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[Create Digital Music] Create Digital Music » iPhone/Touch Roundup: BtBx Acid Bass, iDrum ...: I get the sense that if someone wanted to sell a networkable multi-touchscreen mini-computer that runs a version of Linux and contains 2 light sensors and 2 gyroscopic sensors for a few hundred dollars that functioned like a Monome and a miniature Lemur/Dexter and could download cheap additional functions over a cellular network using a credit card, the people who read this blog would probably be thrilled but would doubt that it could be a sustainable product. Well, if you would like something like that, here it is, but it’s a sustainable product, and you can code an app for it yourself if you want, you Mac users you.

[The Big Picture] Not-So-Great Depression vs. Great Recession | The Big Picture: Gorobei: I don’t disagree that the digital age has accelerated information flow, but we tend to under-estimate how the debt/credit bubbles enabled this magnitude of R&D and subsequent global roll-out and distribution of tech gadgets as well as things like GPS satellites and under-water optic cable upgrades. All of this relied on the use of debt &

[Green Options] Red, Green & Blue: Green Gadgets or Just More Gadget Garbage ...: Organic LEDs exist as a display method, so there is promise there, but I don’t know how much of OLED tech is toxic. Organic semiconductors also exist, but they won’t run as fast as semiconductors made of silicon and the like for theoretical reasons (as explained to me by a physics grad student friend of mine).

[INHABITAT] BACK TO SCHOOL CONTEST: Win a Noon Solar bag! | Inhabitat: When I go to my office at the National Center for Atmospheric Research carrying my new solar bag, it will further spark dialog with the rest of the NCAR scientists who must be rallied to get out from behind their computers and make sure that Obama is elected and is guided by smart people on energy policy. For the consequences to the further diminishing of funding for their important work on the impacts of continued planetary warming, the implications for the future of our planet and all life on Earth will be dire if we have four more years of the same.

[Apple 2.0] Steve Jobs, Verizon, the iPhone and the iPad - Apple 2.0 - Fortune ...: Apple is the ONLY company with a working OS that already allows mobile app purchases with millions of compatible machines all over the globe running the same programs…..in their pocket. I don’t think Apple wants to be first at anything, they want to be the first to sell millions and big PHAT profit margins, that’s it.

[AlterNet.org: Media and Technology] Why I'll Never Buy a Kindle | Media and Technology | AlterNet: I sympathise with you about what makes books so great, not just their immediacy and their embodied history, their tactility(?), but also they just seem to be more durable, they impart a sense of safety to those who have access or own them. In favor of electronic readers are the decreased cost of production and distribution of information, though who losses, and what do we loss (more and greater variety of writers, new writers) are very important matters that is yet to be worked out;

[O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.] The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All - O'Reilly Radar: Inflation-based money is the prime reason for unsustainable growth, the business cycle, and these catastrophic crashes (and we have yet to see anything close to the worst of this one). Inflating the money supply (be means of artificially low interest rates, fractional reserve banking, and monetized debt) causes mal-investment whereby otherwise perfectly sane, rational people make investments and take on risks that appear eminently reasonable by all available indications at the time, but that, in the larger scope of things, are doomed to fail.

[BBC NEWS | Peston's Picks] BBC - Peston's Picks: Deflation or inflation?: The real risk is neither inflation or deflation but a lack of momentum to the structural changes in the global business environment needed to provide a new focus to economic direction and recovery. There is still a huge inquest and, dare I say, holding to account that needs to take place over the coming months and years but this is secondary to the need to re-profile and accelerate a new and dynamic growth direction for the worlds economies.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | NY Times Reports on Biophysical Economics ...: If suppliers of any particular good or service cannot cover their basal metabolism, then that portion of the market will fail. Since all suppliers are also consumers of some other good or service, the failure will spread to all sectors of the market.

[SciTechBlog] What's wrong with electric cars? - SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs: Even a modest shift to electric cars (say, to 10 percent of the national vehicle fleet) would place huge demands on the electric grid and necessitate massive expansion both of generating capacity and distribution infrastructure (wires, transformers, etc.) It doesn't matter if new supply comes from wind, solar, tides, gas turbines, nuclear or hamsters spinning in cages–we're talking decades to put new capacity in place under current regulatory, NIMBY/litigation, capital investment, and construction constraints.

[GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Concept Site] Give Your Direct Input to GM's Volt Engineering Team on Vehicle ...: it won’t matter what the features are;  I won’t buy it.   The problem today is the 5 to 10 year pay back on saving gas $ vs. increased cost of the car.   If these cars are going to really hit mass market success (millions of cars),  then the payback timeframe needs to be in 1 to 3 years range.   Otherwise, I’ll just buy whatever car has the features I want…. there is no financial reason to buy the product.   The question you need to ask yourself is "what does the average person need?".    I need to know how much range I have left on my battery.   I need to know how much longer before my car is fully charged.    I need to know how much total range I have left (battery + gas engine).    I WANT the car to charge itself at the cheapest time of day (if time allows) and this needs to be user selectable/programmed —

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