Today I came across bleeding edge research of the year 2009 - Pranav Mistri's "sixth sense". It's a simple, wearable device that enhances the real world with digital information.
Great to see future developments in this area..
"Two scientists whose work made possible the development of the iPod and powerful laptop computers were rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Albert Fert, a Frenchman, and Peter Grünberg, a German, have been jointly honoured for creating the technology used to read data on hard disks."
From the article on Timesonline: here
The Google Singleton Detector, or GSD, is a tool which analyzes Java bytecode and detects the use of four different types of global state, including singletons, hingletons, mingletons and fingletons. Then it outputs a graph with all these different types of static state highlighted, and shows all the classes that are directly dependent on them. The point of this tool is to allow you to see all of the uses of global state inside a project, as well as how they are all interrelated.
Worth to give a look here.
Accoding to this article in the Arizona Daily Star the new generation of multi-core CPU's poses a daunting challenge to the software industry.
Give a view to this article.
Today I came across Google Reader, a new feature introduced by Google. I really found it very useful.
It's really cool as you can remain updated with your favorite websites/forums/blogs just like checking your email. It constantly checks your favorite sites and blogs for new content, so that you don't have to visit each & every website for new content.
Nice innovation :)
The software giant has built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.
Take a look...
