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'Opto-chip' Could Revolutionise Telecommunications
News Dalton even predicts that this could result in immaculate holographic images similar to those on the Star-Trek. Go to Rupert Goodwins 'Millennium technologies' Broadband roundup at AnchorDesk UK. An "opto-chip" could revolutionise Internet surfing...
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
IDF: Intel Sneaks A Peek At New Tech
News Fri 13 Sep: Star Trek's William Shatner was a featured speaker for Intel's peek at its future. Rupert Goodwins is exploring IDF for ZDNet UK -- click here to see some of his favourite gadgets from the show so far, and see the moment when Rupert got...
[September 10, 2002, 12:02]
MP3: You Can't Stop The Music ...
News MPEG-2 AAC continued the trek toward providing digital-audio users with high-quality encoding and a small file size. Go to Rupert Goodwins MP3 technology roundup at AnchorDesk UK. The reason is simple: MP3 dramatically reduces file size with only a...
[April 10, 2000, 8:26]
XG, XMax, Xetera...
Blog Most current state of the art modulation schemes get pretty close: xG says it is thousands of times better than the current state of the art, which puts it firmly over the other side of the curve and into Star Trek territory.
[August 16, 2007, 19:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 23/09/2004Jetlagged and jagged, I turn up at Waterloo Station to trek down to Havant, where a chunk of IBM has recently transmogrified into Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Keen to let the world know that it's not just another company...
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 24/02/2003Ah, Star Trek. As the old joke has it -- how come whenever they boldy go where no man has gone before, there's always someone there? But it's getting like that down here on Earth. Once upon a time, when friends departed for a year...
[February 28, 2003, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Star Trek:TNG. Wednesday 19/10/2005 The generation game is much loved by marketers. Pepsi, the drink of the next generation. G phones. Ah yes, the phones. I don't remember anyone calling GSM phones 2G, although they were: 3G makes sense, and by the...
[October 24, 2005, 13:05]
Thursday
Blog It soon gets hysterical, with Star Trek digs mixed in with Shatner's stream of consciousness take on technology ("I know nothing about anything. Thursday 12/09/2002Mere words can't do justice to Thursday.
[September 13, 2002, 18:02]
Tuesday: Technology Tour
Blog They are attended by Citrixians, who wear the show uniform of red sports shirt and black trousers -- the effect is startlingly like a Star Trek convention entirely populated by Ensign Smiths, the hapless security bod who gets beamed down in order...
[May 16, 2003, 17:59]
Apple IPhone - What's Behind The Curtain?
Blog It's got the iPod magic touch; the only reason you never saw this on Star Trek is because in the future, people won't be as smart as Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, CBE. It's still good to know that the Jobs Unreality Field can operate cross-planet.
[January 9, 2007, 22:36]
Apple 1 Goes Up For Auction
News Apple did market five games at $5 a pop, including Star Trek, Mastermind and Lunar Lander, but none are included in the current bundle. It might not look like much of a bargain, but for the price of a top-end BMW you could be the proud owner of a...
[April 17, 2002, 12:01]
Ginger Launch Takes Hype Biscuit
News But while inventor Dean Kamen kept absolutely silent for years about what It actually was, speculation ranged from jetpacks to groundbreaking engines, even as far as anti-gravity devices and Star Trek transporter beams.
[December 4, 2001, 14:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The climate is conducive and the woodlands plentiful, so the local longhairs trek out into the forest, sow their seeds and return some months later to harvest the illicit wares. I don't understand markets.
[January 24, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Butterfly Net gets going today: it uses the Globus system to provide a robust, cheap and powerful set of tools for what they call massive multiplayer games, thousands of players in shared environments, hacking and slaying, firing their laser...
[May 29, 2002, 15:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That the core beliefs are astounding, sub-Star Trek nonsense is thus kept secret until you've already invested so much that you HAVE to believe. Thursday 21/03/2002 The Beasts of Midian are prowling round and round again.
[March 26, 2002, 10:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now, I'm not sure that the overlap between open-source developers and Star Trek fans is exactly 100 percent, but it's always been a fact that the Starship Enterprise runs on some derivative of Unix -- a fact so obvious that it never needed to be...
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The last echo of that was in the Star Trek joke that Shakespeare was best in the original Klingon: these days we're all pally, so we allow each other these little foibles while secretly knowing that our guy was really the first.
[November 26, 2004, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It may sound like Star Trek, but people are doing it and it seems to work. Monday 27/10/2004 Primed by an exciting story in Spectrum, the online newsletter of the IEEE, I'm off sniffing out stories about odd power sources.
[October 1, 2004, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog All Star Trek fans know what that means — and indeed, the red shirt count dropped dramatically as IDF progressed. Tuesday 7/3/2006 And so we hit the full-on IDF. Not so many IDFs ago, all the Intel people wore a standard uniform of khaki trousers...
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The climate is conducive and the woodlands plentiful, so the local longhairs trek out into the forest, sow their seeds and return some months later to harvest the illicit wares. I don't understand markets.
[January 24, 1998, 7:00]
