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Chris Jablonski

Chris Jablonski
Christopher Jablonski is a freelance technology writer. Previously, he was the manager of marketing editorial at CBS Interactive, delivering client solutions on BNET, ZDNet, and TechRepublic. Prior to joining CBS (CNET Networks), Christopher worked as a research analyst at IDG Communications, Inc. and before that was an analyst for a silicon valley start-up, that' still around today. He was once a contributor to ZDNet's Between the Lines blog.

Christopher received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. With over 10 years in the tech field, he's a budding futurist with a curiosity for transformational technologies, studying the busy intersection of the Internet, business, and society. In his spare time he runs an apparel business and is a disk jockey.

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Emerging trends in technology and new developments in science will affect the way we live. Chris Jablonski selects and analyzes news about our future that you'll almost never find anywhere else.
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  • Fly corneas prove viable for biomimetic surfaces, i.e. solar cells

    By Chris Jablonski | July 28, 2010, 12:26am PDT

    Rows of tiny raised blowfly corneas may pave the way to easy manufacturing of bio-mimetic surfaces, surfaces that mimic the properties of biological tissues, according to Penn State researchers.

  • Video trailers for next week's Siggraph 2010

    By Chris Jablonski | July 24, 2010, 4:27pm PDT

    SIGGRAPH, the world’s largest computer graphics expo, kicks off tomorrow at the Los Angeles Convention Center for five days dedicated to computer graphics and interactive technologies, such...

  • School to build world's highest-res 'holodeck' facility

    By Chris Jablonski | July 15, 2010, 11:25pm PDT

    With the help of a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Stony Brook University will build what they call a “Reality Deck” capable of providing visitors with 1.25...

  • Yale bioethicist warns of singularity's perils at futurist gathering

    By Chris Jablonski | July 9, 2010, 12:35pm PDT

    The World Future Society’s yearly confab got underway last night in Boston with a keynote from Wendell Wallach, a bioethicist, lecturer and scholar at Yale University.

  • MIT, Harvard researchers create programmable self-folding origami sheets

    By Chris Jablonski | June 28, 2010, 11:53pm PDT

    Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) have developed self-folding smart sheets of fiberglass that largely rely on the ancient art of origami.

  • The New Polymath: Interview with author Vinnie Mirchandani

    By Chris Jablonski | June 17, 2010, 4:59pm PDT

    Polymath is Greek for renaissance person; someone with the ability to do many remarkable things because they are experts across many disciplines. In this interview, Vinnie Mirchandani, talks about...

  • Wireless power from space: energy salvation?

    By Chris Jablonski | June 15, 2010, 12:25am PDT

    The idea of sending solar power satellites into orbit has been around since the 1970s, but interest has revived in recent years. Japan is wasting no time. The country plans to send its first...

  • A circuit board with an embedded Lithium-ion battery

    By Chris Jablonski | June 7, 2010, 11:39pm PDT

    The bulky batteries that power mobile devices could one day be extinct. Oki Printed Circuits has showcased technology that embeds a 170μm-thick thin-film all-solid-state lithium-ion (Li-ion)...

  • DARPA-funded LittleDog robot shows off new tricks

    By Chris Jablonski | May 31, 2010, 11:47pm PDT

    LittleDog is a four-legged robot designed to learn how to negotiate and traverse unknown rugged and complex terrains. The 5-inch-tall quadruped, manufactured by Boston Dynamics, has been recently...

  • Cheaper and more fashionable gesture-based computing

    By Chris Jablonski | May 23, 2010, 11:36pm PDT

    MIT researchers have developed a system for gesture-based computing using an ordinary webcam, a pair of brightly colored lycra gloves, and software that combs a database of images. The...

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