The Geek Church

Today is the conclusion. I realize that this is Memorial Day, and it is actually appropriate, because there is a memorial in this chapter.

Now that the first book is over, I’m sure you are all wondering: when is the second book? That is an excellent question. It is written, but it needs a serious edit. It is also a lot longer, like twice as long as the first.

I’m hoping to have it out by July or August, but don’t quote me on that one.

If you missed a chapter or two or three, then you should head to the ever-updating index here.

Anyway, the chapter is after the jump.

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This is a Smart Fridge, and you should see what it does.

Here’s the Geotagging Dongle uses PhotoTracker Plus.

This is a water-resistant cover for the Flip Ultra and Flip Ultra HD.

Here is an iPhone app known as StreetMuseum that can take you back to London of the 19th century.

Check out Wolfgang’s Vault on Boxee.

This is the ReQuest Media Server, and there might be some copyright issues.

Speaking of copyright issues, Warner Brothers might be facing some. Whoa!

This weekend, some method was discovered that could do Netflix on the iPad and iPhone, but not anymore.

At Computex, Asus unveiled their Eee Pad EP121.

Here’s a new iPad RSS aggregator known as the Pulse.

Those that want to take their iPad around watery surroundings should use the Waterwear.

Best Buy has a PosiMotion Helix for the iPhone and iPod Touch games.

Check out the McLovin Quadband phone.

This is the iWeight, and there is not an App for that.

Windows Phone wants to work with Touch Dimensions for some mobile games.

Here’s a way to bring Flash to the iPhone OS with Smokescreen.

Lastly, here is an iPhone Revolver. See it to believe it.

In this modern age, researchers, scientists and inventors continue to explore the possibilities of technology to find new ways of doing ordinary, regular things. For example, there is ongoing research to replace oil, gas and coal with solar, wind and hydro power as environmentally safer and easily renewable sources of energy. Now there is a concept for a car that has absolutely no need for a steering wheel.

This concept developed by designer Yanchao Wang is called The Swing Beginner and it is meant to increase the effectiveness of using space inside of a vehicle while making driving easier. In this conceptual design, a configuration of three seats can be adjusted to one seat, the trunk is retractable for extension or shortening and the car door is located on the front of the vehicle. Furthermore, a rocking chair equipped with joysticks on the armrests and gravity sensor pedals was designed to guide the car’s directional motion. Thus, a regular car’s need for a steering wheel would be obsolete. Similar to a video game controller, the rocking chair and joystick armrests would be used to move the vehicle forward, backward and making turns. The Swing Beginner car would also have non-rotation, radius wheels and a large dome acting as windows to make driving possible with only the simple movements of your body.

As its name implies, the Swing Beginner concept car is intended for new drivers to make operating a motor vehicle less difficult and complicated. This design also features the ability to use the backrest as a wearable backpack. Personally, I don’t think a car seat’s backrest was ever meant to be a backpack and the design of this car concept looks like something out of the Jetsons cartoon. This design idea may have potential as a car of the future but right now it seems as realistic as making a flying car.

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Through applied science and human creativity, technology is a means of finding solutions to long-term problems in regular life and making feats achievable that were once thought impossible. One problem in everyday life is a deaf person’s inability to hear the sound of music. However, German designer Frederik Podzuweit is developing a sensory device concept to make music accessible for deaf people through their sense of feeling or touch.

Podzuweit’s idea is based on synesthesia, which is a form of stimulus using one sensory ability of the human body to generate the perception of a different sensory ability. This concept is called Music For Deaf People. According to Podzuweit’s conceptual design, a regular audio device like an iPod will send vibrations of bass, midtones and treble to a secondary device like headphones, which might be placed on a person’s neck or shoulders. Furthermore, volume and track number would be adjusted by using large, conveniently located controls resting on the top of the secondary device.

Frederik Podzuweit also intends for Music For Deaf People to be used by people who don’t have a hearing impairment. If this concept ever becomes a real world product, it could also be embraced by consumers without hearing problems as a unique way to enjoy music by feeling it instead of simply hearing it. Thus, a day may come when musical devices are used through the human sense of feeling and touch.

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Okay, this is the second-to-last chapter. It’s where all the action happens before the epilogue!

If you missed a chapter or two or three, then you should head to the ever-updating index here.

Anyway, the chapter is after the jump.

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Today, we are going to have the three final chapters. Consider it a huge finale for the final season.

If you missed a chapter or two or three, then you should head to the ever-updating index here.

Anyway, the chapter is after the jump.

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