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The Moller Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Skycar prototype is for sell at eBay… “Own the one and only prototype of the Moller M400 Skycar®. This test vehicle has flown repeatedly and demonstrated its hover capabilities in over a dozen flights at the Moller International facilities in Davis, California. It is our intent to offer … Read more

Sprint has decided to raise prices for both sending/receiving SMS messages and data-plans. Texting is now 15 cents per message (up from 10 cents). Sprint also decided to raise the price of data usage to 3 cents per KiloByte (up from 2 cents per KB). I'm a bit surprised about this, as I was expecting … Read more

…while cleaning my home office, I've found my Java Ring! Wow, it has been a long time since I played with it. Have you seen one? OK, I'll admit it, it's kind of geeky, but it's cool, and is part of Java history… an early attempt on (Java-based) wearable computers. Java rings where introduced around … Read more

If you received a repeat of blog entries from my feed (via Feedburner), sorry about that. I was tweaking Feedburner parameters, and it republishes the feed when doing so… ceo

While driving to work yesterday morning, the traffic was heavy. I stopped at the gas station to refuel. While the gas prices have been getting lower, the prices are still expensive (I was able to find a gas station with $2.29/gallon). This gave me some time to think about the car of the future… The … Read more

There was a couple. And the couple was chatting. “Honey, but how do we get to the fields?”, asked the spouse. “Let's ask Google, Google knows everything”… the spouse answered. And the couple smiled, and Googled away for the fields…, “I told you honey, Google knows everything” said the spouse. The spouse smiled, and clicked … Read more

I'm on my way to the Texas Wireless Summit 2006 – see the event's program. Good set of speakers. I'm looking forward to listen to what they have to say… ceo

According to the Prince & Cooke consultancy group, SMS penetration in Argentina is 97% if users under 18 are taken into account, and 92% otherwise. That's a very high pen rate. And that translates to one thing: Argentinians are a bunch of social, friendly people – which makes SMS adoption a natural thing. :-) It … Read more

See a very good and entertaining talk on Human Computation and “games with a purpose” by Luis von Ahn, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. What an ingenious method to have humans help solve the open problems yet to be mastered by computers. It's a 51 minutes video, but Luis … Read more