? One answer is the Food Network and the perception that culinary is fun and there […]
For my birthday, I was surprised when my wife gave me a rare, available Wii Fit. The new Wii “exergame” that Nintendo created and trying to find is very difficult. I set it up that night and started exploring it. My daughters watched and soon questions came from them: “How does it measure your […]
A discussion was going on this morning in the office about the future of hard drives as we know them going the way of the floppy drives. Think about it, ten years ago, we had 3.5 inch and maybe a 5¼ floppy drives. The computer I write on has a 3.5 floppy drive, but I would […]
When Nitendo’s Wii first came out, it was a convergence of the following electronics: accelerometers, blue tooth, gyroscopes, and infrared detection to bring about an intuitive controller that anyone can use. This Wednesday, the Wii Fit is being released in the United States and once again, the controller is a convergence of technology. Millions will […]
Alright, the title is a little strange, but as I was reading about the exciting breakthrough in electronics, the creation of memristors, and I was struck by the following paragraph in a news release:
Williams and his team say they can now take a different approach: “Instead of writing a computer program to simulate a brain […]
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