For the last little while, vacation time, jet lag and three weeks worth of e-mail/voice mail have joined their sinister forces to create a great sucking whirlpool of unproductiveness and exhaustion — one that pulled my desire to post down to the deepest darkest abysses of the undersea. As of today, I’ve returned home, […]
Entries Tagged as 'tech'
10,000-year clock billed as “world’s slowest computer”
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: art · beautiful · design · neato · sustainability · tech
genetically modified insects poop crude oil
June 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments
A California company called LS9 says it has done the impossible: come up with cheap, homegrown, renewable “carbon-negative” oil to satisfy the world’s growing fuel needs. With bug poo.
From the Times:
To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs -– very, very small ones –- so that when they feed on agricultural waste such […]
Tags: climate · consumer · environment · fauna · nature · news · opinion · science · tech · transport
firefox 3 released today, eager users crash mozilla’s site
June 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
[Edit: as of 14h15 EST, the site seems to be up and running again — nice and speedy, too. I’m impressed.]
As of 13h00 EST (10h00 PST), or right about the time this post is published, Firefox 3 will be unleashed upon the masses, and it’s apparently good. Really good. As if you […]
mind-control monkeys and robots join forces to overthrow humans
June 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Well, sort of. From the International Herald Tribune:
Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary, scientists reported on Wednesday.
The report, released online […]
Tags: curio · design · fauna · medicine · neato · science · tech
honda’s asimo robot conducts the detroit symphony orchestra
June 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
There’s something just beautiful about this. And something creepy…
ASIMO can run, speak, climb stairs, serve coffee, navigate through crowds of people, link up to computer networks, deliver weather reports and recognize faces, speech and environments. He works as a receptionist at Honda’s offices in Saitama, Japan.
In case you’re interested, ASIMO is taking some […]
Tags: beautiful · design · funny · movies/tv/video · music · neato · tech
dell found guilty of lousy customer service and misleading ads
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
You know we’re in a sad state of affairs when we call customer service and we’re happy to spend “just” 10 or 15 minutes waiting to talk to a human being. Other than saying a few choice words to your poor hapless customer service rep, there’s never been much you could do about it. […]
Tags: consumer · darn tootin' · law and order · neato · tech
real-life rocketman straps on jetpack and flies through the alps
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments
As much as I tend to rip into CNN, every so often they carry something that I just have to share. Today their site features a video of a guy who jumps out of airplanes and flies around with a jet-powered contraption that looks like it was made in his basement.
Maybe it’s because I […]
Tags: cnn · curio · movies/tv/video · neato · tech
