Remember the old days? To get online, you needed a modem. (To show my age, I remember 110 baud!). Through the 80’s, we went from 1200 baud (1.2kb) to 56kb modem in the 90’s. Then came broadband. 512kb, 1.0mb and higher.
But it was still one data line for one computer.
Companies like Linksys and Netgear came [...]
Is personal aviation coming to your driveway?
As I approach the half-century mark, I have reason to be skeptical. Does anyone remember the jet pack, a la The Rocketeer? My point exactly. Really, I’d love to see science and technology meet transportation, but I think that there may be too many rules and regs that ground [...]
If you plan to go motoring around your town, you may be hopping into a Nissan Nuvu. In Paris, Nissan unveiled this new, zero-emissions vehicle with 2+1 seating. As peppy little ride, Nissan thinks that running into town for errands in a Nuvu may reshape you local Metroplolis.
Read more about the Nissan Nuvu EV at:
Paris [...]
Many traffic safety experts say that talking – or doing anything – while driving is unsafe.
Does that include your car talking to the traffic lights??
Audi is sponsoring a project called ‘Travolution’ in its home town of Ingolstadt, Germany. 46 traffic lights are ’smart lights’ that communicate with Audis equipped with the system. They are designed [...]
How many years have solar panels been in existence? According to BlurtIt.com, the first silicon solar cell was invented by Russell Ohl in 1941. For the next 67 years, solar cells have been soaking up visible light.
So, along comes a 12 year-old and asks ‘why does a solar cell only absorb visible light and not [...]





