Spectrum-starved US prepares to feast
Story on newly and soon to be available spectrum in the US
interesting
The Neat and public services
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.
High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
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… Read More »High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
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… Read More »High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
Power-hungry PCs cost users
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… Read More »Power-hungry PCs cost users
HP sues ink refillers
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… Read More »HP sues ink refillers
self-replicating rapid prototyper with a twist
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… Read More »self-replicating rapid prototyper with a twist
Software Streaming
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… Read More »Software Streaming
Invisibility?
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… Read More »Invisibility?
Sony DVD Direct burns DVDs without a computer
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… Read More »Sony DVD Direct burns DVDs without a computer