Computer

Microsoft reading your mind!

by Haitham Sabbah October 18, 2007

“Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” Microsoft says. The company is not happy with evaluating human response while they interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers, so, they wants to read the data straight from your brain as [...]

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Google Talk!

by Haitham Sabbah August 24, 2005

Yes, it’s Google’s own instant messaging system, for text and also voice communications. Google Talk goes beyond text-based instant messaging using a computer keyboard to let users hold voice conversations with other computer users. If confirmed, the combined computer text and voice-calling service would put Google in competition with a similar service pioneered by Skype, [...]

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Pocket-sized computer ‘soul’ developed

by Haitham Sabbah August 13, 2005

Personal computers could soon fit entirely on a key ring. Researchers at IBM have developed a way to carry a powerful, personalised virtual computer from one PC to the next, without losing the user�s work. The trick is to store the virtual computer on a USB key, or any portable device with substantial storage space, [...]

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Thumb Drives

by Haitham Sabbah June 22, 2005

Thumb Drives: If you’re going to get yourself one of those fancy things, you may as well get one that actually looks like a thumb.

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Matrix and Brain Downloads

by Haitham Sabbah June 7, 2005

A couple of months ago, the Japanese entertainment giant Sony has patented an idea for transmitting data directly into the brain, with the goal of enabling a person to see movies and play video games in which they smell, taste and perhaps even feel things, it was reported today. That sounded science fiction? Today I [...]

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Ayatollah Fatwa Online!

by Haitham Sabbah June 2, 2005

Want to have breast implants but worried they may not be so pleasing to God? Wondering if the marketing campaign devised to boost your business is spiritually sound? If you are a Shia looking for guidance, what you may find useful is your very own online ayatollah – a sort of electronic agony aunt with [...]

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This World is but a Canvas to our Imagination

by Haitham Sabbah May 10, 2005

This year, Computerlove.net invites artists to interpret the theme of “Geography and Information” in any style of visual language to express and reflect their personal feelings… Finalists’ Gallery See also this amazing ‘WORLDPROCESSOR’.

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MikroSoft DealeR

by Haitham Sabbah December 14, 2004

Abu Mahjoob way of ” Why buy when you can steal?”

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Paralysed man sends e-mail by thought

by Haitham Sabbah October 17, 2004

An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested in humans so far. In June 2004, surgeons implanted a device containing 100 electrodes into the motor [...]

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Watchful Watch

by Haitham Sabbah October 10, 2004

In the not-so-distant future, your wristwatch could stop you if you try to run out the door without the necessities you need for the day, like your keys, wallet or cell phone. At work, it could prompt you for important items needed for a meeting or a business lunch. In an academic setting, it could [...]

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Kitty

by Haitham Sabbah October 2, 2004

KITTY, a finger-mounted keyboard for data entry into PDA’s, Pocket PC’s and Wearable Computers which has been developed here at the University of California in Irvine. KITTY was one of this years ISWC (Int. Symposium on Wearable Computers) Wearable Fashion Show main features (see here). KITTY, an acronym for Keyboard-Independent Touch-TYping, is a fingermounted keyboard [...]

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Computerising The Body

by Haitham Sabbah July 6, 2004

Microsoft wins patent to exploit network potential of skin. Fact or fiction – carrying a keyboard on your arm. Call it the ultimate wireless network. From the ends of your fingers to the tips of your toes, the human body is a moving, throbbing collection of tubes and tunnels, filled with salty water and all [...]

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Physicists reveal first “nanoflowers”

by Haitham Sabbah June 26, 2004

Would You Like a Bouquet of Nanoflowers? Today the Institute of Physics releases some of the most beautiful science images of the year so far, a collection of photomicrographs of tiny “flowers” and “trees” less than one thousandth the width of a human hair. The images are published in the Institute journal Nanotechnology. These stunning [...]

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Full-Featured PC Fits in Pocket

by Haitham Sabbah October 28, 2003

A full-featured PC that is small enough to slip into a shirt pocket is being hailed by its makers as the world’s first modular computer. The machine can perform as both a PC and a handheld computer, but it remains to be seen if consumers are willing to pay for such a hybrid device. The [...]

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The Unlikely Human Frankenstein

by Haitham Sabbah October 27, 2003

Chicago researchers at Northwestern University have fused the brain stem of an eel to a robot the size of a dollar coin, creating a crude cyborg, or cybernetic organism. Kept alive in a saline solution, the brain adapts to changing light conditions and directs the robotic wheels to move towards light beams like a bull [...]

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