Archive for the category "Innovative"
15th August 2011 Recently, I may well expect me to be the proud owners of a "smartphone" (no, not an iPhone, because I Apple's rigid corporate policies and their hardware monopoly does not want to support yet).
Frankly, I am dumbfounded, what has happened in recent years in the field of mobile communications. My phone is actually mutate into a portable mini office with a range of functions, of which I as a journalist recently, hardly daring to dream: e-mails and send rechechieren the Internet, a news reader to subscribe to read e-books, make high-resolution photos and movies plan routes and navigate through the country (and even with so-called augmented reality apps), using social networks and messengers such as Skype, online banking on the move, documents and even barcode scan for product identification, and even voice and music recognition is now possible with a surprisingly high hit rate (one SMS is extremely useful to dictate) - and, believe it or not: Telephoning can with this thing too. All this at last with a single small unit, at affordable prices. My joy was huge at the beginning.
But then came the sobering realization: The thing is that is a catch. Not to say, a giant hook. read more of this entry »
11th May 2010 While Germany and Europe's economies were seemingly on the precipice, are falling over themselves to innovation fairs, workshops and inventor of the events in designer bars. A technological sensation follows the next. Crisis or not, man shows once again that he is true to the emergency services in the master registry.
Recently showed developers from Switzerland, that it was still the spearhead global engineering count. of this entry »
21st May 2009 In the major sectors of the economy for decades, true innovations are nil; supposedly new products introduced merely variations or modifications are technologies already on the market, I read the other day and had to - have to agree - as far as possible. It should really be questioned again, why has electricity, light bulbs, steam engine, car radio and nothing essentially new more developed? Do we really want an inventor, just here in the (former) country of poets and thinkers? Have we become sluggish and lazy?
Or is it more like the market power of large companies? And why should CEOs plunge into larger investments, as long as the "cash cow" still makes milk? read more of this entry »
25th April 2009 Water as a potential energy source - is what we reported in the current zeitgeist-Print Issue 1-2009 (the Post, in a long version also available online be read). There are science journalists from Haiko Lietz specifically presented two methods, which are considered in the broadest sense to the so-called "free energy" Cold Fusion and BlackLight Power. First-especially (now referred to as "Low Energy Nuclear Reactions") could soon, as anticipated in the article, obtain a real breakthrough. read more of this entry »
18th April 2009 Until recently it was thought the term "internet censorship" only to China. Now one dares to attack the West, and indeed a significant, with Sarkozy as the spearhead: French Prime Minister wants to "Data suckers" hats like the best network connection - to the delight of the music industry. The French parliament, however, gave the vanguard once rebuffed.
In this country wants to "Big Brother" now more than just a voice. Last Friday, five major Internet provider (Alice / Hansenet, German Telekom, Germany Cable, Telefonica/O2 and Vodafone / Arcor) at the instance of family minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) signed an agreement that they are based on black lists of the Federal Criminal soon Page requests are to prevent child pornography. For the stray surfer then become a red stop sign or a similar warning to be seen.
Christian Bahls, founder of the "victims of abuse against Internet blocking" and former victims of sexual assault shows, disappointed by the over zealous politician. "I feel in the debate for a political goal abused," he explained to Gulli.com . Is perhaps even courted with such sensitive matter to voters favor? of this entry »
28th January 2009 Last night it succeeded to a post-ARTE, bind to my attention longer. On display were two young and graceful French, who led an amazingly profound conversation about mixing. One of them, invited as a guest, was the author Vincent Cespedes, the other, the interviewer and host of the series, Raphael Enthoven.
They stretched the bow of our multicultural society ("mixing takes place only when identity changes") on mass psychology and manipulation (using the example of the election of French President Sarkozy, in a social mixing was not spontaneous, but was organized this entry »
