Word: wireless
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...into a futuristic world. French artist Matthieu Briand’s “UBIQ, a Mental Odyssey” transforms the gallery entrance into a spaceship based on the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Visitors are then asked to wear a tan wireless viewing device that changes the view to what one of the three other participants is looking at, making the perception of the exhibition gallery into a shared reality. Moving along, the gallery walls are painted a dull shade of white, bare except for the numbers one-to-13 differentiating...
...continuously update their methods to keep data safe. As an alternative, they support other stalled bills that have emerged from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, which outlaw pretexting, but nothing more. "It seems like they're penalizing the wrong parties here," said Jeffrey Nelson, spokesman for Verizon Wireless. "The problem is the pretexters. Requiring the phone companies to report what they're doing makes the assumption that companies don't have every reason to go after these people. Why create another bureaucratic layer that won't really solve the problem and takes a lot of time and resources...
...Wireless panic alarms could easily and inexpensively be made available in every school, especially for those responsible for access control. If a situation warranting concern arises, an alarm could be sounded to simultaneously alert the school and local law-enforcement officials...
...track. It's not the kind of place you would expect to find subsistence farmers surfing the Web with wi-fi computers or making voip (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing - thanks to a wireless, solar-powered communications system installed in the Ruwenzori mountains by Inveneo, a San Francisco nonprofit. Inveneo was launched in 2004 by three Silicon Valley veterans - Mark Summer, 36; Kristin Peterson, 45; and Bob Marsh, 59 - who share a passion for high tech and an interest in the developing world. They...
Nikon goes the Swiss Army-- knife route with this fully loaded, 7-megapixel number. It has built-in wi-fi that comes with a free yearlong subscription to T-Mobile's wireless service that's suitable for uploading snapshots over lattes at Starbucks. It also takes time-lapse photos that can be combined into a movie. And it has an easy-to-use stop-motion tool for making Wallace & Gromit--style Claymation. PRICE...