Well, maybe not today, but probably pretty soon. Richard Hederstierna, who hails from the Lund Institute of Technology, has created a space-age-lookin’ cooker for your microwave that does something that no one has ever dreamt of before. Maybe someone has, but no one has done it like Haderstierna. The dude has created a device that [...]
You might be wondering what the headline means. The biggest tech-related mistake you’ll ever regret?
I’m not talking about throwing your computer out the window. That I can understand, even if it is pretty dumb (at least cash it in if you want to get rid of it…but I suppose that’s not as satisfying). A computer [...]
Confusion. Novelty. And in the end, a brilliant article written by a 13-year-old in BBC Magazine. The Sony Walkman launched 30 years ago and galvanized the world of portable music. It was the iPod of its time. And it was given to UK thirteen-year-old Scott Campbell in exchange for his iPod.
I think his account [...]
If G.E. is successful, get ready to have your media collection take up less physical space than your actual media players.
According to this article in the New York Times, Shinehart-General Electric has been successful in creating a disc that has the capacity of 100 DVDs. Using holographic technology, scientists have been able to store images [...]
This is easily the Greatest and Best Maureen Dowd Column Ever Written. MoDo travels out to California to visit the hive mind of the Twitter collective in California:
“I sat down with Biz Stone, 35, and Evan Williams, 37, and asked them to justify themselves.
ME: You say the brevity of Twitter enhances creativity. So I [...]
You know what the old-timers say. Back in my day, we didn’t have TV, we sat and read books, we walked two miles to get to the nearest bus station, paid a nickel to get into the city to buy some more books to read when we got home, yadda yadda yadda.
But in all seriousness, [...]
My brother pointed me to this funny little thread on BoingBoing. Basically what they’ve done is create the “Gadget Tribes of Technology,” which are tiny pixelated mannequins representing the different tech types that exist in our culture. Observe:
It’s pretty humorous and apparently quite contagious. Though most of the ones up currently have [...]
Ben Wang, director of Florida State’s High-Performance Materials Institute, likes to make things with paper. But this isn’t your ordinary folio, rather it’s an insanely strong and quite light composite material. And unlike other composite materials, it both conducts electricity, like copper or silicon, and disperses heat, like steel or brass.
The material [...]
