Posts Tagged ‘gadgets’

Holy Tesla, Batman

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

I’m still trying to keep up with the TED talks, and today’s is a cool one for anyone interested in either Tesla or the concept of broadcast power generally. To be fair this is a much shorter-range version of broadcast power than Tesla was after, but still…
The presenter is the CEO of WiTricity, which is [...]

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Notes From The Augmented Hobo Community

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

One of the things I’m interested in generally is the notion of augmented or mediated reality–everything from simple HUD overlays to the kind of stuff Karl Schroeder so excellent explored in Lady Of Mazes. Some of the ideas that were clearly science fiction just a little while ago are turning into real street level science [...]

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A Monday Night Gallimaufry

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Let’s see if we can close some of the myriad tabs I’ve opened in the process of trying to catch up with everything that happened in the non-work world while I was off spending time at the Melbourne office:

I’m quite impressed at the 16-year old (from the city where I did my university days) who [...]

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Lab Upgrade

Friday, March 21st, 2008

No normal blogging today, since I was mostly busy with family stuff. For cynical Good Friday stuff, hit the search bar and look for “Good Friday” or “Eostre”, and you can read last year’s stuff.
The other thing keeping me busy was an upgrade to “the lab”, also known as “my office”, or “the library” depending [...]

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I am a child

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

So we’ve pretty much established that I’m 35, but I’ve got to tell you, I’m basically still a child.
When I see something like the page of “revenge” items at Spymall, I just laugh like an evil ten-year old, and spend time coming up with ill-advised scenarios in which I could use that stuff. (And I [...]

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Fall notes

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I have travelled over 2000km so far this week. The vast majority of this has been on more or less empty highways, driving through absolutely resplendent fall colours, mostly on routes that parallel rivers. To put this in the simplest possible terms, this has been one hell of a powerful nature toke.
I know I resisted [...]

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A Targeted Miscellany

Monday, September 10th, 2007

A Sunday link list, of things that made me think of specific people.
For my lovely wife, to share with her radical feminist associates, is the story of the most famous pirate of all time. Especially the bits about the pirate laws governing female prisoners. And the end of the story.
Also for her yet another story [...]

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