"PaperPhone:Future Cellphone" future for smartphones and tablets

Tired of cracking the glass on your smartphone screen? Or carrying around the extra weight in your pocket? And how many times have you wanted to smash your phone when talking to annoying people?Say thanks to the latest technology you'll soon be able to crush that handset mercilessly. Well, almost.

The e-paper prototype PaperPhone has a 3.75-inch thin-film display and developers call it the world's first flexible smartphone. It can do everything a smartphone can, such as make calls, display books, and play music.The world’s first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing. future cellphone will be as thin, light and flexible as a sheet of paper.

At a computing conference next week, Roel Vertegaal, associate professor of computer science and director of the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, will officially unveil the "PaperPhone."

As seen in the vid below, the prototype is based on e-ink technology and is more like a bendable plastic sheet about the thickness of a conference badge. It can be operated by bending the corners to turn a page, squeezing to make a call, and even written on with a pen.

“this is the future. everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” says creator roel vertegaal, the director of queen’s university human media lab,. “this computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. you interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.”

being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers.

“the paperless office is here. everything can be stored digitally and you can place these computers on top of each other just like a stack of paper, or throw them around the desk” says dr. vertegaal.

"This is not a maybe. This is a definite," Also said Vertegaal. "This is what your phone will look like."

the invention heralds a new generation of computers that are super lightweight, thin-film and flexible. they use no power when nobody is interacting with them. when users are reading, they don’t feel like they’re holding a sheet of glass or metal.

dr. vertegaal will unveil his paper computer on may 10 at 2 pm at the association of computing machinery’s chi 2011 (computer human interaction) conference in vancouver — the premier international conference of human-computer interaction. an article on a study of interactive use of bending with flexible thinfilm computers is to be published at this conference, where the group is also demonstrating a thinfilm wristband computer called snaplet.

Lets wait and watch the next paperPhone...

Super Moon Special Effects

For the first time in 18 years, the full moon will become a Super Moon rising from the east that will be a perigee full moon, or “super moonthat will have super Moon Special Effects .” What that means, according to NASA, is that the lunar orb is much closer to the Earth than usual.

The last time the supermoon's slow spin brought it so near to us was March 1993. It’s not expected to happen again for at least another 18 years.

NASA says the moon will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter. But the key to getting the most out of this celestial event lies in looking to the sky at the right time.

Peer at the moon as it rises over the horizon and it will likely appear “absolutely enormous,” says NASA.

The so-called "supermoon" will appear about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal, according to NASA.

It’s long been lore to blame a full moon for misfortune, and there’s plenty of Internet speculation – some by actual scientists -- that this weekend’s “super moon” triggered last week’s mega-earthquake and tsunami that crushed the coast of Japan.

Though the catastrophic 9.0 temblor was so powerful it shifted the Earth’s axis 6.5 inches, moved Japan’s coast eight feet and slightly shortened the length of our planet’s day, NASA says the super moon had absolutely nothing to do with it.

This Super Moon will, however, bring higher high tides to the Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River.

The Super Moon will take a fill shape and appears 
bigger to the human eye on Saturday at 9.10 pm

“At that point, the Super Moon will be around 365,576.9 km from earth, which is the closest distance in 20 years….it will be a full moon and fully lighted,” he said, quoted by the Saudi Arabic language daily Sharq.

"The full moon has been linked to crime, suicide, mental illness, disasters, accidents,  birthrates, fertility, and werewolves, among other things. Some people even buy and sell stocks according to phases of the moon, a method probably as successful as many others. Numerous studies have tried to find lunar effects. So far, the studies have failed to establish much of interest."

If a supermoon affects the human body, then a supermoon surely would send special Moon effects into overdrive, leading to even more pregnancies, epileptic seizures, surgery screw-ups, suicides, assaults and various other types of biological havoc. Surely, it would.

The moon rises over L.A. City Hall on Friday. Saturday's full moon will
 be the closest since 1993.(Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times / March 18, 2011)

This story from LiveScience takes a similar tack with similar results.  Writer Robert Roy Britt notes:

"When strange things happen at supermoon, people notice the "coincidental" big bright orb in the sky and wonder. When strange things happen during the rest of the month, well, they're just considered strange, and people don't tie them to celestial events."

The National Weather Service in Sterling says tonight’s weather should be just fine for viewing the rare super moon. Temperatures will be a chilly but bearable and the only clouds in the sky will be high and thin.

Anyone who visited GeoHot’s PS3 jailbreak website is now part of Sony lawsuit

A judge has ruled that Sony may unmask the identities of anyone who visited the website of George "GeoHot" Hotz, which contained PlayStation 3 jailbreak tools.

George Hotz

A US federal magistrate judge has ruled that Sony may learn the identities of anyone who visited the website of PlayStation 3 jailbreak hacker George Hotz since January 2009, Wired reports.

Hotz — a renowned 21-year-old hacker, famous for his iPhone jailbreaks, who goes by the handle GeoHot — has been accused of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for hacking the Sony PS3 in a way that allows users to install whatever software they like on the normally-closed device. After completing the jailbreak hack, Hotz published an encryption key and software tools on his website, providing anyone with the means to recreate the hack on their own PS3.

The subpoena, issued by Magistrate Joseph Spero of San Francisco, requires Bluehost, which hosts geohot.com, to provide Sony with “documents reproducing all server logs, IP address logs, account information, account access records and application or registration forms” related to Hotz’s website. This includes “any other identifying information corresponding to persons or computers who have accessed or downloaded files hosted using your service and associated with the www.geohot.com website, including but not limited to the geohot.com/jailbreak.zip file.”

Read rest of the story here.