dick applebaum

StrangeDays said:

spice-boy said:

Apple please design a phone that is easier to hold, and has a battery which last 24 hour, I don't care about making a sci-fi movie with mine. 

“Apple, please change physics and chemistry.”

Seriously, there’s a reason no company on earth has magic batteries. Until there is a breakthrough in chemistry and something new is discovered, you can’t fault Apple for having the same batteries as everyone else. 

In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (/jɪn/ and /jɑːŋ, jæŋ/; Chinese: 陰陽 yīnyáng, lit. "dark-bright", "negative-positive") describes how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. In Chinese cosmology, the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of material energy, organized into the cycles of Yin and Yang and formed into objects and lives. Yin is the receptive and Yang the active principle, seen in all forms of change and difference such as the annual cycle (winter and summer),

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang

Back in August 2014, researchers at Michigan State University created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone’s screen) into a photovoltaic solar cell. Unlike other “transparent” solar cells that we’ve reported on in the past, this one really is transparent, as you can see in the photos throughout this story. According to Richard Lunt, who led the research at the time, the team was confident the transparent solar panels can be efficiently deployed in a wide range of settings, from “tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e-reader.”
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Scientifically, a transparent solar panel is something of an oxymoron. Solar cells, specifically the photovoltaic kind, make energy by absorbing photons (sunlight) and converting them into electrons (electricity). If a material is transparent, however, by definition it means that all of the light passes through the medium to strike the back of your eye. This is why previous transparent solar cells have actually only been partially transparent — and, to add insult to injury, they usually they cast a colorful shadow too.

The organic salts absorb UV and infrared, and emit infrared — processes that occur outside of the visible spectrum, so that it appears transparent.

To get around this limitation, the Michigan State researchers use a slightly different technique for gathering sunlight. Instead of trying to create a transparent photovoltaic cell (which is nigh impossible), they use a transparent luminescent solar concentrator(TLSC). The TLSC consists of organic salts that absorb specific non-visible wavelengths of ultraviolet and infrared light, which they then luminesce (glow) as another wavelength of infrared light (also non-visible). This emitted infrared light is guided to the edge of plastic, where thin strips of conventional photovoltaic solar cell convert it into electricity. [Research paper: DOI: 10.1002/adom.201400103 – “Near-Infrared Harvesting Transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators”]

If you look closely, you can see a couple of black strips along the edges of plastic block. Otherwise, though, the active organic material — and thus the bulk of the solar panel — is highly transparent. (Read: Solar singlet fission bends the laws of physics to boost solar power efficiency by 30%.)

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188667-a-fully-transparent-solar-cell-that-could-make-every-window-and-screen-a-power-source

• select a player as the foreground
• isolate that player from the background (including other players)
• highlight the foreground and/or deemphasize the background
• re-composite the foreground and background

radarthekat said:

I think I also know how Apple thinks and I think Apple actually thinks about how many coal-fired power plants exist to power computers with specs beyond what most users need.  It’s a thin line between compute power and compute efficiency, and I think Apple deliberately walks the compute efficiency side of that line, know it could easily spec up (design) a crazy performing machine and knowing they will constantly take flack for not doing so.  TBut that’s the path Apple walks, better for the environment, worse for performance-hungry consumers who don’t think of that bigger picture. 

• building the batteries
• maintaining the batteries
• disposing of the batteries after their useful life

tmay said:

dick applebaum said:

Latko said:

dick applebaum said:

In 2007, Apple’s iPhone changed the way we communicate with each other...

The Xs seems to radically break with that phenomenon

The A12 Bionic chip, especially the neural engine have yet to be exploited... 

I suspect that we’ll soon see Aipple and 3rd-party apps that can dynamically determine what the camera is seeing (signs, buildings, landmarks, etc.) and package that with what the iPhone already knows...

Consider a simple example: your friend is at Niagara Falls and you can see what she is looking at via the Find Frends app...

...the weather is here I wish you were beautiful — oh, you are and so am I (both).

Give me a Siri interface to an AI version of IMDB, and I might be able to track those long ago scenes in film and television that I barely remember, but want to see again.

Latko said:

dick applebaum said:

In 2007, Apple’s iPhone changed the way we communicate with each other...

The Xs seems to radically break with that phenomenon