Yearly Archives: 2013

Biomedicine Update: New Lung Transplant Technologies Leading to More Successful Outcomes

My daughter was born with a congenital heart-lung defect. One of the options my wife and I faced was to permit the doctors to...

Transportation & Energy Update: New “Big Three” Join Together to Develop Fuel Cells for Cars

By 2017 hydrogen-powered electric vehicles (EVs) will be on the road using fuel cell technology jointly developed by Ford, Nissan and Daimler. The three...

Gizmos & Gadgets: Samsung Sets Up $100 Million Fund to Inspire Invention

Young Sohn, President of Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant, announced yesterday a $100 million catalyst fund aimed at start ups to inspire them...

Sometimes Technology Does Not Provide The Answer

I'm back at my desk after a week of being a beach bum at a resort near Montego Bay, Jamaica, where I swam, read...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for January 25, 2013

This is the last weekly headlines for the month of January. Next week I'm on a sabbatical so you won't be seeing any new...

Space Update: The Race is Once Again Heating Up But This Time Nations Aren’t the Only Ones Involved

Several interesting space announcements have made headlines in the last couple of weeks. Among them: Russia is once more putting money into their space program...

Gizmos & Gadgets: A Key Chain Flashdrive with a Terabyte of Storage

Imagine a Terabyte of data stored in a device no bigger than a cigarette lighter. That's the Kingston HyperX Predator 1 Terabyte drive recently...

Gizmos & Gadgets: A Fuel Cell for Smartphones, MP3 Players, eReaders, Tablets, Digital Cameras and More

Nectar Mobile Power has created a butane-powered fuel cell, the first truly portable power device designed to provide up to a month of recharges...

Communications Update: A Library without Physical Books – The Future is Here?

As I put down my eBook reader to write this blog it has become apparent that we are seeing a dramatic change in the...

Technology Can Just Drive You Nuts at Times

On Friday after I finished writing my weekly headlines suddenly my Internet access went down. I did all the root cause checks. Did I...

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