You Are What You Choose by Scott De Marchi & James Hamilton – Book review
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 17-11-2009
Unlock the Door with FaceID
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 17-11-2009
Unplgged: When we read about this, we thought that this was a concept, but no, it’s actually something that you can buy right now. All over the world, people are using magnetic and RFID cards all over the place in order to get into their workplaces. There are a few different option available for homes, but they are costly. The FaceID system wills tore up to 500 unique faces in its database and will unlock the front door to anyone in there. A pair of digital cameras allow the system to recreate a 3D image of your face. It runs this rendering through a face-detection algorithm to match the faces up. Since the images are 3D, it stops anyone from trying to hack this system with a photo. The system can also cope with different lighting conditions, it even works in the dark!
Ian Mitroff – Dirty Rotten Strategies – Author interview
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 16-11-2009
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins – Book review
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 15-11-2009
Breaking The Bank by Yona Zeldis McDonough – Book review
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 14-11-2009
Stila Soothing Makeup
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 13-11-2009
Coolest Gadgets: When women travel, their makeup case goes with them, wherever theyre getting ready, that case is typically right there. Having a simple case always makes getting ready far less chaotic. Then if you add your favorite music to the combination, it makes for a more soothing morning. This Stila case manages to give both by having speakers actually built into in order to hook up your MP3 player.
The Singularity University fight cheer
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 12-11-2009
Singularity University appears to be in full swing now, which is a great comfort to me. Already I feel much less fearful about being turned into a sex slave for a gang of immeasurably brainy robots. Ted Greenwald, from Wired’s Epicenter blog, has been hanging out at the Sing U campus – it feels, he says, like “a top-secret installation out of a James Bond movie, crowned with strange domed buildings and adorned by sculptures of airships” – and auditing some classes. You can find a rundown of his reports here. It bothers me, though, that Sing U doesn’t appear…
