Technology
GMOs: Monsanto Was Wrong about Agent Orange being ‘Safe.’ Will We Trust Them with Our Food?
September 20, 2012
Don’t you think it is your RIGHT to know what you are putting into your bodies… into your children’s bodies? We at JayForce.com do! We strongly believe that the freedom to eat whatever you want MUST be coupled with the free flow of information about what you are eating. That is why we are sharing this informational video published by Nutiva. Here is the message that accompanies its YouTube video (above):
‘The same corporations that said DDT and Agent Orange were safe have now put millions of dollars into the campaign against our right to know what’s in our food. In November, Californians will vote on the most important issue to ever effect our food supply. As Goes California, So Goes the Nation.
Vote YES ON 37 Because We Have The Right To Know What’s In Our Food!
Learn more about this important ballot initiative, and the future of your food supply here: http://www.carighttoknow.org/donate.’
Just think: Why would a corporation NOT want you to know what it is doing to your food?
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Technology: Disney Research Scientist Creates Virtual Reality Experience That Looks & Feels Real
September 18, 2012
If ever there was such a thing as a touchy-feely techie, Ivan Poupyrev is. The 42-year-old son of a Russian mathematician, now senior research scientist at Disney Research, is leading us down a virtual reality (VR) path that could one day rival the experience of walking on a Star Trek Holo-Deck (y’all know I’m a Trekkie).
Having been at Disney since 2009, Poupyrev has also been working on technology that turns smooth surfaces into textures. Emitting a weak electrical signal through the body via a small device placed in the heel of a shoe or in a shirt pocket (see? like a Star Trek comm-badge… told ya!), Poupyrev’s technology can make the wearer “feel” images he projects. For example, when the wearer touches an image of a ball projected onto a wall, it feels rubbery to that person. Similarly, a wearer can feel the ridges on a projected image of a mountain. “We can easily add tactile feedback to any wall and public spaces,†Poupyrev says.
Easily… did you get that? This is NOTHING to Poupyrev and Disney! Like play time…
– @ojones1
Technology: Taking The E-Book Revolution To Africa
September 17, 2012
Software pioneer and philanthropist David Risher has been a force in the high-tech industry since the 1990s. Pivotal to the success of techie giants Microsoft and Amazon, Risher is looking to make high-tech history in a different way in the 21st century: Using e-books to spread literacy, literature, and increased opportunity across the African continent.
David Risher has already raised over $1.5 million in government and private sector funds in support of that mission; and his nonprofit, Worldreader, is shipping Amazon’s Kindle reader to schools and communities in sub-Saharan Africa with a near-term goal of providing 1 million e-books to children in the largely English-speaking countries of Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya in the next year. Awesomenesss! Respect, Mr. Risher. RESPECT!
Technology: Apple Passbook May Let You Kiss Your Wallet Goodbye (Video)
September 13, 2012
Apple is going HARD! A new iPhone 5… and now this: making it so your iPhone replaces the need for cards, coupons, and even cash!
There has been much talk over the past few years about turning phones into digital wallets — paying for things seamlessly, in addition to surfing the Internet and making calls. While “the technology isn’t there” for customers to simply swipe their iPhones to make purchases (says Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee), Apple Passbook is expected “to pave the way for mobile payments eventually.” Apple already boasts on its website that, “With Passbook, you can scan your iPhone or iPod Touch to check in for a flight, get into a movie and redeem a coupon.”
And that is just the beginning. Passbook and its potential really have analysts and developers excited:
Tupac ‘Dies’ Again: Hologram Company Goes Under (Video)
September 12, 2012
Financial News One reported days ago (see video above) that Digital Domain Media (DDM) CEO John C. Textor had abruptly resigned and that the company was “evaluating its options, including Chapter 11 bankruptcy.” Well, Kenneth Schortgen of Examiner.com is now reporting that DDM, the company that brought rapper Tupac Shakur back to life (as a lifelike hologram at the last Coachella Festival) has indeed filed for bankruptcy:
Tupac Shakur will always live in the minds and hearts of millions of Americans, but his image, resurrected by Digital Domain Media, suffered a second death today at the hands of the bankruptcy courts.
– Kenneth Schortgen, Jr., Examiner.com
Digital Domain Media’s (DDM) resurrected Tupac hologram was received with much fanfare at the last Coachella Festival. Shortly after the Festival, many of us began to ponder whose hologram would make an appearance at the next Coachella. Moreover, recent buzz about a “noteworthy” celebrity appearance at the Republican National Convention gave rise to talk of the possibility of a speech delivered by a hologram of President Ronald Reagan (before we learned that the celebrity speaker would be Clint Eastwood). Indeed, the possibilities for DDM to capitalize on buzz seemed endless. Unfortunately, the company was not able to convert the buzz into anything truly bankable. With its September 11, 2012, bankruptcy filing, DDM (in effect) died… and the possibility of any more of its holographic resurrections (including an encore performance from Tupac) died with it.
R.I.P. DDM. R.I.P. Holo-Tupac.
(One more time, Holo-Tupac…after the jump.)
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Technology: Sneak Preview of iPhone5? (Video)
September 11, 2012
There are a few videos circulating the Internet that briefly show what is alleged to be the iPhone5. Apparently still ‘in development,’ the model shown side-by-side in the clip above with the current iPhone displays a screen error near the end of the vignette. This video leak breaks the usual hush that surrounds Apple tech releases (if it is proven authentic) in the worst way; as Apple surely would not want a lackluster ‘preview’ (if any) floating around the ‘Net. Well, if the September 12 release date holds, we will know if the iPhone5 looks/functions in any way like this for sure very soon.
READ: IPHONE5 RELEASE DATE SPECULATIVE DETAILS
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Technology: Scientists Extract Personal Secrets With The Use Of Commercial Hardware
September 3, 2012
(Read the full TechCrunch article here.)
Brain Hacking… is it just something they did in “The Matrix,” or is it really possible? READ THIS ARTICLE! It is more than possible. Commercially available technology has already been shown to increase the odds of guessing folks’ secrets (like PIN numbers and home addresses). Mind-reading tech has already been put into practical daily use, says Gregory Ferenstein of TechCrunch:
Brainwave-reading devices, which control computers hands-free, have become increasingly popular for entertainment, control of prosthetics for paralyzed individuals, and military application. The latest commercial versions of brain-reading devices, often used by researchers and software developers, can cost as little as $300 (the product pictured above is the “Emotiv“).
Just imagine a system that is designed to be at least as sophisticated as a cop or poker player using “tells” (non-verbal cues that allow one to guess what another is thinking or thinking of doing) to get information… to crack the case or win the game. That’s the “benefit.” But consider the darker side of this science…
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Technology: The iPad-Powered Home Of The Future (Video)
August 31, 2012
This is technical eye candy. Apple is a beast! Savant Systems is a beast! Now, I wonder if this tech can fix me a sandwich… and fetch me some real Eye Candy (like Rosa Acosta). Solid piece from Forbes online:
The Savant Experience Center, which took eight months to craft and opened in July, was designed by Thom Filicia of TV show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy†fame. It hosts a master bedroom with a walk-in closet, a loft-like living room, a Theo Kalomirakis-designed home theater, even a sports bar. But the real draw isn’t the lavish layout (which also has a hotel room, an office and a classroom); it’s the technology that covertly operates the space. Every “room†in the center is automated by Savant Systems and easily controlled with Apple products like iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch-embedded remote controls. The technology works remotely from anywhere in the world. If you have an internet connection, you can control the home. Want the air conditioning running when you walk through the door on a hot summer day? Flick it on using your iPhone.
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Technology: AOptix Visual Scanners Can Get You Through Airport Security In The Blink Of An Eye
August 31, 2012
Maaannn! You know that technology is taking the ‘fiction’ right out of ‘science fiction, right? You have been reading my posts, right? A’ight then! A company called AOptix is doing something that should be both welcomed and feared! Airport security checks that take an hour can be accomplished in seconds! It’s all in the eyes… and the AOptix technology that scans them. According to Businessweek:
– @ojones1
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Technology: Science That ‘Plays Your Brain Like a Videotape’
August 24, 2012
Okay. Technology is REALLY taking the ‘fiction’ out of science fiction. Let Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, an associate editor at The Atlantic, ‘drop some science’ on you:
Last year, scientists at the University of California Berkeley demonstrated that they could reconstruct the YouTube videos their research subjects were watching by analyzing fMRI scans of their brain activity. The video above is a shot-by-shot comparison between the video presented to the subjects and the video reconstructed by scientists brain scans. See how close the scientist got to what subjects saw…just by scanning their brain waves? Now, the episode write-up (and its included links) go MUCH DEEPER into the science; but let me lift another passage that will cut to the chase:
In a word: WOW!
Technology: In-Store Mapping Will Enable Futuristic Personalized Ads
August 21, 2012
If you remember anything about the movie “Minority Report,” it has to be the tech, right? Remember when the screens played ads based on eye scans; like when the commercial called out to Tom Cruise’s character by name…and offered him a beer! If not, peep the video…and brace yourself. Janne Haverinen’s prototype smartphone software will move us toward that kind of personalized advertising at breakneck speed! According to Businessweek, his better-than-GPS mapping software, IndoorAtlas, can pinpoint your location precisely above ground…or over a half-mile underground!
Knowledge [of exactly where you are] is power. For instance, if a futuristic product promotion system knows exactly where you are in a store, embedded ads in the aisle can play to tempt you to buy products right as you pass them! Hmmm…
Cal Tech’s ‘Toilet of the Future’ Expected To Save Millions Of Lives (video)
August 20, 2012
“No innovation in 200 years has saved more lives than the toilet,” the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation states. “But 2.6 billion people still don’t have a safe, affordable way to poop.” Consequently, every year, millions of people in developing nations (mainly across the African, Asian, and South American continents) are still dying due to poor water sanitation. They are often having to drink and cook with with the same water in which they defecate and bathe! That is a staggering, horrid truth. But thankfully, Cal Tech researchers backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are tackling this problem head-on… with advanced technology that should solve the it in a sustainable, cost-effective manner – with self-contained solar-powered toilets and sanitation systems. The video explains it all (in VERY technical depth). This is high-tech employed to its most noble purposes…saving and bettering the lives of millions. Awesome and awe-inspiring! Check out this video on the prototype toilet of the future.
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Challenges Of Getting To Mars: Curiosity’s 7 Minutes Of Terror (Video)
August 6, 2012
With the recent success of NASA landing the Curiousity Rover on Mars, we were reminded by Jose3030 of just what it took for NASA to make the mission a complete success. In the above video Team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory share the challenges of the Curiosity Mars rover’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars. Although there was no real physical terror for any person involved with this mission, the real terror would have been if it had failed considering over $2 Billion invested dollars was on the line with the project.
READ: MARS ROVER ‘CURIOSITY’ LANDS ON THE RED PLANET
Aaron Hall – ‘Curiosity’ feat. Redman (Marley Marl Remix)
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Technology: 24-Year Old Med Student Finds Futuristic Solution For The World’s Ills [Cover Story]
August 2, 2012
Photograph by Katrin Koenning, article by John Tozzi, for Bloomberg Businessweek.
Here is a frustrating problem: Pneumonia, though treatable with antibiotics, kills more children than any other cause (mostly in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa), according to the World Health Organization.
Enter the problem-solver! Hon Weng Chong, a 24-year-old student at Melbourne (Australia) Medical School, has developed a quick way to diagnose children in areas where health care is scarce. He’s built a stethoscope that can plug into a smartphone and doesn’t require medical training to use. Unfortunately, for now, there is a lack of speedy networks and smartphones in the areas of need. Sad… and the same problem exists in rural/poor locales in MANY countries (like my own, the United States). But imagine if we could overcome this obstacle… lots of diagnoses and prescribed treatments could be done doctor-free (talk about healthcare reform)… high-blood pressure, urinary tract infections… all kinds of one-test-one-pill situations. Improved health outcomes the world over… DONE!
– @ojones1
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Dwight Howard Speaks On ‘miCoach’ Fitness By Adidas (Video)
July 27, 2012
It’s show-and-tell time! When he’s not being indecisive about which NBA team he eventually would like to play for NBA superstar Dwight Howard is promoting for Adidas & helping kids improve their game. The Atlanta native shows us some of his workout moves, and he tells us how Adidas’ miCoach (available Playstation and Xbox 360 Kinect) can help kids (and kids at heart) improve their basketball/athletic skills.
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Just Blaze On Making Beats (Video)
July 27, 2012
Always awe-inspiring watching a genius at work. Here, Just Blaze gives us a feel for his music production process. We also get a peek at the equipment he uses. Take note, especially if you are putting together a “shopping list” for beat-making.
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Marley Marl Classic Recipes: Recreates LL Cool J’s ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’ With Unreleased Verse (Video)
July 19, 2012
“In the first installment of Marley Marl ‘Classic Recipes,’ he shows you how he produced the beat for the 1991 Grammy award-winning chart-topping single “Mama Said Knock You Out” by LL Cool J. He discusses the collaboration and the production process of the track, as well as methods and tools that were used, including the Akai MPC60 and E-Mu SP-1200, the preferred sampler and drum machine for most hip hop producers at that time. In this video Marley Marl loads the samples into his new production weapons of choice, Ableton Live and the Akai APC40, including bits of Sly And The Family Stone’s “Trip To Your Heart” and James Brown’s “Funky Drummer”.
Throughout the video, the DJ legend gives invaluable advice and tips for young and up and coming producers, and he concludes the episode by offering a mixing technique for Ableton Live users and lovers of 808 kicks and other bass-heavy kick drums, and an alternate rock version of the song with never before heard lyrics recorded by LL in 1990.” – Dubspot
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BLITZ – 7/13/12: Friday The 13th
July 13, 2012
Quiet Village – “Circus Of Horror”
HEADLINES
Mitt Romney Tried To Rig NAACP Crowd By Flying In African-Americans To Cheer For Him
Compton Rapper Guerilla Black Arrested For Purchasing Stolen Credit Cards
Joe Paterno’s New Legacy: Coach Turned Back On Helpless Boys Protecting Himself & Sandusky
Mother Of Penn State Sexual Abuse Victim Is ‘Filled With Hatred’ For Joe Paterno
The NBA Is Forcing Its Players To Save For Retirement For The First Time Ever
D.C. Cop Allegedly Threatened To Shoot The U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama
India Spent $1.3 Million To Stop Auction Of Gandhi Letters That May Prove He Was Gay
Chicago Bulls Joakim Noah Speaks On His Home Away From Home
Philadelphia Rapper Beanie Sigel Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison For Income Tax Evasion
Former NFL Wide Receiver Terrell Owens Facing Jail Time For Missing Child Support Hearing
Are Social Media Platforms Making Resume’s Obsolete?
Shaquille O’Neal Teaming Up With TruTv For A New Online Comedy Series
New Sophisticated US-Mexico Drug Tunnels Discovered
Los Angeles Clippers Blake Griffin Injures Knee & Now Out For The 2012 Olympics
Rare White Bison Born In Connecticut; Native Americans Claim It’s A Sacred Sign
United Nations Declares Internet Access A Human Right
The Most Stylish Baseball Caps Of All-Time According To Esquire
The Best Fried Chicken In The U.S. Is In Seattle?
Charles Barkley Says The Dwight Howard Trade Drama Is Not Good For Basketball
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BLITZ – 7/11/12: Wednesday Hump
July 11, 2012
The Dramatics – “Hey You! Get Off My Mountain”
HEADLINES
FBI Says Mexican Drug Cartels Used Bank Of America To Launder Money
NYC Asking Developers To Test Tiny Apartments
Man Accused Of Binding His Wife In Chains & Beating Her For 10 Years
President Barack Obama’s Brother To Make Film Debut In An Anti-Obama Documentary
Mitt Romney To Make A Pitch To African-American Voters At The Annual NAACP Meeting
Man Takes His 9-Month-Old Son To See A Prostitute Because He ‘Couldn’t Find A Babysitter’
Penn St Report On What Joe Paterno & Others Knew About Jerry Sandusky Expected This Week
North Philly Minister Calls For Boycott Of Rapper Meek Mill Due To His ‘Amen’ Song
20 Historical NBA Teams That Deserve Books Written About Them
Lord Finesse Sues Mac Miller For $10 Million Dollars Over ‘Hip 2 The Game’ Instrumental
Women Make A Plea For The Freedom Of An Accused Father & Son ‘Pimp Team’
Rapper Young Buck’s Recording Equipment, Jewelry, & More Go Up For Auction By The IRS
4-Team Trade For NBA Star Dwight Howard Falls Apart; Brooklyn Nets Still Optimistic
California Looking To Ease It’s ‘Three Strkes Law’ For Older Inmates To Save Money
Spike Lee Working On Documentary About Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ Album
Birth Of A Rumor: How The Lebron James ‘Love Child’ Story Went Viral
Study Finds Women Don’t Like Sports But Watch Only For Their Boyfriend Or Husband’s Sake
Surviving Members Of Run-DMC to reunite For A Performance In Texas
BLITZ – 7/10/12: Morning Bull Run
July 10, 2012
Rage Against The Machine – Bulls On Parade
HEADLINES
Self-Driving Cars Are Now Becoming A Reality
59% Of American Workers Are Being Paid By The Hour
Evander Holyfield Finally Moves Out Of His Foreclosed Atlanta Mansion
Reggie Jackson Banned Indefinitely From The NY Yankees For Comments
Heatwave Discoveries: Airport Runways Are Melting
The Past 10 Months Have Been The Hottest Ever Recorded In The U.S.
Brooklyn Nets Working On A 4-Team Team Deal To Get Dwight Howard
Does Minister Louis Farrakhan Want To Merge The Nation Of Islam With Scientology?
Lebron James Leading The Team USA Roster In The Olympics
The 100 Ugliest Athletes Of All-Time According To Complex
Former B2K Singer Raz B Nearly Slices Off His Hand In A Freak Hotel Accident
Marcus Camby Returns To The New York Knicks
Is The NBA’s ‘Big 3’ Era Unavoidable?
Congolese Warlord Sentenced To 14 Years For Using Child Soldiers
Cloned Horses Are Given The OK To Compete In The Olympics
NJ Governor Chris Christie Calls The War On Drugs ‘A Failure’
OKC Thunder James Harden Accidentally Posts On Instagram That He Was Traded
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