A restaurant in Tucson has hit upon a rather disturbing promotional gimmick: it is taking orders for African Lion tacos. The owner of Exotic Taco y Tequila, Bryan Mazon, sees nothing wrong with serving up lions and admits that he hopes that grinding up lions will bring him some publicity. JonathonTurley
Designed by Gonglue Jiang, the Infinite USB Plug allows you to keep adding your peripherals without the need USB hubs or hot swapping your devices on USB ports when needed. The color coding on plugs will make it easy to identify which plug belongs to which device. Unfortunately, the Infinite USB Plug is only a concept. GadgetsLand
It happens to me about, oh, 14 trillion times every day: I go to plug
something into my computer's USB port, and it doesn't fit because I've
got the plug-head upside down. Then I mutter some curse word, peer at
it, and then plug it in the right way. If I added up all the seconds I
waste this way in a year, it'd be... well, it'd be enough that I thank
the design gods for Ma Yi Xuan, who invented a USB plug that fits both effing ways. FastcoDesign
There are some do's and don'ts with location sharing. Things like not
publicly posting geo-tagged photos of gold bricks near open windows, or
alerting the world to your extended absence are the more obvious ones.
But not everyone knows these things, which is why Microsoft is sharing
some tips of its own based on research it commissioned around location
based services. Cnet
Countywide Community Forums is actually an interesting Gov 2.0 effort
itself. They provide civic engagement forums and surveys designed to
give elected officials an accurate picture of what their constituents
are thinking; equally importantly, the forums are a place for those
constituents to discuss issues with each other. The Forums are designed
to enable diffuse opinion to coalesce into something coherent — a kind
of smoothing factor for representative democracy. We’ve seen other
tools that do this (think IdeaScale); the innovative touch here is that
it’s both online and in-person, and is specifically designed for citizen
engagement with elected officials. CCF even provides videos to help people learn how to facilitate in-person events more productively. CivicCommons
This just in from the remains of CES: Italian design firm Lavatelli has created a prototype emoticon keypad
which plugs into a USB port. Soon you’ll be able to express joy,
sadness, cheekiness and other ASCIImotion with just the touch of a
finger! Email users and internet forum readers are atwitter in
anticipation – or perhaps for some, dread. CultofMac
(Reuters) - Europe's
drive to cut drug prices as well as U.S. healthcare reforms are likely
to dampen global pharmaceutical companies' growth outlooks for 2011. Reuters
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists are closer than ever to finding the
source of the Universe's mysterious dark matter, following a better than
expected year of research at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle
detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. Physorg
Microsoft has confidence in Windows Phone 7’s long-term success, but
it’s not quite ready to talk about the actual number of Windows phones
in customers’ hands.
The company on Wednesday told Wired.com that by the end of 2010, it
sold 2 million Windows Phone 7 licenses to manufacturers worldwide since
the mobile platform’s November launch. Gadget Lab
Microsoft has announced a free, 30-day trial of Microsoft Office For Mac 2011. Launched last October,
Microsoft Office For Mac 2011 includes legacy products Word,
Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook, jazzed up to include more interactive
interfaces. For example, the Dynamic Reorder function within Word lets
you interactively re-order all the layers within your document or
presentation. PCmag
The financial services industry is activating Apple’s iPads at a rapid
clip, according to a report by Good Technology, which provides corporate
email software. ZDNET
NEW YORK - The nose rarely figures in the sensory experience of a museum visitor. That is about to change at one New York City museum. Huffington
After 10 years, it’s time to revisit former President George W. Bush’s signature domestic policy achievement, No Child Left Behind. President Obama on Tuesday asked for a rewrite of the revolutionary standards-based law. He wants to set a high bar for states and school districts and give local governments more flexibility for achieving those goals. National Journal
TORONTO, Ontario, January 20, 2011 -- IDC has released a new study, 10 Canadian Digital Media Companies to Watch (IDC #CA4TIW10). The study features ten emerging companies that are innovating and excelling with a variety of new media technology solutions including: digital comics, live blogging tools, cross platform media content libraries, a self-serve advertising platform, a 3D animation tool, and a digital signage solution, to name a few. IDC
The new Republican majority in the House has vowed to undo vast swaths of the Obama administration’s agenda for health care reform. But analysts predict that technology projects will be mostly off limits.
“The tech spending is set to go on,” said Lynne Dunbrack, an analyst in the Health Industry Insights unit for IDC, a technology research company. “The better use of health care technology to reduce costs and improve care has bipartisan support.” Bits
(Reuters) - U.S.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for expanding high-speed
wireless services to meet the voracious appetite of consumers and
businesses, a task that could be tough because airwaves are a finite
resource and demand is almost limitless. RUETERS
SAN FRANCISCO -- TransMedics, Inc., an emerging medical technology company developing advanced solutions for better, more effective organ transplants, announced today the results from the European PROTECT I trial demonstrating the successful use of the Organ Care System[TM] (OCS) in maintaining and transporting donated hearts for transplant surgery. These data were presented at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation's (ISHLT) 27th Annual Meeting & Scientific Session in San Francisco. TheFreeLibrary : TransMedics
(Reuters) - British media group Informa Plc (INF.L) has walked away from a purchase of Springer Science + Business Media, saying it could not do a deal in the time required by the debt-laden firm's private equity owners. Reuters Springer
As President Obama reversed the Bush administration's limits on embryonic stem-cell research, he said scientific decisions must be "based on facts, not ideology." CNN
NEW YORK - The nose rarely figures in the sensory experience of a museum visitor. That is about to change at one New York City museum. Huffington 
SAN FRANCISCO -- TransMedics, Inc., an emerging medical technology company developing advanced solutions for better, more effective organ transplants, announced today the results from the European PROTECT I trial demonstrating the successful use of the Organ Care System[TM] (OCS) in maintaining and transporting donated hearts for transplant surgery. These data were presented at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation's (ISHLT) 27th Annual Meeting & Scientific Session in San Francisco. TheFreeLibrary : TransMedics
