The US is apparently developing technology to detect Terrorists by their body odor. As a teenager, I remember my father telling my when he was in the military (he was deployed to Korea during the Vietnam Conflict) that near the DMZ they were under very strict diets. Basically no smelly foods. The Koreans couldn’t [...]
April 20, 2010
A perfect name for a company doing kind of freaky stuff. “Think-Tac-Toe” is the initial game developed by The Company, which utilizes thought controlled technology to play the game of tic-tac-toe with the power of your mind against the computer. The player selects the box of choice by moving right, left, up and down with their [...]
February 1, 2010
Which nations have the most satellites orbiting the Earth? Russia has the most followed by the US. Before you get all Cold War freaky, most of Russia’s are inactive. Basically just orbiting junk. With Obama cutting NASA’s budget, who’s going to clean up this mess? For more cool visualization, check out Michael Paukner. Related articles by Zemanta Obama budget would [...]
January 11, 2010
so i have this thought, and i would kind of like some feedback, if i could. ok, so jason gilmore actually planted this seed over 2 decades ago without realizing what would become of it, well jason, here is my thought. jason told me of a story about a conversation between a 2 dimensional object [...]
December 28, 2009
This is the most cool/freaky thing I’ve seen in a while: Embedded Augmented Reality contact lenses. On one hand anything to do with the eye freaks me out, even more than that scene from Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan when Khan puts that bug thing in Chekov’s ear. Brian Lam at Gizmodo has two posts on [...]
December 16, 2009
Image by Lainy Voom via Flickr Here’s a story my favorite Cyborg Anthropologist @caseorganic Amber Case, would love. Although Katherine argues we are Symbionts vs Amber’s Cyborgs, either way we’ve developed what some would say is an (arguably) unhealthy relationship with technology. [W]e have become symbionts, says Katherine Hayles, author of “How We Became Posthuman.” Just as [...]
December 11, 2009
Image by Tac Anderson via Flickr Maybe it’s the long, dark, winters in Seattle that have turned University of Washington professor Peter Ward into such a doom and gloom guy. The Seattle Weekly has a write up of his new book (which I’m seriously considering reading). Ward’s specialty is in mass extinctions. And having studied death on [...]
April 20, 2009
My thoughts and prayers are with Mr Hawking and his family. Something many people may not know about Hawking is that he is also a great children’s author. Along with his Daughter Stephen authored George’s Secret Key to the Universe. My kids (even my 4 yr old) sat enraptured to the book as my wife [...]
February 18, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Satellite collision threatens space assets The details of my post-apocalyptic book where the Internet goes away is starting to fall into place tags: collision, NASA, satellite, hyper Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Related articles by Zemanta Satellite reveals surprising cosmic ‘weather’ at edge of solar system (scienceblog.com) Yee-hah! There’s water on [...]
April 26, 2010
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