Alex Reid

You can easily have emails sent to you, forward on to your cell phone via text messaging. You just need to know the number and the carrier.

Here is a list of the emails of different carriers:

* Rogers Wireless: [10-digit phone number]@pcs.rogers.com
* Fido: [10-digit phone number]@fido.ca
* Telus: [10-digit phone number]@msg.telus.com
* Bell Mobility: [10-digit phone number]@txt.bell.ca
* Kudo Mobile: [10-digit phone number]@msg.koodomobile.com
* MTS: [10-digit phone number]@text.mtsmobility.com
* President’s Choice: [10-digit phone number]@txt.bell.ca
* Sasktel: [10-digit phone number]@sms.sasktel.com
* Solo: [10-digit phone number]@txt.bell.ca
* Virgin: [10-digit phone number]@vmobile.ca

You need to replace the part [the 10-digit phone number] before the “@” with the number you’re sending the message to.

Most hosting companies offer email forwarding, check to make sure yours does. If not, this hosting company does and this hosting company offers email forwarding as well.

A team from the MIT media lab has created a camera with a “shutter speed” of one trillion exposures per second, enabling it to record light itself traveling from one point to another.

The project began as an effort to see around corners. Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the Media Lab, said he wanted to do this by  capturing reflected light and then computing the paths of the returning light, thereby building images coming from rooms that would otherwise not be directly visible.

From the project web site.

The new technique, which we call Femto Photography, consists of femtosecond laser illumination, picosecond-accurate detectors and mathematical reconstruction techniques. Our light source is a Titanium Sapphire laser that emits pulses at regular intervals every ~13 nanoseconds. These pulses illuminate the scene, and also trigger our picosecond accurate streak tube which captures the light returned from the scene. The streak camera has a reasonable field of view in horizontal direction but very narrow (roughly equivalent to one scan line) in vertical dimension. At every recording, we can only record a ’1D movie’ of this narrow field of view. In the movie, we record roughly 480 frames  and each frame has a roughly 1.71 picosecond exposure time. Through a system of mirrors, we orient the view of the camera towards different parts of the object and capture a movie for each view. We maintain a fixed delay between the laser pulse and our movie starttime. Finally, our algorithm uses this captured data to compose a single 2D movie of roughly 480 frames each with an effective exposure time of 1.71 picoseconds.

Even though the camera itself is bulky and takes a long time to process the frames, Dr. Raskar says the technology has a variety of interesting commercial applications. One of his graduate students, Jaewon Kim, published a thesis last year envisioning portable CAT-scanning devices.

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It’s only been a few days since the release of WordPress 3.3, and naturally the WordPress hardcores are working on version 3.4. Specifically the next upgrade will include the new year’s default theme – twenty twelve – which will start with fresh code.

It’s young in thought but the core features planned include:

• mobile version of a website
• variable height header image
• default to static front page
• editor styles the same as front end.
• no featured image in header

The day after the new iPhone 4S was released, the world lost Steve Jobs.

It was only a few weeks ago that Jobs had decided to step down from the company he built – twice – and the world was dreading what he was dreading, he had cancer.

Jobs was a perfectionist, he was obsessed with doing things the right way, he some times swore and screamed at his employees but ultimately he revolutionized the way we look at phones and buy music.

It might be fitting that Jobs’ last official announcement to Apple fans was regarding the iCloud service, since Jobs is probably in the clouds now himself.

Five years ago, I wrote a quick blog post about the laser keyboard that would project a keyboard. The technology exists but no one has applied to it a mobile phone, yet. Aatma Studio created some great concept videos about cool features that should be included in the iPhone 5 expected to be available this Fall.

Check this out.

It’s not “fake”, it’s “a concept” that is way overdue.