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Pico Projector Info is the web’s leading resource on Pico Projectors. These projectors are small enough to be embedded in mobile phones and other devices, and are becoming more and more popular. Our site brings you daily news, projector resources, an on-line shop and more!

Skiff e-reader from Hearst Publications. New e-reader, using e-ink (electronic ink) technology being introduced at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas this week (January 2010). Fantastic device: flexible touch display, USB interface, audio, full-page-sized, and wireless (Sprint + WiFi).

Coupled with the publication library (newspapers, magazines) that Hearst can get, this is a really exciting entrant into the field of e-readers. Pricing and availability is still pending.

Education and Volunteer Projects for Texas Master Naturalists and Community Members Inspired by Nature: The Texas Master Naturalist Heartwood Chapter, based in Montgomery County, is a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to training and organizing volunteers inspired by nature. We use lectures, printed materials, field observations, and community volunteer projects to pursue our mission. (more…)

Augmented Reality Could Be Coming to Your Contact Lens: When you drive your car your dashboard instruments display the speed, amount of fuel left, and distance traveled. You can use Google Maps on your smart phone to find restaurants, post offices, or other important landmarks all around you. Why can’t this sort of information be given to you all the time, streaming directly into your field of vision on a contact lens? That’s the question University of Washington Prof. Babak A. Parviz asks in his recent letter to IEEE Spectrum. (more…)

Organovo: Regenerative medicine is a rapidly advancing field that has the potential to transform human health care. The potential now exists to develop tissue engineered constructs for tissue repair and organ replacement. The US Dept. of Health and Human Services predicts that “within 20 years regenerative medicine will be the standard of care for replacing all tissue/organ systems in the body in addition to extensive industrial use for pharmaceutical testing.” (more…)

LTE Connected Car - Soon the must-have option for new cars won’t be a sunroof or leather seats—it will be ultra high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity that revolutionizes the in-vehicle experience for drivers and passengers. Within the LTE Connected Car, consumers will be able to access network- and cloud-based applications that put on-demand entertainment, infotainment, diagnostics, navigation and much more at their fingertips. (more…)

Tac-Eye LT Microdisplay w/sunglasses – Designed with the mobile user in mind, this sunglass mounted display is lightweight, low profile, and high resolution. Its high-contrast SVGA (800×600) display is perfect for displaying images from a wearable computer, laptop, vehicle mounted computer system, security cameras, or any other video source. Combined with some of the new Ultra Mobile PCs, you now have access to one of the lightest, rugged wearable computers systems ever built. (more…)

This past Saturday I participated in the annual Houston AIR competition. The purpose of the competition is to produce a web-accessible website FROM SCRATCH in 8 hours. Our team was a “family affair”: my sister Sarah, brother-in-law John, brother of brother-in-law Stephen, and myself.

See the Houston AIR writeup for details.

Our team’s effort was for a local nonprofit called the “Frost Town Conservancy” who work on the maintenance of a Houston historical landmark (the McKee street bridge and park).

• Original website
• Our reworked site (design and accessible version)

Pods is a CMS framework for WordPress. It’s a plugin that sits on top of WordPress, allowing you to add and display your own content types.
These content types, or “pods”, are totally separate from Posts, Pages, or Custom Fields. The Pods plugin uses its own database structure for maximum efficiency, and for relationships among items.

The Esperanza Project is many things at once: It’s an online newspaper, it’s a networking tool and it’s a digital media empowerment and networking project for a sustainable future. It’s about a journey, but it’s also about being deeply rooted in whatever corner of the planet you find yourself, and making it the best that it can be. (more…)

ECMHUB.org - the home page for the ECMINSTITUTE – provides 40 industry specific communities with daily feeds of over 5,000 articles including blogs, news, webcasts, events, discussions, videos, and RFPs. The website v2.0 incorporates emerging cloud and mashup technologies to deliver a single-page, single-click access to all the latest news and information within the content management industry. (more…)

Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It builds on several contributed code bases (nWidgets, Burstlib, f(m)), which is why we refer to it sometimes as a “unified” toolkit. Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application development. (more…)

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Open-source camera could revolutionize photography : Stanford scientists’ open-source camera could change photography by giving programmers anywhere the power to change camera features and create new possibilities.

Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks. (more…)

acrossair | New York Nearest Subway Augmented Reality iPhone 3GS App :  One of the first augmented reality apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore. Forget boring 2D tube maps! Try this amazing new application that tells New Yorkers where their nearest subway station is via their iPhones video function.

lifeClipper2 : LifeClipper2 is a cutting-edge research project in design at the Academy of Art and Design (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland). Its aim is to explore the potential of „Augmented Reality“ for project visualization, urban planning and tourism in close collaboration with research partners and commercial partners.

Rosetta@home needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don’t need it you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn’t possibly attempt without your help. (more…)

O’Reilly Radar Awesome continuing blog about All Things Technical, including some really incisive articles on a wide range of topics. From their “About” section:

O’Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what’s new and interesting in the world of technology. We have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history.

Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about.

Beloit College Mindset List This is the 12th year that Beloit College has assembled these observations that help to identify the experiences that have shaped the lives—and formed the mindset—of students starting their post-secondary education this fall. (more…)

What is Truehome™?

A fun, insightful journey to your ideal home: The Exercises and organizational tools in six ascending “Steps” combine neuroscience, architecture, and lifestyle analysis to enable you to identify, organize, prioritize, and communicate every detail of your perfect living space. (more…)

Geospatial Experts: GPS photo mapping software. What started as the winning script software in a contest has turned into a company that is the world-wide leader in photo mapping software for business. (more…)