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So crazy it might work
“Microsoft's Plan to Beam Internet Over TV Frequencies Is So Crazy It Might Work”
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New artificial spider silk
Thursday, 13Jul2017 Filed in: The Science
Roman concrete
Thursday, 06Jul2017 Filed in: The Science & Design
FireWire
Monday, 03Jul2017 Filed in: Design
“FireWire could replace SCSI and the unwieldy mess of ports and cables at the back of a desktop computer.”
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Thursday, 22Jun2017 Filed in: headlines & The Science
Exoskeleton
Tuesday, 20Jun2017 Filed in: The Science & headlines
“Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed People To Control An Exoskeleton With Their Mind”
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Monday, 19Jun2017 Filed in: The Science & headlines
Slowly
❝David Kronstein fell in love with the capture of high-speed video while a teenager watching Mythbusters. He wanted one of those expensive cameras so bad and thought he had a shot at one in 2006 when an Olympus i-Speed 2 started at a bid of $150 on eBay.
When the bidding surpassed his college budget, Kronstein said, “Screw it, I’ll build one.”
Ten years later, he not only built the camera, he is making it available to average consumers at a tenth of the usual price. (High-speed cameras used in laboratories and TV production studios average around $25,000.)❞
— David Pieirni, Affordable slow-mo camera lets you stop a speeding bullet
Another reason to be careful of the Internet of Things
❝The best defense would be for everything online to run only secure software, so botnets couldn’t be created in the first place. This isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Internet of things devices are not designed with security in mind and often have no way of being patched. The things that have become part of Mirai botnets, for example, will be vulnerable until their owners throw them away. Botnets will get larger and more powerful simply because the number of vulnerable devices will go up by orders of magnitude over the next few years.❞
— Bruce Schneier, Botnets of Things
The grin says it all
Friday, 13Mar2015 Filed in: Design & Life Hacks