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T Graham

AFP: Taiwan unveils hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers - 0 views

  • Taiwanese researchers said Friday they have developed hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers
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      Hydrogen is a natural resource, it can be used over and over again. Hydrogen also doesn't give off any pollution in the air or give off any toxic waste.
  • "We will continue to improve the invention. We hope the hydrogen-powered device can replace current cell phone recharge systems in 2012."
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      Do they mean for all people who use cellphones, or just the users in Taiwan?
  • The charger will be key to the Taiwan government's endeavour of carving out a space for itself in future energy generation
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      Taiwan is mixing this technological move with its business endeavors and profit potential. This is mix of business and employment and environment.
Madeline Brownstone

UPN Repository - 0 views

  • Buying organizations, such as the US Department of Defense (DOD), require all manufacturers doing business with them to identify and bar code their products with the UPN. The objective is to make the UPN the single ordering number for medical/surgical products.
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    US Govt requires UPN to do business with them
Madeline Brownstone

RFID - The Technology - 1 views

  • Another form of tag is often called the smart label. This is really a paper (or similar material) label with printing, but also with an RFID tag embedded in it. Examples are shown below (with the antenna structure shown in the corner).
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    Basics on how RFID works\nALSO: RFID embedded in paper labels such as baggage tags
Madeline Brownstone

Shortcuts - Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends' Too - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Contact Scraping to build user base of Tagged.com
Madeline Brownstone

Business & Technology | UW team researches a future filled with RFID chips | Seattle Ti... - 2 views

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    Potentially a lead article. Needs to be checked further.
Madeline Brownstone

The Future Is Now For Virtual House Calls | Epicenter | Wired.com - 2 views

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    Interesting new technology for health care--check it out.
Jackie C

The pros and cons of distributed computing - by John Fagot - Helium - 0 views

  • However, whenever there is the possibility of doing the right thing to accomplish a good deed, there are always others who will use the same technology for evil.
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    The pros and cons of distributed computing
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    Supporting document for 11chenj. Botnets and distributed computing!
Mitchell Springer

The Precautionary Principle - A Realistic Solution to Cell Phone Radiation? - 0 views

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  • those who frequently use cell phones on a certain side of their head are 50% more likely than non-cell-phone-users to develop a tumor in the salivary gland on that side of the head.
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      people are frequently on their cell phones for many reasons and most of the time they have the cell phone on a specific side of their head without the knowledge of the radition coming from the cell phone can be harmful to their body
  • the precautionary principle suggests practices such as using a wired headset instead of a Bluetooth earpiece, and enabling the speaker function rather than holding the phone to your ear. In addition, rather than storing the cell phone in your pocket, keep the phone away from your body between calls. Paramount to the precautionary principle is to limit the use of cell phones whenever possible. Make fewer calls and make shorter ones. Choose a cell phone with low-radiation and limit children's cell phone usage, since their brain cells may be more sensitive to the effects of cell phone radiation.
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      suggested solutions are that wired headset to be used over bluetooth earpiece, placing the phone on speaker when in a call, keep the phone away form the body in between calls, give childreen cell phone that emitt low-radiation and limit their cell phone usage since their brain cells are more senstitive to the radiation effects at a young age
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  • Cell phones and other hand held devices are rapidly becoming a part of our culture. Cell phones are everywhere. They are used by 87 percent of Americans and over 4 billion people worldwide. Students in high school and now even grade school children are using cell phones to talk to each other, and text messaging has become a social norm. We are addicted to cell phones.
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      introducing cell phones to younger children can create a risk factor on their health in the future. since they would want to be more so engaged with the cell phone now that they obtain one, the radiation will spill out faster onto them and it may have a greater effect on the body than to an older person
  • New technologies are emerging to shield the electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted from cell phones and other electronic devices. Certain chips can be attached to cell phones and earpieces to counteract the EMR, and special paint coated on your walls can limit EMR from adjacent apartments seeping into yours. These shields may help you if you stay behind them. Those who like to roam can wear special headbands, clothing, hats, gloves, and pendants designed to protect the wearer against radiofrequencies and EMR
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      cell phone accessories can be used to help prevent the EMR (elecrtomagnetic radiation) from being emitted from the cell phone onto the users body
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    i claim this article in the name of the father, the holy ghost, the mitchell and the springer
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    Research for Criterion D--evaluate the solution
Madeline Brownstone

U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran | Industries | Technology, Media & Te... - 3 views

  • Twitter and Facebook have been used as a tool by many young people to coordinate protests over the election's outcome.
  • The State Department declined to give immediate details of the contact with Twitter, which has been used particularly by young urban Iranians who are disputing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election last Friday.
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      Stakeholders are the protesters in Iran
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      AND, the US State Deparment revealed the stake they had in this communications tool.
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    Who would think that the US State Deparment would be interested in Twitter's downtime?
Madeline Brownstone

The virtual doctor visit: Health monitoring at home - washingtonpost.com - 2 views

  • Right now, the biggest impediment to high-tech monitoring is that Medicare and private insurers generally do not reimburse for it. And the devices can be expensive. As part of a pilot project, Juanita and Arthur Wood get their devices for free; normally patients would have to pay about $100 a month to rent them.
    • Madeline Brownstone
       
      Equality of access seems to be the only issue here. And, what are the impacts of that? Can that be determined? Is there evidence in this article?
  • Eric Dishman, general manager of Intel's Research and Innovation Group, said these devices perform an increasingly important function: "You just can't crank out enough medical students to solve our personnel shortage in this country. You need to rely on other means, especially technology, to bridge that gap."
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      The issue of people relying on machines to do what was previously done by human contact is clearly coming through here.
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    Right now, the biggest impediment to high-tech monitoring is that Medicare and private insurers generally do not reimburse for it. And the devices can be expensive. As part of a pilot project, Juanita and Arthur Wood get their devices for free; normally patients would have to pay about $100 a month to rent them.
Madeline Brownstone

More senior surfers going online - thestar.com - 0 views

  • The technological revolution among seniors hasn't been all smooth sailing, especially for smaller long-term care homes. Despite growing demand for high-speed Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity, many are too cash-strapped to retrofit old buildings for somewhat limited use.
    • Madeline Brownstone
       
      Seems like an equality of access issue here.
Madeline Brownstone

BBC News - Games 'permit' virtual war crimes - 0 views

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    ""Thus," said the report, "the line between the virtual and real experience becomes blurred and the game becomes a simulation of real-life situations on the battlefield." "
Madeline Brownstone

BBC News - Schools play to virtual orchestra - 1 views

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    "Pupils in North Yorkshire have jammed with one of the UK's leading orchestras, thanks to high-speed broadband lines. The video-linked music workshop over 10Mbps (megabits per second) connections provided sessions with the Southbank Sinfonia. The project was organised by NYnet, which has set up high-speed broadband in the area. "
Madeline Brownstone

BBC News - Opera web browser 'censors' Chinese content - 0 views

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    "Previously traffic ran over Opera servers bypassing the so-called Great Firewall of China, making the browser popular with Chinese users. "
Jaymee C

Ethical and moral issues regarding artificial intelligence - AI - Links999. - 2 views

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    This article discusses the ethical and moral issues related to artificial intelligence in the area of people and machines. One of these issues has to do with the issue of those in poverty who are denied a job because of the advances in technology. So the stakeholders include common people (especially the poor), manufacturers of AI, the designers of them and the businesses that use them. AI can be used virtually anywhere from factories to game shows and that threatens the role of some human beings. Some robots take the place of doing simple jobs but those who can't afford an education, in a way need those jobs. Many of the poor don't have the right education to suddenly become technicians for the robots that replaced them so they're out of jobs. There is also the issue of how to create a robot that mimics a human being. This creates issues because all of us have different ethical and religious standings, creating a robot to mimic us would create more issues in the human world because it would be going against some and supporting others. But if someone was trying to create the perfect human then it would be God-like and that would be an issue in itself.
Olivia M

In Japan, Machines for Work and Play Are Idle - 3 views

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    The stakeholders are customers, human workers, factories and big product companies. The social ethical issue is reliability. The scenario is robots used in business. The IT system is factory robots. The issue here is that due to lack of money, robots cannot be used in factories which will lower the amount of products made.
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    It is important to fully examine the issue of reliability in this context. When using artificial intelligence in the factory workplace, those installing the robots must be mindful of the possibility that the robot will not be reliable. Reliability, therefore must be tested extensively to make sure that it is fairly high.
Kristin O

Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling - 6 views

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    This article starts out with a scenario about a professional online poker player figuring out that he was actually playing against a bot, which is designed to beat its opponents against all odds. There area of impact of this article can be arts entertatinment and leisure because the players do play for money and compete with one another online. This is from the point of view from the players however it can be also seen as business and employment because bots are being sold on line to do this specific task and to win earnings for whoever has paid for them. The Social and ethical issues here can be Security when looking at it from the point of view of the poker site owner, they are supposed to try and root out any bots to make online playing fair for everyone else. People and Machines can also be applied here because the bots are taking something that is meant for recreation by humans and extending their faculties but to the extent of not playing by the rules and playing an unfair game with some one else. The stakeholders of this issue are the online poker players, the people who own the poker playing website and the people who sell and use the poker bots. The IT system referred to in the article are the bots.
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    I found this article really interesting because I had not thought about it at all. This is an important case to pay attention to because of the fact that machines are taking over another aspect of the human life. Not only are machines capable of replacing jobs, such as the repetitive ones in factories, but they are also able to take away the fun in gambling. They are also bending the rules and creating an unfair environment for gamblers on the Internet.
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    This article piqued my interest because it made me think about my own article in a broader way. My article talked about the issue of artificial intelligence talking menial and low skill jobs from people. This article attracted me because it show AI used in another way to make money for people. It takes what is mentioned in my article and extends it to another dimension. People are using these bots to actually make money by competing against human competitors but this is occurring to players unsuspecting players, technically this is using advanced technology to steal.
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