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Lately, you may have seen a tab pop up while using your everyday Google Services: “We’re changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters. Learn more.” Indeed. The new Google Privacy Policy, taking effect on March 1st 2012, matters. To even mention how deeply Google has permeated our lives seems silly. For a whole ton of
So Minority Report came out in 2002 and everybody got stoked on how Tom Cruise was controlling that computer with nothing but exaggerated hand gestures and that squinty brow of his. Well screw that! Brain-Computer Interface, guys! Let’s not beat around the science bush here and just come out with it: these things let you
Okay. I admit it: I look over your shoulder on the train. I see you playing Angry Birds, poker and backgammon on your smart phones, and, hey, I don’t blame you. The daily commute on Public Transit is a weird thing: Here’s this stretch of time where we all sit together in silence and try
I’m new to Tablet Computing. I have an iPhone, a laptop, and a desktop computer. Adding another processor to the mix seemed, if nothing else, silly. But I was curious: What is life with Tab like? In this case my curiosity harmed no cats. All it killed was a ton of time spent playing awesome
When Parkinson’s Disease is a thing of the past, I’ll take comfort in knowing that I played a part in its eradication. Emphasis on ‘played’, de-emphasis on ‘I’. The truth is that hundreds of other Citizen Scientists helped me out. All we had to do was play a game. Up front, Phylo is a puzzle
On the morning of Jan. 18, 2012, America woke up to a digital reenactment of Real Life as experienced by humans at the turn of the century. We were shook. We called and emailed and berated our elected representatives. Surprisingly—given the recent string of questionable legislation passed well within earshot of public clamor—they listened. With
In my last post, I looked at what was up with the HUD Contact Lenses and Electroadhesive ‘Spiderman’ Gloves featured in Mission:Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Today we’re going to see the Magnetic Levitation Suit used by The Hurt Locker star, Jeremy Renner, and the real star of M:I-GP, the BMW i8 concept car. Item 3:
Movies like Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol are certainly entertaining. But for those of us stoked on living in “The Future”, they also provide a great public service. If companies don’t think they can sell it, they won’t front the money for R&D, and we won’t get awesome stuff to play with. So when we see
The process of 3D printing is called additive manufacturing, and it’s a pretty simple idea: A machine squirts some material in layers based on a 3D computer model until the design has become a real life object. There’s a few different methods and processes to choose from, but here I’m just focusing on “Fused Deposition