Archive for August 2004

Reporting from the Fount of Knowledge

Monday, August 30th, 2004

The Frontier Channel returns today from a remarkable new setting for observing the frontiers of science and technology: the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to being one of the premier [...]


Whatever You Want - 300 DPI

Monday, August 9th, 2004

In our recent “Future Wants” column regarding a future eBook reader that will eventually replace ink and paper, one of the minimum requirements was a screen with a resolution of 300 dots per [...]


Introducing “Future Wants”

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

Frontier Channel announces today the launch of a new feature: Future Wants. This occasionally column will take a look at futuristic products that we would REALLY like to own, along with the features this product [...]


Future Wants: eBook Reader

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

Long predicted to replaced conventional books and other physical media like magazines and newspapers, eBook readers have been around for a couple of decades but have never enjoyed much success. The latest devices [...]


MESSENGER Begins Fall Toward Sun

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004

NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft was successfully launched this morning at 11:15:56 a.m. PST. The spacecraft will be the [...]


Broadband Out of the WildBlue

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

While cable and DSL broadband technology battle for supremacy in homes, new competition from satellites could remake the market just like they did television programming in the 1990s. WildBlue [...]


Broadband Out of the Stratosphere

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

As mentioned above, the distance to satellites introduces a delay with the receiving dish on the ground. After clicking a link on a webpage, users of satellite broadband notice a split second pause [...]


Rolling Out Flexible Displays

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

Current flat panel displays depends on rigid silicon-on-glass backplanes to drive pixel components. Rolltronics Corporation has introduced a new technology they trademarked under [...]