Archive for the ‘Cool Technology’ Category
Never has YouTube been used by business to create something this awesome. It takes Subservient Chicken to the next level. Enjoy! Click on the pic below to see it @ YouTube: Or, if you can, just watch it below:
The New York Times has an article today on innovative instruments, or the dearth thereof, in classical music. The gist is something like this: because classical music takes so many people and so much money, innovation is risky. There has to be a quorum of desirable music that takes advantage of new instruments, and, perhaps [...]
The stuff that dreams are made of: Wired has a profile of various countries’ bases in Antarctica that, once again, make me wonder if I should have taken a degree in the sciences. If we ever live on the Moon or Mars, it will be, partially, because we had bases on Antarctica — learning to [...]
I have trouble believing that there wasn’t some movie magic and/or behind-the-scenes chicanery to make this video work, but, on appearance alone, it’s bar none the best thing to happen to Rube Goldberg since the invention of the marble.
“Games take us immediately out of a state of paralysis or alienation or depression and they switch on the positive ways of thinking. They trigger the brain to a state in which it’s possible to do good work. It’s possible to aspire to tough goals.” –Jane McGonigal, Director of Games Research at the Institute for [...]
And lo, Carlos’s visage appeared upon the pancake, and there was peace throughout the world. (Wanna make your own miracle pancake? Head here. Also, many other fun and easy web-based pic-manipulation apps to try out. A personal favorite is the ASCII art generator.)
I think Google’s 20% time program is one of the most genius innovations in the history of business. Look, if we’re going to live in an evil imperialist late-capitalist society, at least there’s Google giving people some time to think creatively while on the job. Here’s one result of that 20% time: Liquid Galaxy. Basically, [...]
Adrian Owen and Steven Laureys, neurologists respectively from Cambridge and the University of Liège (Belgium), have proven that some people in persistent vegetative states are close to, and perhaps fully, aware and awake. Recently, they were able to verbally communicate with a male patient in a manner that, if it can be replicated, proves to my satisfaction [...]
Journalist Lisa Katayama recently had her brain scanned and wrote an article for Popular Science describing the experience. Basically, scientist can stick you in an fMRI, present you with a simple black-and-white shape, and then, “reading” your visual cortex, recreate a shaky, pixelated version of that image. Depending on your outlook, your reaction may be [...]
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