Memoto records every minute of your day

A Wearable Camera To Record Every Single One Of Life’s Precious Moments
BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com

The Memoto is a “lifelogging camera” designed to capture and then re-stream everything that happens to you. Does this mean the end of memory as we know it?

The cybor­gian future that awaits us is full of enhance­ments to the human form that we…

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Visualize microscopic wonder of plants

The Wondrous Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

U.K. artist Rob Kesseler is working with the Millennium Seed Bank to illustrate the remarkable, nearly invisible world of microscopic botany.

As long as humans have made art, they’ve looked to the flora and fauna around them for inspi­ra­tion.…

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Obama victory and tech industry

What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech
Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com

Barack Obama’s vic­to­ry last night has far-reaching fis­cal, social, and mil­i­tary impli­ca­tions, all of which are famil­iar to any­one who kept at least one eye open dur­ing any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech…

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Obama tech crippled Romney campaign

How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com

Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the…

Harvard bio library stores 70 billion books on DNA

Harvard Stores 70 Billion Books in Record Breaking DNA Bio-Library the Size of a Thumbnail | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
GreatEmerald says:, inhabitat.com

DNA photo from Shut­ter­stock

A team from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty’s Wyss Insti­tute for Bio­log­i­cal­ly Inspired Engi­neer­ing has dis­cov­ered a way to store 70 bil­lion books in a space the size of your thumb­nail! Using…

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Obama wins election of the nerds

Obama wins the nerdiest election ever
By Spencer Ackerman, wired.co.uk

Politics

Con­grat­u­la­tions, Barack Obama: you have pre­vailed in the nerdi­est elec­tion in the his­to­ry of the Amer­i­can Repub­lic.

If 2008 was about hope and change, 2012 was about data and memes. The unem­ploy­ment rate. The effec­tive …

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We can now predict your behavior using online data

The Rising Science Of Social Influence — How Predictable Is Your Online Behaviour?
Ferenc Huszár, techcrunch.com

Techcrunch recent­ly ran a piece by Michael Wu of Lithi­um. The fol­low­ing is a response writ­ten by Fer­enc Huszar, who, prior to join­ing Peer Index PeerIndex as lead data sci­en­tist, was was a PhD stu­dent at the Machine Learn­ing Lab at…

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Microscopic reasons to stop eating fast foods

An Electron Microscope Reveals The Hidden Horrors Of Processed Foods
By Belinda Lanks, fastcodesign.com

Photographer Caren Alpert wants you to take a good, hard look at what you eat.

One of the most pow­er­ful tools in a sci­en­tist’s arse­nal is the scan­ning elec­tron micro­scope (SEM), which uses a beam of elec­trons to mag­ni­fy a spec­i­men u…

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Arduino: How To Smell Pollutants

English: Arduino Serial board
English: Arduino Serial board (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

by liseman, instructables.com

This Instructable explains how to use a gas sen­sor with your Arduino.

This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you pro­gram respons­es to) over­all gas lev­els for a vari­ety of nas­ties, includ­ing ethanol, methane, formalde­hyde, and a bunch o…

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How To Smell Pollutants