Tech Shout!

This certainly will be a week to remember. January 14-19, 2008 has seen a lot of amazing technological advances. CES 08 concluded a while ago, only to see the Macworld 2008 Expo take off in full swing.

This week we also have some strange news emanating from the gaming world, aswell as a very exciting rumor! Balancing that out are some pretty amazing inventions as part of the weekly round-up.

Technology has certainly advanced but never once did we imagine that a contact lens could ever have the ability to display details of incoming calls on a mobile phone. Dazed and confused? Well, don’t be because this invention will take a few years until it actually hits the market. Just imagine, you’ll be seeing people walking around getting programmed by the information they receive on their contact lenses! A form of mind control, we think not! Futuristic to the core, oh yes it is!

It really is confusing. On one hand, video games supposedly have the power to destress, assist surgeons in becoming well…better surgeons, and what not! Then, you have innumerable people campaigning against video games much like the Church of Manchester vs. Sony fiasco or British Prime Minister Gordon Brown who feels that knives should not be included in video games. Well, hello! In case you haven’t played a game, a knife can come very much in handy when your main weapon such as your prized Magnum runs out of ammo. Yeah, so how then can the all-important knife possibly be excluded from a video game? Maybe video game developers will soon have us throwing flowers as a peace offering instead!

The Internet is considered as a boon by some and a bane by others. Much like video games! However, with the Internet at everyone’s fingertips, you can have just about any information you so desire at any time, and any place. However, according to a professor, such spoon feeding can be harmful for students.

On a lighter note, Ladd Spencer of Bionic Commando fame will be visiting you on the Xbox Live Arcade or on the PlayStation Network, depending on which console you own. Expected to maintain the same amount of action if not more, the game known as Bionic Commando: Master D Revival Plan will come around sometime soon. The big question is when?

This bit of news will come as a ray of light and hope to the paralyzed. Japanese and US researchers have come together to prove that monkeys can use their brain to control the walking function in robots. They actually had a monkey run on a treadmill in the US, while a robot located far east in Japan, ran on a treadmill too at exactly the same speed and with the same patterns of movement as the monkey. Wondering how these intelligent scientists managed to do this? Well, wonder no more, here you will find all you need to know about this.

Steve Jobs unveiled quite a revolutionary laptop at Macworld 2008. How well this laptop known as MacBook function, we do not know. But what we do know is that the MacBook is really slim, almost like a file. Apple always comes up with surprises!

And, here is the story of a man who sold video games for money crabs! George Clarke who was totally into selling pirated games, films and music, used to sell his wares to trawler men after fishing trips. Well, then that explains the strange compensation that
Clarke was after. And, here we were thinking that it was really the return of the Crab People a la South Park!

Want a bed that does something more than a bed can do? Well, before your mind wanders, let us introduce the Starry Night bed, which does not offer you glimpses of the sky above, but something much better! The bed has an LCD Projector and the ability to monitor snoring and a host of other things.

This week also saw the attack of the MacSweeper attack on Mac computers. F-Secure was quick enough to identify it.

This really has been a week of inventions. Okay, may be they are not inventions per se; rather they are ordinary things that offer a whole lot more just like the Starry Bed that offers much more that just a place to sleep. Now, here’s a pen that offers you something quite the enexpected. Philips has come out with a pen that can tell the writer his/her exact emotional conditions when they are writing. It’s all about the sensors.

This really was the week that was. Perhaps you may catch us saying this particular statement every week. But, then again, technology is progressing at such a rapid speed! What next, is all we can say for now!