Ryo back again, taking time away from gunning down bandits on Borderlands to see what tech goodies I can find today. I think some will enjoy the video I came across, really brings back some memories. You’ll see when you get to it.

Since the internet has been out and about in the public, web addresses have always been Latinized as they call it. A measure was approved to look into introducing certain Chinese and Arabic script as approved characters for a web address, a committee still has to vote on it but the chances are high that they will vote to move forward with it. This of course will require some changes to the internet’s Domain Name System so it can translate the new characters into unique identifiers recognizable to the system. On a related note, I get the feeling many more people are going to make use of on screen keyboards for typing in the future.

I remember back in the 8th grade when I first came across the idea of hydrogen fuel cells. It was in an article in this magazine at my school’s library, the article detailed various things about the potential uses of fuel cells. The number one usage listed: power source for cars. This intrigued me so off and on I would check up on the internet for any new developments hoping to see a news headline of “The Car of The Future” or something along those lines. Fast forward to present day, and once again I see hydrogen fuel cells in the news. This time, put to actual use. Unfortunately not in a car, but in a scooter. Suzuki unveiled its concept design for a new scooter that makes use of the UK designed hydrogen fuel cell. This little thing is said to be capable of going up to 220 miles before needing to stop and get refueled. No word on when this thing will come to the consumer’s market, but later this year some working models will be produced. Just one more step towards that “Car of The Future” if you ask me.

Now, how many of you remember Duck Hunt for the NES? How many of you remember trying to find tricky shots to pull off with mirrors? Alright, now how many of you figured out that holding up a very bright light to the front of the gun and pulling the trigger usually worked in cheating the game? Ignoring that, I choose to discuss the most memorable thing about that game. Yes, that’s right…the dog. Laughing at you from the background when one of those feathered fiends slipped off the screen. Why do I bring this up when it obviously isn’t tech related? Because that dog is evil. I finally have a video to prove my point.

Ryo here, and if you get the title for today’s Tech Tuesday then you must be a gamer. If not, well I suppose I can toss up some techie jokes a bit later. Moving right along.

Quick read through my news feed shows me one thing so far: Google is really making some headlines. One thing that made headlines with Google is their service Google Voice. For those that have yet to get a chance to try this service (fun to play jokes on friends with), it offers to transcribe your voice mails and keep a copy of them on your Google Voice account and even e-mail you the transcription. You can search through your voice mails just like you can on Gmail, and before Google made a quick update to the service so could anyone else. Google Search was indexing voice mail transcriptions and allowing people to search for them. Bit of a privacy issue even if the transcription service is meant to be used so you can publish your voice mails. Even though I have only received three voice mails, two of which are unexplained to this day, I still wouldn’t want them to be indexed. At all really, but maybe that’s just me being a privacy nut. Ah well, to each their own right?

Now for the other bit of info about Google that has them in headlines. There was a bit of a scare that Google somehow bypassed Twitter’s privacy settings for accounts that don’t publish their tweets to the public timeline. It appeared that Google was indexing private tweets and making them searchable. What is with the scares over Google and possible privacy invasions lately? Rest assured Twitter users, it has been noted that the only tweets that Google indexes are the public ones and the tweets that were once public but now the account has been switched to private. So no worrying about the omnipotent Google peeking over your shoulder while you spill your feelings out one hundred and forty characters out at a time.

Scientists in Italy have made an interesting advancement in prosthetic limbs. They are testing out a new prosthetic hand that is supposedly capable of transmitting sensory information to the users brain thanks to tiny electronic sensors attached to nerve endings. The test patient is a man who lost his hand to a battle against cancer several years back. If this pans out correctly, this will pave the way for prosthetic researchers to explore a new and viable option of helping victims cope with the loss of limbs.

A friend of mine passed along a video of a really old commercial, just wait and you’ll see how old, and it got a decent chuckle out of me so I decided to share it with the rest of you. Windows has been around a long time, and so has Steve Ballmer.

Alright, that’s a wrap for this week. I’m off to a minimum of two days of playing Borderlands (get the joke now don’t you?) once I pick my copy up from my local Game Stop. I’ll be back next week, unless Borderlands ends up rivaling WoW and Everquest as a life eater that is.

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