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The Neat and public services
March 30, 2005 – 12:38 pm
Working for a public school district, I found this article from the BBC interesting. I think they are right – in the end it’s the quality of service, not the method of delivery that is the most important. Tweet
High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
March 30, 2005 – 12:09 pm
Wired has a great story about how four high school students built an underwater robot for $800 and beat the pants off of engineering students from the likes of MIT and their $11,000 robot. A great read – definitely worth reading through until the end! Tweet
High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
March 30, 2005 – 12:09 pm
Wired has a great story about how four high school students built an underwater robot for $800 and beat the pants off of engineering students from the likes of MIT and their $11,000 robot. A great read – definitely worth reading through until the end! Tweet
Power-hungry PCs cost users
March 30, 2005 – 6:56 am
The BBC reports on the cost of not shutting computers off when not in use – “”Most people could easily save £100 a year and a small-to-medium sized company should easily cut £5,000 off its bills just by following our advice,” said Mr Ross.” For those of us in the US, that’s $9170. Our Middle [...]
HP sues ink refillers
March 29, 2005 – 6:30 am
News.com reports on the HP lawsuits against Rhinotek and InkCycle. Looks like now HP is just using it’s patent arsenal to force refillers to list their cartridges as “used” and “refilled” – which only seems fair, as it allows consumers to make an educated comparison. I just hope it’s not foreshadowing of bigger and more [...]
self-replicating rapid prototyper with a twist
March 21, 2005 – 4:55 pm
Interesting story about a refrigerator-sized machine that would make “household items and gadgets, including kitchenware, cameras and even small musical instruments” out of metal or plastic. The cool thing, is that it would be able to make copies of itself – making it self replicating, and enable to original purchasers to defray the cost of [...]
Software Streaming
March 9, 2005 – 3:26 pm
Network World has an interesting article on Software Streaming that caught my interest. It sounds like they are describing a product similar to Apple’s NetBoot, which I’ve Seen in action at CCC. The article however is very sparse on details – a lot of theory, but no actual how-to’s or off the shelf software to [...]
Invisibility?
March 3, 2005 – 8:47 pm
Scientists have discovered that Plasmons can be used to make very small items invisible. From the article: The proposal involves using plasmons — tiny electronic excitations on the surfaces of some metals — to cancel out the visible light or other radiation coming from an object. “A proper design … may induce a dramatic drop [...]
Sony DVD Direct burns DVDs without a computer
March 2, 2005 – 11:15 am
I found this device interesting, as I just bought an external dual-layer DVD burner for about $100 less than this and a standalone DVD recorder for about $300… so if I had picked this up instead, I would have saved $200….. and gotten the same functionality. Tweet