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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…