Multi Touch Screen

Touch screens have reached a whole new level! Most of us use a single contact touch screen as part of our daily lives when we use an ATM or information kiosk but there's new multi-touch screen technology that will change the way we interact with computers. The brainchild of New York based research scientist Jeff Han, the screen allows you to interact with the computer screen using multi touch points. Using both hands you can manoeuvre images around the screen, re-size them and zoom them in and out depending on the application. It could be photos, maps, graphics - you’re really only limited by your imagination.
You can read about the entire research at: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/

Anything is possible on internet

Here’s a story that proves just about anything is possible using the internet. Remember the Kerrigan’s Bonnie Doon holiday house in the hit movie The Castle? Well, it happens to be up for sale. There’s a young Canadian bloke living in Montreal who is a huge fan of the movie "The Castle" and he wants to buy the Kerrigan's Bonnie Doon Holiday house. Trouble is he has no money. So, what is a young man with a dream to do? Use his only assets of course! In this case, his computer and a red paper clip! He set up a website called redpaperclip.com and started trading. He swapped his paper clip for a pen, then the pen for a door knob and the door knob for a camping stove, the stove for generator … and so on! You won’t believe what his red paper clip has traded up to so far!

Read about him: http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

Portable Fingerprinting

In San Bernardino, USA; cops are trialling a new tech crime-fighting weapon. It’s a portable fingerprint scanner that connects police on the beat with a massive fingerprint data base and allows them to check a suspects real identity without having to drag him or her back to the police station. The officer scans each thumb print, takes a digital photo and, in just three minutes, he is armed with a summarised criminal history, record of any arrest warrants and a mug shot.