Ibuypower’s laptop with a 19″ screen [Text-to-Speech MP-3] may be just the ticket when a puny 17″ notebook display doesn’t cut it. The big screen portable sports two Nvidia GeForce graphics cards running in SLI mode and weighs 20 pounds.
The NB-SC600-SLI notebook, which starts around $3000, integrates an AMD Turion processor and up to 2 GB of system memory. The two GeForce 7800 GTX cards deliver 1680 by 1050 pixels, allowing you to observe virtually any disturbance in The Force.
Need more mobility? How about a Dell Dual Core notebook ($699) or UMPC with a LightVu headmounted display.
Need something bigger? Check out the iCluster, a 50-megapixel wall of information , like the one at the Scripps Visualization Center (below).
Six Power Mac G5s drive twelve, 30″ Apple Cinema Displays. They are controlled from a seventh Power Mac G5.
UCSD s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) has developed the OptiPuter and switched fiber for visualizing and collaborating on huge databases. It runs open source graphics middleware developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago s Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL).
The 50 Megapixel display comes in handy for the EarthScope program, using the USArray. The $100 million, NSF funded, USArray, is a nationwide network of 400 linked seismometers. There are currently 157 stations in the West returning live data via cellular and satellite data links via WildBlue and Hughes.
WiMAX might consume less power and provide faster speeds. Perhaps XML Standardization for Seismic Data can also be applied to city cloud sensor nets.
Also handy for monitoring sea floor data loggers, Infrasound Arrays and devices used in the Neptune Project to monitor the Juan de Fuca subduction zone. Here are some recent and notable quakes as well as the Latest Earthquakes in the World. A Google Earth flyby of active volcanos gets data from Volcano World.
Classrooms can share geologic databases or create rich, dynamic geospacial tagged “tours”. Project it on a wall. Skype collaborators. Who’s going to stop you? The tools are free.
The federal government is unlikely to be much help when the Avian Flu (H5N1) arrives and people start dropping like flies. Incidentlog.com maps police, fire and 911 alerts in more than 85 cities across the country. You can track the flyways of wild birds with Google Earth. Google Earth projects abound. Many whole states are now covered with high resolution, color data including Indiana, Missouri, and New Jersey. The Google Earth Community has 3D Models built from Sketchup (below).
Open Croquet (WikiPedia), is a 3D world similar to Second Life, but is open source and runs P2P, says Robert Scoble. Within the 3D, virtual reality environments, participants can enjoy synchronous telepresence, shared access to the internet and can design complex spaces individually or while working with others.
Steve Ballmer will dedicate Portland State’s new engineering building next week. Microsoft contributed $200,000 to PSU’s new facility and Google $350,000. An $8 million gift to the College from The Massiah Foundation made it possible. The Open Source Development Lab is also based in nearby Beaverton.
Brian Atwater (above), describes the Cascadia Earthquake of 1700, which may be linked to the Bonneville slide which blocked the Columbia River. That’s Wave Energy. Give that man some connectivity!
There are hundreds of Web 2.0 applications now available to run up the flag pole. Community Centers might integrate coffee shops, game parlors, child care and remote offices. X-Box Live for fun and Vexcel for education. Bike to work with Google Earth on an Ultraportable.
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