Tag Archives: technology
links for 2007-08-13: brain function
TED | Talks | Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing (video) Probably the most intellectually stimulating 20 minutes I’ve spent this year. Hawkins sketches out a framework for a theory of brian function, and its implications … more…
links for 2007-01-19: techno-progressive vocabulary
Sentient Developments: Must-know terms for the 21st Century intellectual: Redux Transhumanist and technoprogressive perspectives on science, philosophy, ethics, and the future of intelligent life (tags: concepts ai culture technology singularity future)
links for 2007-01-07: more storage
Terabyte hard drives are ready – ZDNet UK (tags: HD storage Terabyte)
Tickle Me Elmo On Fire
Poignant and, yes, disturbing. Also available, shorter and not quite as much fun — but equally poignant, in its way — Furby in the microwave… (via MeFi)
links for 2006-12-07: Kit up, Scary Mary
Kit Up Kit Up is the stuff you weren’t issued but that you couldn’t have done without during your military life. – the military blogs non-standard equipment (tags: military tools tech) YouTube – Scary ‘Mary Poppins’ Trailer Mary Poppins as … more…
Second-hand Daylight
A solar panel in the lid of the jar is connected to some rechargeable batteries inside the jar. Place the jar in direct sunlight during the day (on your window sill or in the garden does the job just fine) … more…
Submarine, 1776
The Turtle by David Bushnel, 1776 (USA) [Chant, 1996]. The Turtle attempted to attach its 150 lb gunpowder charge to the British flagship the Eagle, but failed. – from a collection of illustrations of the history of the submarine. The … more…
HHB FlashMic DRM85
It isn’t all that often that I am siezed with techno-lust, these days, but Wired News’ Listening Post suddenly hits one of my tenderest spots, gadget-wise: The HHB FlashMic DRM85 saves up to 1GB of audio as 16-bit WAV files … more…
More about YouTube
The YouTube movie embedded in the previous post shows two important things about YouTube: YouTube is awesome. Here I am rambling on in a fairly shapeless manner about defamiliarization, which is linked to roosting birds over the fantastic ruin of … more…
Baked seaweed super-capacitor shows promise
Another breakthrough in that difficult power-supply-miniaturization problem: Many supercapacitors currently available have electrodes made of a porous form of graphite-like substance, called activated carbon, which is cheap and can store charge. But the porosity is a drawback, because storing a … more…