Watson

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Watson is a PC that IBM had created to compete on jeopardy. Watson had competed recently and actually did pretty good. He had came in second place. Then from what IBM has said so far, it seems Watson's life is about to get considerably less glamorous. The computer's DeepQA software is intended to be used by businesses to offer help desks for customers.From what IBM has said so far, it seems Watson's life is about to get considerably less glamorous. The computer's DeepQA software is intended to be used by businesses to offer help desks for customers.

Ferris Bueller

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Ferris and his friends skip school and find themselves attending an afternoon Cubs game. In the clip, Broderick(Ferris Bueller) actually catches a foul ball from his field-level seat near the left field foul pole. Fans of the movie have questioned the movie and have speculation that Bueller was actually at a real cubs game because of its real feeling. Watch the video on top of this page.

The Smallest Computing Systems Yet

A team led by Charles Lieber, a professor of chemistry at Harvard, and Shamik Das, lead engineer in MITRE's nanosystems group, has designed and built a reprogrammable circuit out of nanowire transistors. Several tiles wired together would make the first scalable nanowire computer, says Lieber. Such a device could run inside microscopic, implantable biosensors, and ultra-low-power environmental or structural sensors, say the researchers there have been doubts about the practicality of nanowires and nanotubes as actual computing systems. "There had been little progress in terms of increasing the complexity of circuits," says Lieber.The researchers made a single tile, with an area of 960 square microns containing 496 functional transistors. It is designed to wire to other tiles so that the transistors, in aggregate, could act as complex logic gates for processing or memory.

Emerging Technology: Give your Dashboard the Finger

A new emerging technology is being developed for drivers to use their dashboard without taking their hands off the wheel and keeping their eyes on the road. They are still in the prototype interphase which uses several sensors to detect the movement of the right index finger as it disrupts an electric field. This project was based on a musical instrument that can be played without being touched. There are electromagnetic sensors located on the dashboard that detect finger movements which allows the driver to hold the wheel in a recommended ten to two position. Researchers used car stimulator and glued antennas on the dashboard right behind the wheel.The system so far has an 86% accuracy for 10 gesture movements. They also will add a speech recognition to allow people to dictate text messages in the car but they don't want to encourage drivers to do anything else other then drive.

A new computer program has been made to satisfy people. the new 3D HD computer monitors and the new program 3D vision letting the people able to play there new favorite 3D games on the computer. This will be a new stage in technology making games more life like and realistic.

This video is about the new game being released soon called homefront. The Japanese have taken over and you have to get your country back.

Solar Powered Android Phone

The Chinese phone maker, Umeox mobile is working on a solar powered cell phone for the user that is usually away from an electrical outlet. It will be available for use in the United States and Europe. Too bad it'll take 17 hours for a dead battery to fully charge ! ! ! ! Unfortunately, there has not been much success inthe past with solar powered phones. For example, have you ever heard of the Digicel Coral-200-Solar phone? Probably not. Even popular brands like Samsung have tried it and failed.

The concept is brilliant if it can be perfected. For example, a 17 hour charge is ridiculous, thats more than half a day! Because it is an Android phone, apps will most likely increase usage time and run the battery down quickly. An option to charge from a wall as well was not mentioned but would certainly increase the phones value

Mineral Shows Electronic Properties

So I found out that there is a mineral called Molybdnite. It's used as a lubricant but is now showing extraordinary electronic characteristics when in two-dimensional strips.Researchers in Switzerland found this out.This minerals is a semiconductor which means it provides discrete energy levels for electrons to jump through—a property known as its bandgap. I think that this might save us energy in many ways hopefully.