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Some advances barely get noticed. Those new game boxes? Lots of ink. Not so much the new chips that run them. So it is with this year's Technology Pioneers. Consumers will flip when they see MicroOptical's video goggles, and they'll dig Ruckus' wireless router. In rural India, where Drishtee is taking computers to the poorest people, the benefit is obvious. But Dust Networks' self-organizing mesh networking system is pretty cool if, say, you work in industry. So too are the paper batteries of Enfucell or the flexible sensors of DeepStream. Sensors are a real big deal...
...sleeves. I connected wires for video, networking and power in a particular order. Then I powered everything on and popped the software disc into a PC laptop. (Alas, Slingbox doesn't work for Macs at the moment.) The software found the Slingbox, tested its video, then found my network router and automatically configured it to stream video over the open Internet, not just on my home network. There?s a ?do it yourself? mode, but take my advice, nerds, and let Sling?s software take the first crack ? it was very fast, and saved me from having to log into...
Vista is safer. The Network and Sharing Center allows you to view other computers on your home network, including maybe your neighbor's laptop that has been piggybacking on your wi-fi router. Backing up files to a DVD or an external hard drive is easier. PC-industry analyst Rob Enderle says a "big chunk of viruses" won't work on the new OS. Unlike Windows XP, Vista almost always asks the user for permission to install new software, so it catches many more sinister programs before they strike. Says Enderle: "Vista is much more like the Mac OS, Linux...
...networks to provide low-cost, Skype Internet phone service. They?re not portable like cell phones, since you need to be in a Wi-Fi network to use them, but they can be handy at home (that is, a home with a broadband connection and a Wi-Fi router) or in public places that do offer...
...We’re out there because there’s no wireless internet inside of our suite. My suitemates and I are not alone in the experience of not getting wireless internet in the room. We are, perhaps, unique in the fact that we now live under the router in the hallway. Wireless internet is either slow, erratic, or simply nonexistent at river houses (unless you wed yourself to your entryway’s router). The College’s explanation for this phenomenon is that the wireless network is experiencing unexpected overuse, and they believe that the problem...