Friday, September 24, 2004

Democrat & Chronicle: Kodak unveils dream displays, including autostereoscopic 3D display: "Eastman Kodak Co.'s plans for becoming a major provider of technology for viewing digital images, video, words and other data are quietly growing in scope." (Via Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.) 9:16:16 PM

Pretty amazing stuff -- imagine if VirtualPC were rewritten using this... Wired News: Step Toward Universal Computing: "A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit." (Via Wired.) 9:13:32 PM

I'm used to seeing glaciers which move inches a month at most, but an article in the journal Science says that six glaciers in the Antarctic are flowing into the Amundsen Sea at an accelerated pace -- in one case 18 feet a day. If all six glaciers slide completely into the ocean, it would raise sea levels by more than three feet. Wired News: Glaciers Quicken Pace to Sea (Via Wired.) I wonder if a VR could be useful to show the glacial movement, or just regular time-lapse photography would be more effective. 7:23:52 AM

It was widely reported that some Microsoft Windows products had a vulnerability to a maliciously formed JPEG image file. (see this BBC story for background) Well it's not just Windows products -- : "IE for Mac vulnerable to JPEG exploit" (Via Accelerate Your Macintosh! News Page - 9/23/04.) The test file doesn't seem to crash the latest versions of Safari, Omniweb, Camino, Mozilla, Netscape 4.7 or Firefox though. 6:54:01 AM

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