Iceland Unveils Crowdsourced Constitution. New good way to do politics. Vote on it on internet. it's the near future. - http://on.mash.to/rlpj5n (via http://ff.im/IKSEi)
Huge Breakthrough: IBM 'Paradigm Shift':PCM Phase Change Memory: 100 times faster, high capacity. All tech much faster in 5 years. - http://www.newsfactor.com/news...
Pay with the smartphone, not credit card. $6.2 trillion Americans spend each year on goods and services. (180 bilionu Korun). If Apple can succeed in iPhones and iPads using NFC - allowing exchange of data and money, it would make Apple the biggest company in the world. - http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011...
CheckingFinder Makes Finding Bank Alternatives a Snap. find, compare and open a high-interest checking account. Genius Idea: Although the big U.S. banks might seem like the only choice around, smaller institutions can offer lots of perks, including higher interest rates, a lack of ATM usage fees and no minimum balances. If you’re willing to do...
Google May Quit China! Google released a stunning blog post tonight that details a "sophisticated and targeted attack" on Gmail that "resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google". Google notes that the attack was not just on Google infrastructure but also on more than twenty other companies from various industries. Google states...
Twitter trending topics practically useless, did not even register earthquake. they must be hand picked - managed like a propaganda. http://www.twitscoop.com/ with live cloud and auto-refresh is much better.
Navteq Will Map World in 3D, with LIDAR - laser radar. 7 cameras and 64 lasers. Google takes pictures of the world with cameras only. Navteq is owned by Nokia. - http://gizmodo.com/5444060...
Twitter-360 Augmented Reality for iPhone 3GS. Visualize friends and tweets. First app using new Twitter geotagging feature. - http://www.twitter-360.com/
VoxOx, take control of call voice, video, IM, chat, email, text, fax, social, file share, The Most Powerful Free Service for Universal Communication.. Cheap calls Skype.com, Fring.com, Truphone.com.. call.nexo.com. - http://www.voxox.com/home.php
Electromagnetic fields - EMF, cellphones emit them, are potentially harmful to humans. Virtually all scientists agree that more research is necessary to determine safe or dangerous levels. http://ewg.org. It's like one big human experiment which we won't know the results of for several decades. There is increased risk of some brain tumors in long... - http://preventdisease.com/home...
What we do know is that iron, which is necessary for healthy blood and is stored in the brain, is highly affected by EMFs. The permeability of the cell membranes of nerves, blood vessels, skin and other organs is also affected, as well as the intricate DNA of the chromosomes. Every bodily biochemical process involves precisely choreographed movement of EMF sensitive atoms, molecules, and ions..
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Internet-ready hybrid electric bicycle. Oh dam' it! - shift wireless via your iPhone! MIT project turns any bicycle into an internet-ready hybrid electric - The Copenhagen Wheel isn’t a bike itself but rather wheel built around a smooth disk containing a three-speed internal hub, a battery, a GPS receiver, and a variety of sensors to monitor... - http://www.terrapass.com/blog...
http://senseable.mit.edu/copenha... ..... The Copenhagen Wheel isn’t a bike itself but rather wheel built around a smooth disk containing a three-speed internal hub, a battery, a GPS receiver, and a variety of sensors to monitor ambient conditions such as temperature and pollution levels... NO cabling! .... Wheel owners mount their iPhone (or other smart phone) on the handlebars and use it as a controller via a Bluetooth connection to the hub. Use the phone to lock and unlock the Wheel, to change gears, and to collect and view data, such as miles traveled, noise and weather, etc. Because smart phones are also internet devices, this information can be loaded onto the web and shared via social networking applications or compiled with information from other Wheel owners to create a real-time data map of the urban environment.... The Copenhagen Wheel also captures energy from the brakes to recharge the batteries, a feature that seems to have excited a lot of the gadget press.
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In 2010, Your iPhone Could Be a Credit Card Reader - This "new hardware" to me is a misconception and en error. iPhone itself should be - and, practically is - BOTH credit card /cc/ reader and credit card itself. WHY to carry another pieces, cc and ccr? That would be so 2009nish. SERVER, SOFTWARE ought to do it, and can do it, all. That is the... - http://mashable.com/2010...
That is the only correct, and lowest costs, solution path. Customers will setup their credit cards with PayServer, tied to their IPhone/cpu unique id and their password. 'CC Reader" iPhone will display the merchandise, the amount to be paid, and/or any other info, and an ID code/bar, QR?/, readable to PayServer. "CC Customer" iPhone will "Take a snapshot" of this info, and this will constitute, for any and all purposes, a swipe of the card. ... Why the heck to require physical presence of a credit card, a physical presence of a cc reader, and plus the physical act of swiping the card ?? It would be a half mad:] mistaken anachronism bordering on ridiculousness. ..... There is more solutions to this act of software cyber cc payment, none with redundant environment unfriendly material of plastic and swiper. ... Example, without any setup, cc reader /merchant/ iPhone will take a snapshot of customer cc in the form of a passworded cc picture displayed on customer iPhone. Then, a request...
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Then, a request for approval will arrive on customer iPhone. NO other iPhone will be able to approve the transaction. It is possible to fortify the security via connecting the ccc - customer credit card - to their iPhone cpu id, to their email login, and/or even to GPS position of both customer and merchant /ccr/ iPhones. ... JUST, NO additional hardware, please ! -We are Americans. :]
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US Medical tourism: '5-star' care at a discount. US medical cartel monopolies are forcing lower middle class Americans to travel abroad to get medical treatment. Imagine cartels would allow Indian, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Korean good doctors, dentists, to compete, to practice in US, for up to 90% discount. That would be a free market, not... - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
not medical corporate cartel communism... if you're in that awkward middle, where you have a little money saved, current private medical insurance cartels scheme will take it all ........ Once a cottage industry, medical tourism may be on the cusp of a big expansion as governments from India to Singapore are investing in state-of-the-art hospitals, vying for a global market. Deloitte Consulting estimated that 560,000 U.S. residents went abroad for care in 08. The firm thinks that number will rise to 1.6 million by 2012, with patients getting discounts of up to 90 % on procedures from liver transplants to hip resurfacing.
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Republican Wall Street Is 'One Ponzi Scheme After Another'. Corruption Done by Goldman Sachs. Dot-com bubble, housing bubble, commodities - oil bubble. Private monopoly market corruption manipulation. Then you have republican gas prices at $4.50 a gallon. They know the government is going to bail them out, and they know they can do it, because... - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...