I came across this video that shows what plain old-fashion ingenuity can do. The guy from MIT (surprise) thought of everything that a person might need and tried to make a machine that could do it all. This is obviously a prototype but the concept is sound. The principle is to ‘make’ the pates on-demand… Read more →
I was reading through my RSS feeds as I so often do and I came across this article which made me realise just how far we have come and how little we need to go to become a completely paperless society. Epson have been developing electronic paper for a while now, previously producing a 7″… Read more →
But the war is not between man and machine but between moths with machines… and other moths with other machines…? Believe it or not there are companies experimenting with robots and moths that are very reminiscent of two very famous films. Terminator-Moth The idea of an internal robot occupying the space of the moths ‘entrails’… Read more →
I was browsing TED Talks and came across this video. The guy is basically designing new forms of life, at the level of bacteria but still he managed to transfer a chromosome from one to another and get the new chromosome to overwrite the existing one by making it think the existing one was foreign…. Read more →
I was reading this article and was amazed to see the progress of solid state drives (SSD). It wasn’t that long ago when it was expensive enough to buy a 64MB pen drive and now a company is preparing to ship “in volume” a 1.6TB drive for use in computing. This really is moving on… Read more →
While perusing my usual plethora of RSS feeds I came across something that I see every now and again (thanks to The Register) which is a patent application from Apple. Normally when these come out it marks a milestone in the development of their technologies. For example I saw the patent for the iPod Touch’s… Read more →