Technology

A team of Japanese scientists were able to give a paralyzed man the feeling of how it would be if he could walk again. The man – who has not walked over 30 years – volunteered for an experiment at the Keio University in Japan.

In the experiment the man put on headgear that had the ability to sense brainwaves that were connected to his legs and arms. He was able to ‘walk’ again by imagining it as a character in Second Life – a very popular virtual world.

Many consumers are looking for the newer cars that have comfort, power, and of course the technology that many of us love – but don’t necessarily need. Many of the top technology devices that they want are the navigation systems and the in car telematics like the Ford SYNC and General Motors’ OnStar. Consumers from the age of 16-24 are the ones that look for cars like this.

Napster has decided to take on Apple’s iTunes store as their competitor in the digital music service arena by launching the world’s largest MP3 download store. This store offers more than 6 million songs to users from all around the world.

This new store will have many of the top music labels and thousands of independent labels. All of the songs will be formatted as MP3 and will be compatible with many of the digital music devices that are available on the market including many cellular devices.

Microsoft and Kia Automotive Group have created an agreement with each other to put Microsoft’s Automotive Platform into Kia and Hyundai 2010 models. Microsoft’s Platform is the technology that is used for the system of the Ford Sync.

For anyone who is not familiar; the Ford Sync allows drivers to incorporate cell phones and MP3 players with their vehicles. This gives them the ability to use hands-free calling and voice command to find the song they want.

Apple iTunes has sold more than 4 billion songs and has accounts for more than 70% of the digital music that is sold all around the world. For only being open five years they have come a long way and it will be interesting to see how far it will go in the next five years. As digital music becomes more popular will there be enough competition out there to bring its sales down?

After August 3rd Microsoft will be disabling the ability for people to play songs that have been purchased and downloaded off of its MSN Music service on brand new devices. “As of August 31st, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers,” Microsoft stated in an e-mail that was sent to former MSN Music customers.

Many of us when we drive are too busy talking on our phones, blaring the music, yelling at our kids, or just thinking too loudly that we never hear the sirens of a cop until he whizzes by us. Then you are glad that he wasn’t after you the whole time. The Metropolitan police are tired of this are finding ways of fixing this problem.