Tech Today w/ Ken May

It seems like everybody and their dog is trying to get a flexible display out there. TDK, Sony, LG, HP, and most recently Bridgestone are all going nuts trying to make this happen. E Ink is no exception, and although they’re not planning on putting out a successor to their Pearl screen this year, they aren’t standing still, either.

The Digital Reader managed to wangle a few demo videos of cutting-edge E Ink tech at an event a couple weeks ago. Here’s E Ink displays using cloth and Tyvek material as bases:

Although E Ink is the market leader, it’s wide open to disruption. The companies mentioned above have their own projects, and academics are getting into the game, too.

[via Engadget]

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On June 8^th (the World IPv6 Day) you’ll see Facebook, Google and a number of other web sites reachable over IPv4 and IPv6 (more accurately: the DNS records for their web sites will have both A and AAAA records). No problem … unless your users have misconfigured workstations and you haven’t deployed IPv6 throughout your network yet (not many have).

Users with broken IPv6 connectivity will experience long delays connecting to major public web sites. Their workstations will try to reach the content over IPv6 first and will have to experience a TCP-level timeout before retrying to get the same content over IPv4. Guess whose phone will ring … and what the problem description will be 😉

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June 8th: the day your phone won’t stop ringing

Photos courtesy of Phil Seaton, Living Photo

MIT Professor Sheila Kennedy and her team at Kennedy and Violich Architecture recently debuted “SOFT Rockers” as part of MIT’s 150th-anniversary Festival of Art+Science+Technology (FAST) celebration. The team arrived at a sleek, solar-powered energy recharging station, disguised as a comely piece of public furniture, as a response to “‘hard’ urban infrastructure.”

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When we heard that Brammo was hitting the dirt in a Las Vegas motorcross race we had horrific visions of a bright green Enertia with knobby tires struggling in the dirt, pitching its rider over the bars on the first yump it encountered. Thank goodness we can now say with confidence that is not the case. The company has announced it has not one but two new models coming, both specifically designed to handle questionable terrain. The Engage is a full-sized dirtbike, available in both motorcross (offroad) and supermoto (onroad, mostly) variants, and is just a few letters short of a beautiful marketing tie-in. It starts at $9,995 for the on or off road racing versions and then steps up to $11,995 for the street-legal SMS Super Moto, which you can see above wearing some pre-production bodywork. There’s also the Encite MMX Pro, a more hardcore racing version that lacks a price. More details and a video after the break.

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The planet’s population, now almost 7 billion, is expected to reach the 9 billion mark before 2050, according to a revised United Nations projection announced Tuesday.

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This past fall when NASA astronaut Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock took command of the International Space Station he began posting photos to his Twitpic account of the incredible views he was encountering from his lofty perch. My favorite is this photo of an island that looks like a hat. Link

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Incredible Space Pics from Astronaut Twitpic Account

The authorization process Windows imposes on its users is pretty picky, sometimes causing problems with legitimate copies. What do you do when you follow the rules and Windows authorization still fails you? More

To kickoff 2011, we announced the Autism Connects technology and design competition, an international design challenge for students . The competition asked students to help individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to better connect with the world around them and allow individuals who do not have ASD to better understand and connect with those who do by combining technological and creative solutions. After a month of deliberating, we are proud to share the design challenge jury and community winners below! Stay tuned as we give you a more in-depth look at the winning projects.

JURY WINNER

GOBUG
By Team gman
Gobug is an interactive toy designed to facilitate an inclusive social learning experience for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. However, individuals of all ages and abilities are welcome to join, play, and learn.

RUNNER UP

weSYNC
By thisisnoel
weSYNC is an application that creates a specialized profile for the autistic individual by gathering knowledge from each caregiver and establishing a centralized location where it can be accessed and edited. Establishing a dialogue among doctors, therapists, teachers and parents allows them to reinforce one another’s efforts.

RUNNER UP

VISUAL WATCH
By cam
Visual Watch is a time management and picture exchange communication system (PECS) tool designed specifically for people with Autism. My concept tackles two issues. Sense/Management of Time and a more mobile PECS system.

ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY WINNERS

COMMUNICATING THROUGH MUSIC
By candemosse
This game board facilitates positive change in the behavior of children with autism in a “safe” environment. Placing a cube in different positions along the x-axis the notes climb the pentatonic scale, variance along the y-axis effects the pitch of the note.

LINE UP
By cam
Line Up is a fun game for autistic children, that harnesses their interest in lining up toys and other objects, to to teach them facial recognition skills that are essential for communication.

BEARHUG
by squeezeease
BearHug is an inflatable vest for giving Deep Pressure Therapy to help ease anxiety and regulate the sensory system. Using air, adjustable pressure can be distributed safely and evenly to the torso, to meet each child’s specific needs and calm the child so that they can interact with others, concentrate better, and be more effective at completing daily tasks.

Special thanks to our esteemed Jury including Yves Behar (fuseproject), Lisa Strausfeld (Pentagram), Richard Seymour (Seymourpowell) and our own Allan Chochinov (Core77) and the Autism Speaks team!

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Even in the early days of humanity, people were lazy. They wanted a way to kill each other without having to go to all the trouble of bashing each other’s heads in with rocks. So they turned to better living (briefly) through chemistry. Find out how wolf crap and chilis won wars. More

Yesterday, we found out that E Ink Holdings won’t be releasing a new electronic paper display until 2012 and now, we know why. Turns out, the Pearl manufacturer has been busy refining its screen tech acumen, and extending it to a variety of different surfaces. The Digital Reader recently caught up with Sriram Peruvemba, E Ink’s VP of global sales and marketing, who confirmed that his company has developed a SIRF display that can be printed on cloth, effectively turning any t-shirt into a flashing, black-and-white billboard. E Ink’s engineers have taken a similar approach to Tyvek cloth, creating a display that could make your vanilla postal envelopes a little more dynamic. And, as you might expect, the company has been experimenting with an e-ink screen capable of supporting colorful, full-motion video — though it looks like E Ink still needs to smooth out some of the grainy kinks in that one. All three demo videos are available for your viewing pleasure, after the break.

[Thanks, Nate]

Continue reading E Ink develops flashing displays for cloth and Tyvek, experiments with color FMV (video)

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