Looks like Siri has a bit of a naughty side ;)

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Looking back it is amazing to see how far we have come in terms of technology, especially when you look at our vision of the future twenty or thirty years ago.  Many of the things we considered futuristic in the 80’s now not only exists, but is commonplace — like cell phones, for example.

Movies and other visual media often provided clues as to how we anticipated the future to be: Star Trek painted a picture of humans traveling through space, exploring, with a smorgasbord of cool gadgets; 2001: A Space Odyssey had a similar vision, but predicted communicating via video chat, browsing news on tablet-like computers, and artificial intelligence.

Another place where the future was brainstormed and visualized was commercials and other marketing tools of technology companies, such as Apple.  A great example of how the past predicted future developments is the following concept video from Apple in 1988.  To think that in just 20 short years, we have made the technology from this video mostly a reality is astounding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xp4aRpcX5So

Watching this video makes me wonder what companies are cooking up now, and where the future could possibly take us.  What’s next? Teleportation? Flying cars? Robot maids?  Seems to me like we’re just getting started.

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A new app released “find my friends” allows iPhone users to track and locate friends who have agreed to share their location data with a trusted group of people. This app was said to be used to find your friends when u have lost them while at the beach, gold course or vacation. But as you all should know this does come with important privacy issues. This is why you have the option for who may or may not be able to see your location and when.

A man in New York decided to buy his wife a new iphone 4S and enabled location sharing. He had suspecting that she has been cheating. Upon tracking her he found her location confirming her lies.
“I got my wife a new 4s and loaded up find my friends without her knowing. She told me she was at her friends house in the east village. I’ve had suspicions about her meeting this guy who lives uptown. Lo and behold, Find my Friends has her right there. I just texted her asking where she was and the dumb b!otch said she was on 10th Street!! Thank you Apple, thank you App Store, thank you all. These beautiful treasure trove of screen shots going to play well when I meet her a$$ at the lawyer’s office in a few weeks.” He posted on MacRumors forum thread.
So make sure when you receive your iPhones this Christmas you check your location settings!

Mike Sorrentino (The Situation) from the Jersey shore expected special treatment from the apple store in the Fashion Show Mall located in Las Vegas. He was trying to cut in line before everyone else demanding his iphone 4s. Mike was quickly removed from the store. If you watch the Jersey shore shows this shouldn’t be any surprise to you. Hope he doesn’t go home and throw his head against the wall!

Benito Apolinar a 36 year old Texas man has pleaded not guilty to battery charges after assaulting his estranged wife for not “liking” a status update he posted on Facebook. He has posted an update about the anniversary of his mother’s death. While she did not acknowledge his post he confronted her angrily while dropping off his children at her home. “That’s amazing everyone ‘Likes’ my status but you, you’re my wife. You should be the first one to ‘Like’ my status,” Apolinar says before punching her in the cheek and pulling her hair. He was under the influence of alcohol at the time. He was arrested the same the same evening of the incident and is scheduled to appear in court on December 22nd.

Who will take Jobs’ even more pivotal place as the tech world’s foremost visionary? Many are saying Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is the obvious man. He has given his success with changing the way the world connects. Many others beg to differ. Jobs and Zuckerberg do have a lot in common.

Zuckerberg is a computer genius, like jobs, who dropped out of college to start his own company. Zuckerberg is already following in jobs footsteps with all the new Facebook features like the Timeline that has given people the opportunity to express themselves even more. Zuckerberg is extremely confident in his work and visions, as was jobs. So the big question, Is Mark Zuckerberg the next Steve Jobs? You decide.

Researchers from Duke University and the Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne has developed technology that has allowed monkeys to control a virtual arm and touch and feel virtual objects using only their brain activity. Now, paralyzed patients may be able to walk again! The researchers say it is the first-ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body and could lead to robotic exoskeletons. By inserting electrodes in the regions of the brain the researchers were able to train two monkeys to use their brain activity to direct the virtual hands of an avatar to move and differentiate identical virtual objects based on texture.

The virtual body is controlled by the animal’s brain activity. The Virtual hand generates feedback information that is signaled to the animal’s brain. The texture of the virtual objects was shown as a pattern of minute electrical signals transmitted to the monkey’s brains, with three different electrical patters corresponding to each of the three different object textures. One monkey took nine tried to learn how to select the correct object during each try. The other monkey took four tries. The researchers performed several tests to confirm that the monkeys were actually sensing the object and not just selecting random objects. This success seen on non-human primates suggests that this task can be done on humans and accomplished more successfully. As research is shown, it should be possible to create a robotic exoskeleton that could allow severely paralyzed patients to walk while receiving tactile feedback.

Cellular Service Providers Retention Periods

Know exactly how long each Wireless Carrier stores your private information, taken from the Department of Justice, Obtained by American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina by the freedom of information act

So how can an iPad help childrens vision?
The University of Kansas experimented with children with cortical visual impairment (CVI) which is a vision disorder caused from brain damage and prevents the children’s brain from intercepting the visual information.

They tested 15 children with vision problems, each was given an iPad. “We tested 15 children and were absolutely shocked” was Muriel Saunders the lead researcher’s words.

It’s been concluded that children with CVI can contract with bright lights and high contract objects in a better manner, with the iPad’s bright LCD display the children had a way of making contract with simple applications like ‘Baby Finger’.

Childrens Vision problems is only the beginning.

Source: DailyMail

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