Daily Archive for February 4th, 2008

Still sober

Bartender: “How you doing?”

Gogga: “Nah, I’m still sober, … but hey, it’s a Wednesday!”

IEEE on Dreams. Ironic! :)

So, IEEE Spectrum publishes an article on Dream Jobs in 2008.

It’s a short article and definitely deserves a read-through. Give it a shot, you’ll like it.

I like the story’s tag line:

Studying penguins in Antarctica, watching shooting stars in the South Pacific, tracking robots through the Amazon—yes, this is engineering

142 inch TVs…

Wow… They’re gonna start shipping 142 inch TVs based on PTAs (plasma tube arrays).

According to this article from Tech-On!:

To realize digital signage of more than 100 inches with current technologies, the following methods are possible: (1) projector, (2) LED display, (3) multi-vision LCD display and (4) PDP. However, Shinoda pointed out (1) has a low brightness, (2) has a low resolution and high cost, (3) has nondisplay areas between displays and (4) requires heavy equipment investments.

Gadget.com

Pretty cool domain, if you ask me.  Want to read about some cool new gadgets?  Check out Gadget.com :)

I hope they’ll keep up with the pace, but for now I’m bookmarking this site.

Google & Microsoft — teaming up on Drexel

So, the news have been floating around Drexel that Google is about to offer some Drexel-specific services to us the students.  Now I hear Microsoft is going to do something similar if not the same.

Good good!

According to this article by Philly Business Journal this is going to happen in March this year.  March is already almost here…  Cool!  How about free iPhones for everyone or something? :)