Archive for the 'Innovation' Category

Try Remember The Milk Web Organizer

Web application useful, but not for calendar or organizer. That’s my opinion. The reason is simple, calendar or organizer should can seeing every time.

Use calendar or organizer web application make us have to online every time we need to see it, something that I can not do. But, my opinion above changed after I try services from Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk).

This site services is interesting because it support Google Gears. So it can be use while offline.

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Your Notebook Data Can be Stolen With Canned Air Spray Duster

For some people, loosing notebook is not biggest problem. They can buy it again. But the biggest problem is data that stored in harddisk. So many people use encryption software to prevent data.

But, according a research from joined team (Princeton University, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wind River Systems), encryption software has a big bug. The succeed to found how to crack data encryption with steal the key from RAM which just loose electric power, and key use to break in harddisk.

Lot of computer user does not really turn off their computer. They use sleep or hibernate feature, because that feature make notebook faster to start. The problem is, at those rest modes, RAM data easily to be extracted.

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Biocall, New Way to Communicate with Plants

Take care of plants do not easy. Need diligence, patient, and attention. If owner forget to pour water, plants can be dead. If owner very busy, I suggest to not has plants.

But now, whether you busy or not, you still can has plants and take care of it. There is system which makes plants call, talk, and complaint if we forgot to pour water over it. Also plants can call and say thank you if we always take care it.

This system made by New York University students which joined in Botanicalls Projects. That project base on communication between plants and human. “Botanical open new communication connection between plants and human in order to promote success interspecies understanding,” said they in their web http://www.botanicalls.com. With their effort, plants do not become silence and surrender creatures, waiting the owner come to take care. With technology help, plants able to call owner if there are problems.

Technology which created by Botanicalls Projects basically translates plants communication protocol to form that understandable for human. The method is insert sensor which connected to microcontroller, then connected to telephone system. Sensor system sense plants condition, like soil humid, leaves condition, colors, and others. Microcontroller decides whether plants need to send message or not. If message decided to send, data sent through Asterisk, open source communication.

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