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2009

When objects light to talk to us

 An international consortium led by the University of Bath in Great Britain has launched an impressive program of work to consider the possible use of organic screens (type OLED).  What could be the little film of plastic that conduct electricity and solar-powered?  What changes might they make in how we …

Plants against pollutants

 In 1980, Dr.Bill Wolver ton of NASA has conducted studies on the recycling of air in space shuttles.  This early work revealed that the plants, living things that eat and exchange with the external environment, have the ability to clean the air significantly.  Since then, various investigations have confirmed its …

Mathieu Leaner creates BAL Air

With “BAL Air”, it offers the first version editable mass of a draft outcome of his research the most avant-garde.Who can also design products for sponsors as prestigious as Pace Roxanne, Yogh Yamamoto and Issue Miyake?  Air quality in our domestic spaces is unfortunately worse than outdoors.  Plastics used for …

Ubuntu Linux

I know …  you have a PC running Windows!  Me too!  Finally, I have one:under Vista Ultimate.  Cracked …  because I do not see why I would put some euros in the fortune of Gates!  Let’s be serious.  You buy a PC, it is in Windows.  Because you have no …

Facebook and spam

The online interface of a slightly redesigned to Facebook caused a small controversy.  Users reluctant to change expressed their discontent and several Facebook groups have formed to demand the return of the old interface.    Among these groups, the so-called “5000000 against the new version of Facebook” has had some …

Symantec bought the Australian PC Tools

The Californian publisher has announced the acquisition of one of its competitors.  We had talked about the Australian publisher free tool for behavioral analysis of viruses Threat Expert.Several awards for its security software for Windows, PC Tools will be bought by Symantec.   Symantec and include in its range of products …

Review of summer: open source

 Early August was held at the San Francisco Linux World.  And, whether at Microsoft or the National Assembly, open source has its place.  With the Linux World Conference from 4 to 7 August 2008, we knew that the free software would be hot.  In addition to the San Francisco meeting, …