December 2011
13 posts
Watchcuriositycounts:
Robot Wars – fascinating and thought-provoking Al Jazeera Faultlines segment on robot ethics and war (via)
Watch(via George Dyson at the birth of the computer | Video on TED.com)
Chris Anderson: Why the Internet of Things finally... →
smarterplanet:
After a decade of hearing about “the Internet of things”, where everything will have an IP address, I’m starting to finally believe it. What’s changed? The Open Hardware movement, which is doing for connected devices what the Web did for information. The old vision of the Internet of Things came to us from the likes of Cisco and Nokia, which were trying to promote end-to-end...
Bid to program new life forms with 'operating... →
openscience:
“Now imagine trying to design a similar operating system not for a laptop, a PC or even a smartphone, but rather for something much, much tinier — a living biological cell. This is exactly what a group of scientists at the University of Nottingham, in England, will attempt to do as part of a five-year, $1.58 million research project that has been aptly named AudACiOus — which,...
The Tascam iOS microphone is a beast
bitshare:
If you are in the sound recording industry of any magnitude, let me introduce you to this beastly looking thing, which looks like a bazooka hanging off the end of an iPhone.
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