Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models

Also “completely virtual” are the models at the center of H&M’s swimsuit and lingerie online campaigns, the Swedish-based retailer confirmed.

“It’s not a real body; it is completely virtual and made by the computer,” H&M press officer Hacan Andersson told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an article questioning the company’s picture-perfect online models.

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H&M under fire for using 'completely virtual' models

Connect your things to the Internet - IoT

http://ninjablocks.com/
http://www.greenwavereality.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/twine-listen-to-your-world-talk-to-the-internet

Facebook and Yahoo news

Faster than Light

I thought about it couple of years back, didn't thought that it will get real in my life. One other item will be added in this new world will be multiple dimensions more than what we know today. Look on following post for more on this:

Out of Three Dimensional world
http://techtalk-ns.blogspot.com/2008/03/out-of-three-dimensional-world.html

(Reuters) - An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light -- a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's long-accepted fundamental laws of the universe. more...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-science-light-idUSTRE78L4FH20110922

Nobel Prize honors super-strong, super-thin carbon

NEW YORK, (AP) --

It is the thinnest and strongest material known to mankind — no thicker than a single atom and 100 times tougher than steel. Could graphene be the next plastic? Maybe so, says one of two scientists who won a Nobel Prize on Tuesday for isolating and studying it.

Faster computers, lighter airplanes, transparent touch screens — the list of potential uses runs on. Some scientists say we can't even imagine what kinds of products might be possible with the substance, which hides in ordinary pencil lead and first was extracted using a piece of Scotch tape.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/10/05/international/i025338D19.DTL#ixzz11em8am7S

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene

New laser shoots beams of night

A laser that doesn't produce light would ordinarily be a failure. After all, the first two letters of laser stand for light amplification, not light reduction.

But a new laser created by scientists at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, shoots beams of night instead of beams of light. The "dark pulses," as the NIST scientists ominously call them, create areas absent of light. more......

Eric Giler demos wireless electricity - WiTricity

Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense - Open Source

In his video at the end he mentioned that he would like to put this as open source for every body to use. I am going to write on this topic next. Patent vs. Open Source, how the new words culture will change the way business is done today.

Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

China leads in Next Generation Technologies?

Internet of Things (IoT)

It is no secert that in the Manufacturing/Export space China had crossed industrial nations. Most of the analyst in Europe/USA thinks that in innovation we are still leading and China is far behind. I respectfully disagree, if you see the IPC (Patents) statistics it is quite visible that China and India are innovating with much faster pace as anticipated. IoT is just an other example, if you go to search on Google for IEEE_802.15.4 (IEEE standard for physical layer WPANs) there will be more sites in Chinese on the first page than in English.

An other addition to DECE

This will change the way we consume content. In the long run DVD/Blueray will disappear and the transport will be Internet for the video distribution.

An other addition to DECE

Cox to DECE

Future of Digital Media over IP (Internet)

http://www.decellc.com/
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=186278

LOS ANGELES -- Today the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem LLC (DECE LLC), www.decellc.com, a coalition with support from every industry involved in digital entertainment, announced it has reached key milestones toward establishing the first open market for digital content distribution. In addition, DECE announced that 21 companies have joined the group which now includes 48 members across entertainment, software, hardware, retail, infrastructure and delivery.

The milestones announced today include:

• Agreement on a Common File Format, an open specification for digital entertainment, that will be used by all participating content providers, services and device manufacturers
• Vendor selection for and role of the Digital Rights Locker, a cloud-based authentication service and account management hub that allows consumers rights access to their digital entertainment
• Approval of five Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions that will be DECE-compatible

Full technical specifications will be available in the first half of 2010.

Project Natal - Microsoft

No Future for Blu-ray Disc - DVD

Online rent compare to dvd rent vs dvd bought. No future for blueray as the media(movie) will be over network in digital format. Rental or buy services are already getting alot of attraction from endusers. Example for some services : Xbox-Netflex, itunes, Hulu etc.

Najam

Cloning

SKorean scientists clone pig for human transplants

Fertility doctor on brink of cloning human: report

Interesting...........

Najam

Cool Gadgets

http://www.chumby.com/

Storage device - Nucleus of an atom

In a world where time is of the essence, science and technology just keep giving us faster ways to achieve older goals and new paths towards new breakthroughs. A team of scientists from around the globe are working on a way to store information into the nucleus of an atom.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/102408-small-storage-device.html


Najam Saquib

Say goodbye to the computer mouse

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7508842.stm

Electric cars - New origin of Innovation

Kathmandu, Nepal, has one of the highest per-capita rates of electric vehicles in the world.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2008/05/25/rivers.nepal.rickshaw.cnn

The most interesting part is the use of patrol stations as charging stations. Looks like a transformation which can not happen in developed world due to domination of Oil companies and Car manufacturers.

Electric car hits the road in fuel-starved Gaza
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-genius-helps-beseiged-city-survive-a-year-of-israels-blockade-846258.html

Silicon chips stretch into shape

Silicon chips can be starched find by US scientist. Is this is the possibility to use silicon chips in human body or other movable objects?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7313203.stm