Friday, June 15, 2007

Pabugs writes with a CNN story about an uncomfortable development in world politics and information technology. According to General Robert Elder, an Air Force military man setting up a ‘cyber command’ in Louisiana’s Barksdale Air Force Base, the nation of China is already in the process of developing their own ‘cyber warfare’ techniques. While Elder [...]

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Billosaur writes "New Scientist Tech has an intriguing article about researchers at Rice University in Houston, TX who are looking at ways to use the human skeleton to transmit data. The idea is to use bones to conduct sound waves, with 0′s and 1′s being represented by different frequencies. Preliminary results, shared with a conference [...]

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brownsteve writes "Eastman Kodak Co. has unveiled what it says are ‘next-generation color filter patterns’ designed to more than double the light sensitivity of CMOS or CCD image sensors used in camera phones or digital still cameras. The new color filter system is a departure from the widely used standard Bayer pattern — an arrangement [...]

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