I flew back to my home country to celebrate Christmas there with my loving family. I had fun although it was just a short vacation, as I need to head back here in SG for the yearend support. Gees :(
Anyhow, just after Christmas a powerful quake (with a magnitude of 7.1) hit southwestern Taiwan, which might have potentially caused tsunami hitting its neighboring countries. Thank God it didn’t happen. It was the same date, Dec 26, when a devastating tsunami hit Phuket two years ago.
Now, Mother Nature played with the internet by crashing through undersea cables. This has disrupted major communication lines in Taiwan and the internet traffic across Asia-Pacific.
With this kind of natural disaster striking from the sea, the impact is not just on land-structures within the affected areas, it can also cause havoc and major loses across different countries especially if comm. lines, power lines, and net connections gets busted. Kinda scary…
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Life Blog: Mother Nature plays and crashes the net? |
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Tech Blog: What could be next? |
A friend forwarded this link to me. I was flabbergasted with this great invention since the first time I’ve seen this kind of technology was from the movie “Mission Impossible” or “Minority Report” (I couldn't recall exactly). Remember the scene where Tom Cruise was pulling some pieces (like a digitized files) out on a glass panel using his fingers to locate someone? Intuitive is it? and yes there’s a working prototype launched by this research scientist himself in TEDTalk online.
Watch it from this link
Like the audience, I wowed when Jeff Han showed some pictures he played around, a digitized keyboard -- which can be resized on your preference, and also few GPS snapshots in 3D which you can move around if you want to see the perfect angle!
Truly intuitive and amazing! This is just one of the incredible inventions out there, and some scientists could probably formulating new ideas at this very moment, while others might painstakingly be testing out their new discoveries. So, in today's world can you imagine what could be next?
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