Show Notes For TechReport Episodes

Episode 1:

- Ford's first ever dashboard computer

- New touchscreen phone, Palm Pre- www.palm.com

- Window 7- www.microsoft.com/window/window-7

Episode 2:

- Sony Ericson Cybershot smart phone

- W508 smart phone

- BlackBerry Curve 8900 smart phone

- USE63 smart phone

- Motosurf A3100

Episode 3:

-Nicholas Morgan's new cheap solar concentrator

-Ten terabits in one square inch!

Episode 4:

- Georgia Tech's new nanogenerator

- SanDisk makes a fingernail sized memory card that holds up to 64 gigabits of memory

Episode 5:

- Power Pack (a fuel cell made by Medis) is as small as a bar of soap- www.medistechnologies.com

- Abu Dhabi begins construction of their entirely green city.

Eden Pure

Bose Speakers

Tomato "juice"

A new way to get energy...

...not really

The evolution of MacBooks

The iPods

Here are two pictures I took using a white backdrop. It's harder than it looks.

Aging Solutions In Moles

People have been trying to slow aging for years. Now scientists think they may have a lead. Mole rats are the longest living rodents on earth; they can live up to 30 years, when normal rodents (such as rats and mice) only live a few years. Scientists believe that by studying these creatures they might be able to produce some kind of medication that can slow aging in humans. Moles, despite their wrinkled and decrepit look, are actually very health animals, and rarely get diseases. This makes them an even better candidate in age-slowing research.

Air Hybrid

Engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have just designed a new kind of hybrid car. This hybrid is not like any other hybrid ever created. Breaking out of the mold of the normal gas/electric hybrid, the engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have designed the first ever gas/air hybrid. There are many benefits with this new hybrid technology, but the largest benefit of the gas/air hybrid is probably that it saves as much gas as normal gas/electric hybrids, but at a fraction of the cost. Testing for the vehicle will begin in April.

Healing Laser

Physicists at Tel Aviv University, located in Israel, have made a remarkable breakthrough in medical technology. They have just invented a laser that can seal shut deep cuts and wounds that would other wise need stitches. Doctors and scientists say that this method of healing is much more reliable and faster than ordinary stitches. Experiments on real patients in Israeli operating rooms have proven successful. Their wounds healed faster and with less scarring. Avraham Katzir, head of Applied Physics at Tel Aviv University, said that this method of healing could also be used in keyhole surgery to seal internal wounds instead of needing to make large invasive incisions on the body.

Memory Drug

Everybody has bad memories they want to forget about past. Imagine being able to take a pill erase those memories from your brain permanently! A group of Dutch researchers have announced that they can do just that. However their not sure yet if the pill erases your memories forever or just temporarily. There are still many questions being asked about the drug and it is not out on the market yet.

Presidential BlackBerry

Despite warnings from his advisors, President Obama apparently keeps all of his schedules and plans on his BlackBerry. This has made his BlackBerry a kind of "Holy Grail" for hackers. Hacking into the president's phone is not as easy as it sounds however. President Obama's BlackBerry runs a special super-encrypting software that makes it almost un-hackable. Mitnick, the world's best x-hacker, says that it's a long shot, but it is possible to hack Obama's BlackBerry. 

Technologyreview.com

Here's a link to a cool tech review website I found- http://www.technologyreview.com/

PowerMeter

Another cool new release by Google just came out- PowerMeter. PowerMeter is an online dashboard that is designed to download data from smart meters and display current electricity use and show how much power your refrigerator, big-screen television and other appliances are using at any point in time. The handy thing about PowerMeter is that it gives the user more control over their household electricity, and thus allows them better control over how much they're spending.

Ford's Future Electrical Cars

Ford has announced that they will release the first ever fully electrical van in 2010. The car will be called the Transit Connect. It is going to be a small van and it will be able to get 100 miles on a fully charged battery. Ford said that the car is intended for business owners and not families. Ford's "electrical" plans also involve the creation of a small, battery-powered car, advanced hybrid cars, and plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2011 and 2012.

If you want to read more about Ford's electrical cars for the future then go to- http://www.mpgomatic.com/2009/01/22/ford-electric-cars/

TechReport Podcasts

Here are the links to two podcast I have made about new technology. The first one is about a month old. The second one is as old as this post.

http://skateboardguy106.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-01-14T16_49_55-08_00
http://skateboardguy106.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-02-04T21_00_48-08_00

Google Latitude

Another cool new release from Google just came out today- Google Latitude. Google Latitude is a very handy program that you can install into your phone or computer. What the program does is it allows you to see where your friends or family are (as long as they also have the program installed) where ever they go. The program uses GPS to track the phones belonging to the people you want to find. Of course the people on the other end of the phone have to give their consent to let you to see where they are, which is why the program is meant mainly for friends and family.

To see more about Google Latitude go to- 

http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html

Google Oceans

Google has made some amazing breakthroughs in cyber technology through the years, and now Google is doing it again. Google has just come out with new computer software that virtually lets you explore the any part of the ocean you want. The program has many features- it has an accurate layout of the ocean floor that you can move around on, it has links that you can click on to see information about something that happened at certain locations, and it even has a touring feature that you can use to follow the path of sharks and other marine animals. This program has many more features that you can check out at- http://earth.google.com/ocean/