Posts tagged “technology”
Print-a-Lung
“Three-dimensional tubes of living tissue have been printed using modified desktop printers filled with suspensions of cells instead of ink. The work is a first step towards printing complex tissues or even entire organs.”
Personal LAN
This Is a Call Can any of my beautiful readers recommend a good link for connecting PCs? I’m looking for some sort of PC-to-PC software. I have a USB cable designed for PC-to-PC communications, but the software provided is chunkus blowus. (That’s Latin for “blows chunks”, of course.) I’ve been searching Google and NoNags but
Beer-Opening Robot
Just when you thought beer-drinking couldn’t get any better, along comes the Autonomous Beer-Opening Robot, or ABOR. It was built by Jean-Phillipe Clerc, a mechanical engineering master’s student at the University of Florida, as part of the school’s Intelligent Machine Design Laboratory class. link via Visual Distortion
Oqo
A little tiny computer running Windows XP
Gum Disposal System
GumPals are circular, 3″ dry waxed tissues, made specifically for the disposal of chewing gum. The tissues come in 4 different dispenser models, and can be purchased in a variety of combinations. Refillable dispensers come with a supply of approximately 200 tissue refills. link via 50 cups
Mobile Phones
I don’t know if I’m ever going to get used to “hands-free” kits for mobile phones. I was inadvertantly fooled by a man speaking into his “hands-free” kit this afternoon. This was probably the thirtieth time this has happened o me. I was strolling through the Century City Mall when I found myself walking towards
Little Pieces of Paper
from a review of “The Social Life of Paper” On a busy day, a typical air-traffic controller might be in charge of as many as twenty-five airplanes at a time – some ascending, some descending, each at a different altitude and travelling at a different speed. He peers at a large, monochromatic radar console, tracking
A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away …
The 106-bed facility … features robot bears whose sole purpose is to watch over the elderly residents. … The fur-covered robotic assistant, simply known as Teddy, hides a microcomputer and a local network connection. It is the latest in a series of companion robots … Previous efforts included cats and a surprisingly appealing wombat. link
Nanotech
The minuscule size of most nanotubes – hollow cylinders of carbon measuring only a few billionths of a meter wide – boggles the mind. Even more astounding may be that scientists can conceivably nestle these straws inside one another like Matryoshka dolls, with the inner set of tubes sliding in and out a billion times
AI
Life began with direct coding on bare, carbon-chemistry hardware, like amino acids and proteins. Higher programming languages, like DNA and RNA, evolved gradually. Computers began in a similar fashion, with programmers coding on to the bare machinery of their circuits. Higher programming languages have followed, each generation more powerful than the last. There is, of