popularmechanics.com — "Scientific and technological breakthroughs can take years to develop, but when they leave the lab and enter the world at large, word spreads quickly. Here's a look at the advances you'll be hearing about in the coming year." Including technologies such as IPTV and Ajax.
Jan 13, 2006 View in Crawl 4
nogg3r5Jan 14, 2006
**turns into a 5 year old**urgh he linked to slashdot, burn him at teh stake, for he is a fuxxor
captaingsJan 14, 2006
I dig'd this story! IPTV stirs my geek imagination -- I'm working on a mythtv box as we speak :DBut seriously, "Metadata" as a new concept for this year?? I'm going to announce that file headers are a new concept this year too --- just because most people don't realize it's there doesn't mean it should be held up as new. I just don't understand why anyone that isn't already accustomed to metadata, will have to do so just this year.
absurdistJan 14, 2006
Screw AJAX. Screw Flash Memory.The day my car starts telling me how to drive is the day I take a 200 watt soldering gun to its CPU.
yoshisushiJan 14, 2006
Perpendicular Storage? The smaller Toshiba drives already have this.
h0dg3sJan 15, 2006
Metadata: why would anyone aside from programmers care about that?"It won't be easy--or cheap--to establish a secure, nationwide networkthat puts test results and prescriptions online, and allows nationaldisease trends to be tracked."Why not? Any techy could set it up pretty cheap. Is this just a way for the techies to exploit more money for themselves that should be used in office equipment?"Hitachi estimates that by the end of the decade, perpendicular drives could store 10 times more data than today's drives."That's great but the title is 15 terms you'll need to know by 2006, not by the end of the century.PRESOLAR INTERSTELLAR GRAINSHonestly... Who cares?FIBER-TO-THE-HOMEYes, please.BLIND-SPOT DETECTIONLast I heard they were called rear-view mirrors. Properly adjusted, you will have no blind spot.Pedestrian Protection System (PPS) " if you smack a pedestrian, the hood is automatically raised to cushion his landing on the engine block"Uh...I'd rather land on a hood than an engine block any day....
zenghostJan 15, 2006
fiber-to-home will be great. i can't wait.
bitswapperJan 15, 2006
"Fiber to the home has been available for half a decade even in tiny villages in the middle of nowhere in northern Sweden (Västerbotten County), where the population density is 5 people/sq km on avarage. It costs about $20 per month."Hmm. What's it take to become a citizen of Sweden?