Evolution of the Species

EFIKA@Riverwash

The Riverwash Party has been a great success and a lot of fun. 75 people participated in the event. Counting the staff, there were 80.

The EFIKA was there too!

Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski made the EFIKA presentation. Linux and MOS 2.0 were demonstrated. The 3D Desktop feature coded by Michal "Kiero" Wozniak was reported to be quite stunning. The demo competition was won by Kiero and Przemek "Ubik" Kuca (Media-D) on an Amiga. The demo is titled Nameless. There should be a video of the event highlights ready in a few days. In the meanwhile, we are pleased to been a sponsor for Riverwash. Grzegorz Juraszek was the lead organizer and Grzegorz, you did a great job.

Thanks to the Riverwash team for organizing a great event!

The Community is the Computer - a Super Computer.

EFIKA Project #337

There is change afoot. Traditional media, such as newspapers, radio, television, as well as movies and music, and the method by which they are delivered to consumers have faced and are facing transformation and commercial instability. Likewise, the consumer electronics industry has been altered dramatically by the advancement of technology.

MPAA-NATO Theater Poster

Wired ran an article (Teen Pleads Guilty in Rare Theater Filming Case) featuring the same Poster earlier this week. Check it out.

Our focus in this post is not so much the hard-line the MPAA has to take against piracy (that is another subject), it is the image above. It seems ironic that at issue was a 20 second recording of Transformers.

What do you geit when you geit all these folks together...

Linus Torvalds summed it up in his interview with EFYtimes:

Q: The last I heard, you were using a PPC G4/5 for your main personal machine -- what are you using now, and why?

Linus: I ended up giving up on the PowerPC, since nobody is doing any workstations any more, and especially since x86-64 has become such an undeniable powerhouse. So these days, I run a bog-standard PC, with a normal Core 2 Duo on it.

EFIKA-TV

Computing and television are becoming more than the sum of the parts. This is more than a new media. It is a whole new way of thinking. The process is underway with the 5200B and the EFIKA, but it is not as if it did not come from something...

CES 2004 - Genesi Booth

FTF 2005 - Freescale Pavilion

Best of Show FTF 2005 - Genesi Booth

CES 2006 - Freescale Booth

The Community is the Computer - a Super Computer.

Are being updated!

The Forums at PowerDeveloper are busy, but if one digs a bit deeper you will find the EFIKA Project Blogs. Julien Reiss updated his EFIKA Case Project this morning. Domen Puncer released Slefika 11.0 earlier this week. Grzegorz Kraszewski updated MediaLogger and Denis Hilliard continues to pound away at the Remote Aid Deployment System. So, come on and stop by to check out all the latest Project Blog updates. And, be sure, all this moves ahead to the next generation EFIKA2.

The second AROS EFIKA has been shipped. The AROS EFIKA Bounty sits at $2029. So far, we have thrown in $1611 and we will be happy to increase the pot as progress is made. The task now rests with Bill Evans who will port AROS Research Operating System to the EFIKA. That is great! Please feel free to add to the inspiration.

As mentioned the other day, the goal is Compounding Development across operating systems and applications, as well as, cultures and languages.

That is what they call it at Curtin - Western Australia's largest University.

Mechatronics is the title given to the subdiscipline of engineering which studies the integration of mechanical and electronic technologies to create 'intelligent' machines, systems and controllers. High levels of automation in manufacturing environments require designers with skills in the mechanical sciences since the machinery and robotic equipment utilised are fundamentally mechanical in nature.