Thursday, October 28, 2010

Smelly Printing?

A Printer That Can Print Scents?? What an awesome concept! Scientists from the Keio University in Japan are developing a printer that can print scents onto the paper. As of right now, they can get the printer to print out scents but there are a few kinks in their plan. First, the scent doesn't say on the paper for much longer than a sniff or too. Second, they have yet to develop how a printer will hold and print many different scents at one time.
But think... the possibilities are endless for something like this! They could print menus with this printer and you would be able to smell the dish before ordering it. They could print cologne or perfume ads with this printer so you wouldn't have the annoying flap in magazines to smell them.
I'm pretty excited about this, but I doubt we'll see anything like this being mass produced anytime soon.
It's just like those billboards that were supposed to give off the smell of a steak if that's what was being advertised on the board... I have never seen one of those!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Happy Birthday Windows 7!


Windows 7 turned the big O-N-E this weekend and it is certainly a celebration for Microsoft. When Windows 7 was about to come out, Microsoft was afraid of bragging about it too much because of the Vista debacle. But a year later, Windows 7 is a phenomenal success that has eclipsed expectations. It continues to earn the title of fastest selling operating system in Microsoft history. In the one year since its release, it has sold 240 million copies and claims that 93% of new PCs come with Windows 7 pre-installed. Now the Windows users that are still using XP should jump on the Windows 7 bandwagon since it has proven itself. Excluding all of the cool features that Windows 7 has, XP is a lot less secure than Windows 7. It was created nearly 10 years ago and half of the viruses and other security issues that we face today weren’t even thought of when XP was released. So let’s help Microsoft celebrate to Windows 7’s birthday and all switch to it!