A monitor that projects images directly into your eyes.

Sounds like something out of a Sci-Fi movie right ? Especially the picture makes it look more so.

However, thefeature.com article talks about how work is on so that one day instead of relying on a screen to show you video images, the image can be projected directly onto the retina in your eyeballs using lasers. This, scientists hope, will change the way we see images. They will be much sharper and lifelike than ever before. Most importantly these devices will consume much less power (quote: The picture is crisper and brighter than any competing heads-up display and doesn't guzzle power like postage-stamp LCD or LED screens)

Work on making this equipment is already in progresss. Personally, i cant wait !

Iraq healing - Iraq Linux Users Group

I believe this is sign of a country healing. I've just been reading of
Iraq Linux User Group - a group of Iraqis getting together with a common interest - Linux (a freely avialable open source operating system). What i found particularly interesting, was the main post on their site - "Why English, Why not Arabic" which explains why they chose to present their site in english rather than Arabic (hey, the way i see it - i couldnt have been able to read it otherwise) ;)

Its nice to know that their new found freedom has started showing effect - welcome to the free world guys and yes - go Linux !!

UK Govt. moves closer to using OSS (Open source softwares)

BBC reports that UK Office of Govt. Commerce (OGC) has reported that use of open source softwares (OSS) such a linux could be a "viable" option. They could significantly save money for the UK Govt.

Moving one step ahead, here's the link to the report on OGC Site.

An Old friend and a new site indicthreads.com

An old friend got in touch with me after reading an old article on visualbuilder.com. He also brought to my notice this site - IndicThreads.com.

Nice to see an indian J2EE site dedicated to indians. Come to think of it, there are not enough of them. Nice work fellas ..

Using GMail as a blogging tool

For all those of you, who (like me) are nuts about using GMail (google Mail) and blogging, here's some good news - Mexican turns Gmail into blogging tool

Google Print - Search book and discover its contents.

Google is all set to introduce its latest offering - Google Print. This new facility will allow users to search through books, magazines and various other print material thats avialable in electronic format.

Within the search results, it will also provide links to search further within the book, read excerpts from it, optionally even but it and by now the expected -- targetted ads ;)