The Ice Age, The Bronze Age, etc., no one had ever the idea that we will have something called The Internet Era. What is next? But for brilliant and curious people every thing will be researched with Science – the Endless Frontier. Vannevar Bush of Chelsea Massachusetts, a Yankee inventor born in 1890 was a familiar figure in American history for beginning the Internet story. Adept with numbers and fascinated by gadgets, he studied engineering at Tuffs University, where, in 1913, he invented a device to measure distances over uneven ground and called it Prolific Tracer. During the interwar years, a series of revolutionary inventions transformed daily life. He invented a mechanical computer designed to mechanize the solution to differential equations, a mathematical problem that had tormented students. Kudos to him for making it easier for us. In 1945, Bush published Science – the Endless Frontier, in which he proposed federal financing of basic scientific research, especially in the fields of health and national security. This led to the creation of the National Science Foundation which became the main government agency for supporting most basic scientific research.

The biggest problem facing scientists after the war would be information overload. “The investigator is staggered by findings of thousands and thousands of other workers – conclusions which he can not find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. And then the explosion of potential solutions: microphotography and the cathode ray tube. The former could reduce the Encyclopedia Britannica to the volume of a matchbox. The latter could be used to display text pictures on glass screen. Put together, one can store all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized, so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. The proposed machine was called “Memex”. And the rest is history. (dot.con – from memex to internet)

That is what I got out of my compensated blogging, a Christmas gift for my sister 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive compaq notebook. Hubby bought if for me. It is very nice little thing.

Wearing a computer today? Hah, with today’s technology, it might not be long before we start wearing a computer just as we put on our watch, caps and other finishing touches before we go out of our houses. “As the general computing systems become smaller, we are reaching a point at which it becomes conceivable to do these these devices easily, ones that offer access to information and communication resource anytime,” University of Massachusetts computer science faculty member Andy Fagg, who is developing a wearable computer told Sciencedaily. He said, “It is about having a digital assistance s you go about your life”, if man is not enslaved by it.

The R400 is the first Laptop that can connect to any peripheral – printer, monitor, speakers, anything with a USB plug – wirelessly. Just plug them into the docking station. It communicates with the laptop through a new wireless technology called ultra-wideband, which carries video, sound and data faster than Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Signals can travel short distances with nearly the same quality as they would have over cables.

Who does not want? It has not been allowed by airlines to have electronic products and gadgetry that would interfere with their navigational system, but the main reason was security against terrorists communicating while up high through the world wide web, having Internet access while on the sky. It had been banned since the September attack. But now, if you want free in-air access to Internet, fly with Jetblue heading from San Francisco to New York on JetBlue Airways next week, so you may get a chance to join testing in-flight e-mail and instant-messaging service. But because of bandwidth constraints, general web access and e-mail attachments won’t be permitted. Service will be accessible only to travelers using two BlackBerry models, the 8820 and 8320, and to laptop users with Yahoo e-mail and Yahoo instant messaging. The test will be on Tuesday on Flight 641 from JFK International Airport to San Francisco International. The return flight, Flight 644, leaves San Francisco at 12:25 p.m.

Let the robots do the washing. One of the Latest Gadgets in Tech, iRobot’s award-winning floor washing robot is designed for maximum coverage of large floor areas, cleaning up to 500 square feet on a single battery charge. The Scooba 5900 only puts down fresh solution as it cleans under kitchen cabinets, tables and other hard-to-reach areas. The Scooba 5900 features a sleek design that complements kitchen decor. Safe to use on all sealed hardwood, tile and linoleum.

The XO laptop is a computer built for learning and designed specifically with children in mind. Because of this, the features deemed most valuable for its purposes are as good (and in many cases, better) than comparable features on a $1,000 laptop. For instance, the XO’s screen can be viewed as clearly as a newspaper in broad daylight, and the wireless range of the XO is several times longer than your average laptop. It’s also more rugged, resilient and power efficient than most other laptops on the market. While other features, such as power and speed, cannot compare to a $1,000 machine, they are excellent for the XO’s $200 price point and meet the necessary requirements for learning.

Storage is an important component of making Web apps fit easily into consumers’ and business users’ lives. That’s why they’ve always offered a lot of free storage, and it’s why they offer paid options for buckets of ‘overflow’ storage spanning across’ applications. Now Google plans to offer consumers online storage as part of an attempt to shift personal computing to the Web, which essentially frees consumers to view their data wherever they are and makes them less dependent on a single hard drive. It also intensifies Google’s competition with Microsoft, since a consumer who stores data on the Web may have less need for Microsoft’s desktop software.