MIThril http://wearables.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/mithril The Enchantment Window Manager http://albireo.mit.edu/enchantment.html Steve Mann http://wearcam.org Wearable Computing www.wearablecomputing.com Xybernaut www.xybernaut.com WetPC www.aims.gov.au/wetpc Twiddlers www.handykey.com 5th International Symposium on Wearable Computers http://iswc.gatech.edu Bristol Wearable Computing project http://wearables.cs.bris.ac.uk/ Charmed www.charmed.com MARS Mobile Augmented Reality Systems www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/projects/mars/mars.html BARS http://ait.nrl.navy.mil/vrlab/projects/BARS/BARS.html Lart www.lart.tudelft.nl @ Monitor Learners still don’t get the same deal Russell Wildeman The […]
Impeccable credentials REVIEW Gavin Foster Audi Allroad A6 2,7 T Quattro R392 250 Audi tells us not to use capital letters in the name of their all-wheel drive wagon, but “allroad” looks too silly for words, and anyway, they lost the war, so we’ll do it the English way. From here on, Allroad it is. […]
In your ear Thebe Mabanga Recently Metro fm unveiled a new line-up three weeks after appointing a new station manager, former marketing manager Lesley Ntloko. Both changes were made with good intentions but are flawed. First the line-up. The most exciting part is the arrival of Phat Joe on the midday show (noon-3pm). Phat Joe […]
THE Angolan army (FAA) and the Unita rebel movement are engaged in “heavy fighting” in the northern part of the central highland’s province of Bie, Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Wednesday. The report said that fighting was concentrated around Gamba, a village in the Nharea district about 100km north of the provincial capital, Kuito. […]
THE army on the break-away island of Anjouan has deposed Colonel Said Abeid, who this year entered into a reconciliation agreement with the federal authorities in Comoros, diplomatic sources in the Comoros capital of Moroni said on Thursday. Sources said soldiers had encircled the presidency and arrested Abeid. “The situation in Anjouan is however reported […]
Selby Baqwa has thrown a strange spanner in the works of his own inquiry Mungo Soggot and Stefaans Brmmer The Office of the Public Protector has asked a star witness of the public inquiry into the arms deal to drop his civil case against the government if he wants to testify at the inquiry. The […]
A cricketer’s body was exhumed this week to discover the true cause of death, writes Paul Kirk Tertius Bosch, fast bowler and dentist, died aged 33 from a disease that afflicts fewer than one person in 100 000 and kills just 2% of its victims. Now a series of irregularities and the preliminary results of […]
South Africa have five Tests to get things right before they take on Australia Peter Robinson Whatever the claims of men such as Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara (not to mention wonderful bowlers like Courtney Walsh, Allan Donald and Shane Warne), it is difficult to dismiss the credentials of Steve Waugh as being simply the […]
be crushed’ Jaspreet Kindra Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana likens the loss of workers as the restructuring of public enterprises takes place to the sacrifice of human life during the African National Congress’s struggle against apartheid. “I was just remarking that the Reconstruction and Development Programme implies rebuilding and destroying apartheid structures. There is going […]
Ngwako Modjaji Henrietta Mqokomiso, who was evicted from her house in Alexandra township in June when bulldozers demolished her home of 12 years, is being given a new house by the Gauteng Department of Housing. The Mail & Guardian reported last month that the Legal Resources Centre was preparing a legal battle on behalf of […]