How have phones helped people

	Comments from Digg
...A few weeks ago we have posted a short suggestion post about social networks implementing a quotes section. To remind you in brief what the idea was all about, here it is: We suggested that it would be nice if today's most popular social networks, such as Digg.com, Netscape.com, Shoutwire.com and the like, would start a comments, or quotes, section, where users would promote the comments from the entire network. This po...
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	Humanoids continue invading
...ut 15 years people will be surrounded by an army of drones, which will try to help in everything, maybe in something you don't even want to be helped with. In another 15 years, all this androids will have 100% functional intellects and information more than we can handle. Or maybe it is not so dramatic?...
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	Only 13 % People Have Internet Access
...Only 13 percent of people on the planet have access to the Internet. This statement was made by the United Nations News Center. The majority of Internet users (90 %) live in industrialized countries. The gap in the field of information technology between the developed countries and those that are in development, is continuously increasing. In its statement the UN News Center mentioned that most developing countries canno...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...n would be able to display various sports results. In addition the OLED is much more efficient than the light bulb used today. Currently these devices are applied in mobile phones and MP3 players. However, such OLED is not quite reliable for large TV or computer screens. In order to make the device more efficient so later to launch it to mass market, the international consortium of researches, Modecom, headed by the...
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	Fighting in Somalia to cause aid crisis
...Somalia currently faces a humanitarian disaster. This is due to the fact that the government-backed forces from Ethiopia are fighting the insurgents. The UN officials stated that about 200,000 people have abandoned their homes in the capital of Mogadishu due to the increasing conflict and continuous clashes. It was mentioned that the fighting is the main reason why UN cannot deliver aid to the displaced. A lot of peopl...
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	There Are Successful Bloggers in Africa Too
...s room. The student's second windmill is larger. It applies a bicycle for greater efficiency and generates power for his parents' house. William also uses it for charging car batteries or mobile phones for other villagers. For his achievements, the boy was invited to take part in the second TEDGlobal conference. He held a three-minute presentation about his windmill construction and was awarded with a standing ovatio...
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	A Jogger Wearing iPod Struck by Lightning
...s umbrella which probably saved his life. The lightning went down the umbrella and went off his elbow into the hip. It means the lightning burned the bottom of his body and didn't harm the top half. However, the expert from Florida admitted that it's better to avoid leaving ear buds in one's ears during a thunderstorm, as in this case the ear buds imply metal wires in one's ears. According to the report of the Nation...
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	Over a Quarter of Japanese Want an iPhone, Survey Showed
...A survey showed that about 27% of Japanese are willing to purchase an iPhone from Apple. Taking into consideration that Japan is the land of hi-tech novelties and a test ground for them these 27% should be considered flattering for Apple. It is a fact that an outlander smartphone has slight chances in winning a good place on Japanese market, because in most cases authentic manufacturers' smartphones are more function...
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	Most people would live without sex but not without Internet
... most Americans cannot live without going to the net for more than a week, preferring web surfing to friends and sex. In a survey conducted by JWT advertising agency 1,011 Americans had to answer how long they can do without Internet. As much as 15 percent said that they would feel good no more than a day or less without Internet, 21 percent could do no more than a couple of days, 19 percent of participants said that ...
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	New Software Developed to Convert Speech into Avatars
...nicating. The words spoken by the speaker will be converted into animated characters seen on recipient's screen. Later it is planned that program will be sold to be installed on personal computer. However, there is still a lot of work to be done to perfect the program so it could hit the markets. Researchers say that in spite of the fact that software is quite effective in translating speech into sign language, the stu...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...etrieve the information. Since all devices tend to miniaturize more sensitive read-out heads are necessary to retrieve information from smaller and smaller magnetized information areas on hard disks. However, not much has changed since 1997, when the first read-out head based on the GMR effect was produced, as it was under constant development and even the hard disks of today are based upon this physical phenomenon. It s...
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	Apple Experiences a 67% Sales Growth
...e, since last year's numbers are $546 million revenue with 62 cents for one stock. Thus Apple earned $6.22 billion in this quarter, which is $1.38 billion more than during the same period last year. However, the Apple's specialists estimated a revenue of $5.7 billion. The fact that Apple has a low self-esteem and that its specialists underestimated the power of the company's new products, has lead to a massive growth of...
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	Hard-Rock and Classic Music Could Lead to Road Accidents, New Survey Says
...e accidents. Scientists claim that some music genres in some cases are directly related to some serious car accidents. Among such dangerous music types are named hard-rock, hip-hop and classic music. However, drivers disagree with this statement as they say music helps them concentrate on the road. British psychologists have come to the conclusion that a driver's concentration on the road depends directly on the type of ...
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	NASA to Strike the Moon with a Double Sledgehammer
...rn technology, we can finally see if the moon is made of cheese.  If it weren't for those bright men and women over at NASA, we wouldn't have satellite radio, internet or even cell phones.  Think how hard it would be get online music with no internet!  Perish the thought. Powered by www.infoniac.com ...
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	Robots to Become Our Closest Friends Soon
...of interactive robotic systems that will become available in the next ten years. Professor Dautenhahn explained that iCub will become new robots that could act like social companions. Scientists have already studied the way people want robots to look like and their closeness to people and said that such humanoid robots will be available within a year. Science and technology go hand in hand.  In the not so distant ...
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