Erik's Tech Blog

On February 26, the FCC is going to decide if the internet should stay free and fair, or if it should be handed over to the cable companies.

You don’t want them to pick the cable companies.

David Meyer, gigaom.com

Check this guy out he has warned about the 1st tech wreck before it happened the housing bubble, the great recession of 07’-10’.

by Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science

The electronic revolution has engaged the human senses of vision and hearing. Until recently, it has mostly ignored smell, taste, and touch.

But the sense of touch is on the cusp of its own revolution. The technology is called haptics, a broad definition that relates to anything you can feel.

“Haptics is to touch what optics is to sight,” said Will Provancher, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and CEO of a company building haptic devices.

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Canatu developed a flexible and transparent touchscreen

The finish startup Canatu invented a transparent conductive film made of “nanobuds” (molecular tubes of carbon with ball-like appendages) that could turn any surface into a touch sensor. Snip from TechReview:

The films […] could be used to add touch controls to curved automobile consoles and dashboards, for example. The films are rugged and can be repeatedly bent around something as thin as the cord for your earbuds, so they could be handy for adding buttons to flexible devices.