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  • 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…

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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.… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, The…

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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… What Obama’s Victory Means for…

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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… Related articles Obama’s Budget Would Cap Romney-Sized…

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  • 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…

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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 … http://flpbd.it/i8Wy9 Related articles Despite “Jedi” flap, Obama still…

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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…

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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…

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  • Arduino: How To Smell Pollutants

    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… http://flpbd.it/EypGF How To Smell Pollutants Related articles Arduino ADK LED Lighting (instructables.com) Shrunk…

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