It seems someone tested the dubious communication of the “coma man” who supposedly was “talking” via a facilitator after 23 years of being trapped in a coma.
15 TED Talks to help with disasters like Haiti
Jan 17th, 2010
The vision of TED is “Ideas worth spreading”, so with disasters similar to the recent Haitian Earthquakes I thought I’d highlight and spread 15 talks presented at TED over the years that are of interest in disaster situations and useful in (somewhat) “disaster proofing” the developing world.
Younger generation ditch fixed lines for mobiles
Sep 11th, 2009
I can say that I either haven’t had a fixed line or known the number since about half way through uni. It seems I’m not alone according to this article: “Millions set to disconnect their fixed-line phones”.
Firefly universe one step closer: Google wave
Jun 1st, 2009
Google’s trying to overhaul email communication with some sort of other communication (source for data mining): “Google wave“. I’m guessing someone in the dev team was a bit of a Firefly fan and thought the idea of a wave (the intergalactic version of an MMS on the show) was pretty good. In the TV show [...]
