Flickr on Steroids

Imagine still photos automatically mapped to their 3D space and you have Photosynth. Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos this stunning technology at TED.

Home Storage Outstripping Business

According to Bill Watkins, chief Executive at Seagate, the most significant trend is his business is the amount of raw storage capacity being sold for home use. 

Sales of disk drives for home computers, digital video recorders and music players is now greater than raw storage sold to business.   This continues the trend of consumer technology domination, having already displaced military technology as the most advanced on the planet, consumer driven technology is now overshadowing business technology.  Link: New York Times

LED Tipping Point?

It might be a little soon, since the U.S. Department of Energy’s long term research goal calls for white-light LEDs producing 160 lumens per watt by 2025, but Cree announced a single- die, cool-white LED with an efficacy of 72 lumens per watt and output equivalent of a 75-watt incandescent. Suddenly, all LED lighting doesn’t seem that far off. The warm white version is marginally less efficient at 52 lumens per watt. Link