Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Apple, Carnegie Mellon University, iPhone, iPod Touch, MacBook, Steve Jobs, University of California, University of California Berkeley
TECHNOLOGY
Trend experts foresee smaller MacBooks and a revamped iPod Touch and predict that Apple may release the products as soon as next month. Analysts also say the company is readying touch-screen features for its laptops that will use iPhone technology. InfoWorld/IDG News Service (8/11)
INVISIBILITY devices, long the realm of science fiction and fantasy, have moved closer after scientists engineered a material that can bend visible light around objects. The breakthrough could lead to systems for rendering anything from people to large objects, such as tanks and ships, invisible to the eye – although this is still years off. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, whose work is funded by the American military, have engineered materials that can control light’s direction of travel. The world’s two leading scientific journals, Science and Nature, are expected to report the results this week. (http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4494440.ece 8/10)
Disney is teaming with Carnegie Mellon University to form a research and development lab for the media conglomerate’s theme parks, television networks and animation studios. Disney plans a similar lab setup at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. (Iwantmedia 8/12, http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/08/11/daily6.html 8/11)
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