Xconomy discusses why your next TV is a tablet. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is going to come between the content owners and the $32 billion they earn every year in affiliate fees—that is, their cut of cable and satellite subscription revenues. The prospect that these fees might be cut off or reduced is exactly what caused …
Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture.com was interviewed by the Voice of Russia last week Voice of Russia had a talk on February 3, 2012 more about the Florida Republican Primary and what would be happening afterward with myself Brian Wang, owner and primary writer for staging-nextbigfuture.kinsta.cloud, and Phil Jennerjahn, who is running for Congress in California. …
1. Economist – Self-induced sluggishness – This year will probably be a pretty bad one for the world economy; it doesn’t have to be The Economist makes that case that with a little less ineptness the world economy could muddle through. There is no excuse for the lack of clarity around the euro zone’s future, …
CNBC – Jim Rogers expects global economic problems to get much worse. Rogers is short because he is not optimistic about what’s going to happen in the world over the next two or three years. “I’m short emerging markets, short American technology, short European stocks – I don’t see much reason to own equities,” he …
Researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute have developed a material capable of optical amplifications that are comparable to those achieved by the best, currently available semiconductor optical amplifiers. The researchers expect that this material will accelerate data communication and, ultimately, provide an alternative to short distance data communication (at the μm-cm scale). …
Hitachi has demonstrated a 3D projector that can project images onto real-world objects. For the demo, a 3D image of a bird hatching was displayed on an artificial egg that was cradled in an artificial nest. But that’s not all. Viewers looking at the demo see the bird as a hologram, in that as the …
Black paint absorbs 85% of light and a new hyperbolic metamaterial absorbs 99%. Arxiv – Darker than black: radiation-absorbing metamaterial We show that corrugated surfaces of hyperbolic metamaterials scatter light preferentially inside the media, resulting in a very low reflectance and ultimate dark appearance in the spectral range of hyperbolic dispersion. This phenomenon of fundamental …
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have built a very simple nanoantenna that directs red and blue colors in opposite directions, even though the antenna is smaller than the wavelength of light. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have built a very simple nanoantenna that directs red and blue colours in opposite directions, even though …
A new study (Mobile Payments Strategies: Opportunities & Markets 2011-2015) was performed by Juniper Research and they predicts that the total value of mobile payments for physical an digital items along with Near Field Communication (NFC) transactions and money transfers will hit a staggering $670 billion by the year 2015 which is up from $240 …
This is a planned (concept) seastead boat, but they will NOT be launching it next year Seasteading has recently received a lot of media attention after an article published in Details on August 13. Nextbigfuture also provided coverage of Seasteading Nextbigfuture also covered David Brins comments Seastead has some corrections Not launching a big seastead …
Caption: A schematic of the proposed power transfer system for a running automobile. This system transmits electric power thorough a capacitor composed of a steel belt and a metal plate attached to the road, and the power feed in differential mode. Notably, the leakage electromagnetic field is small, and the infrastructure can be set up …