Comments on KenRadio broadcast 11/12/2008
For those inventors out there: A site to check for patent information inventions.org
I would make a bet that a majority of people use USB technology every day, being through data transfer or an input device that is connected to a USB port. The lasted USB technology to be released to the public and which is used by the majority of people is USB 2.1. Earlier in the year rumors were talking about USB 3.0. USB 3.0 progressing and hopefully it is making it’s final stages before being released to computer companies. Now when we are comparing data transfer of 25 GB:
- USB 1.0 could transfer 25 GB in 9.3 hours
- USB 2.0 could transfer 25 GB in 13.9 minutes
- USB 3.0 will transfer 25 GB in 70 seconds
USB 3.0 will also have the capability to send a lot more power through it’s ports, potentially powering a whole laptop. This would be extremely useful for those who use laptops on planes. If the planes provided USB 3.0 ports travelers would be able to plug into the aircraft ports and power their lab tops through a USB port instead of an AC adapter.
A city in Turkey is thinking of suing the producer of the Batman movies since the city’s name is Batman. The population of the city has been nagging the mayor for some time on what to do about their name being used in the media industry. Now keep in mind Batman, Turkey wants to sue the producer of the Batman movies and not DC comics, which I think is kind of funny. In the current economic crisis the world is facing I guess governments are taking extreme measures to come up with money.
Google is tracking the flu virus by monitoring searches related to the flu. A link to Google’s flu trends: Google Flu Trends. The data presented by Google is fairly accurate since they have been using the search data and data from the US government on the flu virus throughout the last few years. Google’s search data and the government data are very similar. The current information is only for the United States but Google wishes to expand the flu trends globally. Also Google wants to use this technology to analyze other trends such as AIDS and other viruses. I think this is a great tool to use in order to find out if an illness is present in a certain area. This technology could also be extended to examine other searches related to non-medical topics such as economics. Also advertising agents for companies could be interested in this technology to examine search trends in areas.
I remember when comic books started becoming movies and now many movies are being made that are based on comic book series. A genre of movies that is going to start taking off, just like the comic book movies, are movies based off of board games. Jumanji is probably the first thought of movie when someone asks you about a board game movie. Another movie set to come out in the future is a movie based on Monopoly. It will be interesting to see how Monopoly is developed into a movie. If board games are going to start becoming movies how would one develop Risk into a movie, or even a bigger challenge: chess.
Companies are starting to sign up for space during the Superbowl for advertising time. Three companies which were not participants in last years Superbowl commercials but have space for advertising this year are Monster.com, Pedigree, and eTrade.
South Korea is the broadband capital of the world. This means South Korea is extremely capable of downloading large amounts of content such as movies. That is exactly what they have been doing. The average Korean citizen downloads a movie 55.4 times a year. All motion picture companies based in the United States (Sony, Paramount, Universal, Buena Vista, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers) have stopped distribuing content legally in Korea. Warner Brothers was the last to pull out of Korea hoping the illegal activity of movie pirating would decrease, but such activity has actually spiraled out of control.
