Category: New Technology
Nissan to introduce world’s first Around View Monitor
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd will introduce the world’s first Around View Monitor, which offers the driver a bird’s eye view of the vehicle and its surroundings in real-time. Let’s see how this pans out. Read more at Automotoportal.com.
BigBelly to the rescue
I watched a segment (on the Science channel) about BigBelly, a solar-powered trash compacting garbage bin that’s currently being used in some areas of New York. Built and developed by Seahorse Power Company and priced around $4,500, it crushes garbage based on some algorithm into eighth of its size when needed; thus, reducing the frequency…
VMWare’s Open Virtual Machine Tools
Nice! VMWare recently released an open source version of its very popular virtual machine tools. It’s currently housed on Sourceforge, known as Open Virtual Machine Tools. The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user…
BumpTop desktop
I’m not sure if you’ve seen this or heard about it, but this is quite impressive: Interact by pushing, pulling and piling documents…on your computer’s desktop interface. Wow! I’m still digesting (read: thinking/analyzing) how this will affect the computer world. So, just check out the website and video. BumpTop is a fresh and engaging new…