 | Life Hack |  Blogueros | Personal Development Weblog, lifehack.org Daily digest and pointer on productivity, getting things done and lifehacks |
| Life Hack | Blogueros | Personal Development Weblog, lifehack.org Daily digest and pointer on productivity, getting things done and lifehacks |
| Life Hack | Blogueros | Personal Development Weblog, lifehack.org Daily digest and pointer on productivity, getting things done and lifehacks |
| Life Hack | Blogueros | Personal Development Weblog, lifehack.org Daily digest and pointer on productivity, getting things done and lifehacks |
| Stack of 3D models of history's space rockets | | Space Hacker Ariel Waldman points us to Sascha Pohflepp's The Rocket, "Every freely available 3D-model of space rockets as found on Google 3D Warehouse, chronologically ordered and assembled into one unbroken chain of our attempts to transcend the gravity well." The Rocket...
[..] Leer nota completa |  | Publicado 14-Apr-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Lobster shell golf balls | | I've always thought it nuts that many cruise ships have golf ball driving ranges where you hit into the open seas. Isn't that, um, littering? Seems that University of Maine Researchers agreed, so they've developed a biodegradable golf ball from lobster shells. From UMaine News: Though biodegradable golf balls already exist, this is the first to be made with crushed lobster shells with a biodegrada [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 13-Apr-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Video: Ejection seat test | | No, that's not a real person flying out of this rocket sled flying down the track at 600 mph. It's a mannequin test of a new ejection seat system for the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. From BAE Systems: The system has been tested to its limits, as a full scale front section of the aircraft, complete with ejection seat and mannequin was launched at speeds in excess of 600 mph down a test track. Mo [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 07-Apr-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Bandwidth changes everything for cloud storage | | Amazon's Cloud Player -- an online file storage service -- upsets the music labels because people could use it to share music instead of simply store and listen to it. Nilay Patel writes that earlier legal outcomes might not be a good guide this time around, because a legitimate role for 'digital lockers' is more obvious than in times past. What's new for Amazon? Bandwidth, and tons of it. We've r [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 06-Apr-2011 por Rob Beschizza en technology
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| Prophecies of the Internet, 1971 | | Earlier this week, I posted about the death of Paul Baran, co-inventor of packet switching -- the core technology of the Internet -- and a co-founder of Institute for the Future, the non-profit forecasting thinktank where I'm a research director. Yesterday, as we looked through our library of Baran's brilliant, and still-relevant, research papers, we came across a mind-blowing report from 1971, ti [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 31-Mar-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Divvy: an OCD sufferer's delight | | [Video Link] Divvy doesn't do anything except let you resize OS X and Windows windows by snapping them to widely-spaced gridpoints. I watched the above video, and was interested enough to download the demo (which doesn't expire but has nags about 2 or 3 times a day). I ended up liking it so much I bought it for $14. I use it dozens of times a day. For example, I use it to set up a couple of Finder [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 28-Mar-2011 por Mark Frauenfelder en technology
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| Paul Baran, Internet pioneer and Institute for the Future co-founder, RIP | | Paul Baran, whose co-invention of packet switching lies at the very foundation of the Internet, has died. He was 84. Baran spent the 1960s at RAND's computer science department where he focused on developing a system for "distributed communications," fundamental research that was seminal to the birth of Arpanet which, of course, became the Internet. In 1968, Baran left RAND to co-found the Institu [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 28-Mar-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Clock powered by dead flies | | [video link] This prototype clock, designed by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, is powered by dead flies. A conveyor of fly paper catches the insects and then drops them into a microbial fuel cell where they become feedstock for bacteria to consume. As the bacteria munch on the dead flies (or most any organic matter), the chemical energy is converted to electrical energy. The same technology powers [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 25-Mar-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Method for wiring chips with nerve cells | | Research from the University of Wisconsin?Madison points to progress in creating hybrid computer chips combining silicon and neurons. Biomedical engineers demonstrated a novel technique for weaving the tendrils of mouse nerve cells into a network of semiconductor tubes. Yeah, that's just an illustration above. But eventually, a neural-electronic device such as this could be used to study diseases [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 23-Mar-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| DIY space exploration | | Spacehack is a clearinghouse for space geeks who want to participate in offworld exploration but may not have a science background and probably can't afford a ticket to orbit. Yet. Space.com interviewed Spacehack founder and former NASA employee Ariel Waldman about the project and her not-so-far-out motivations. From Space.com (photo by Matt Nuzzaco): How did you get involved with space hacking, c [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 23-Mar-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Mark interviewed on Evernote podcast | | Andrew Sinkov at Evernote interviewed me about the ways I use their terrific store-and-retrieve-anything-from-anywhere service. In this episode, we talk about the recent updates to iPhone and Android, and our experiments with video Q&As using Vyou.com. Also, we have a very special interview with Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing and Make Magazine. Podcast #26 topics The HUGE Evernote for iPhone rede [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 22-Mar-2011 por Mark Frauenfelder en technology
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| Implantable sensor to detect cancer growth | | This tiny sensor can be injected into the body during a biopsy to keep a constant vigil on tumor growth. Developed at MIT, the device is packed with magnetic nanoparticles and proteins that bind to particular molecules that are associated with certain cancers. The device is "read" via MRI scan but a future sensor may be interrogated with a magnetic wand waved over the body. The system may also hav [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 15-Mar-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Nevada student charged with hacking in to school network, upgrading students' grades for cash | | A 19-year-old University of Nevada student in Nevada has been charged with hacking into his school district's computer system and improving his classmates' grades for a fee. Local police say Tyler Coyner led a group of 13 students (most of whom were minors) who have all been charged with conspiracy, theft and computer intrusion. "Last year, Coyner somehow obtained a password to the Pahrump Valley [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 08-Mar-2011 por Xeni Jardin en technology
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| BBC video on hardware hacking | | Adafruit's Phil Torrone points us toward this excellent BBC short about hardware hackers. When you buy a new piece of technology ? like a phone, or a games console ? you most likely unpack it, plug it in, and use it according to the instructions. But there is a particular type of tech-head who would prefer to take it apart, see how it works, and then make it do something else. Scores of enthusiast [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 01-Mar-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Swimming microbots master U-turns | | Tiny robots swimming through our bodies zapping polyps or delivering drugs has been the stuff of future tech hype for decades. But even as this concept becomes closer to reality (albeit slowly), one of many big questions is: How do you steer the micromachines? North Carolina State University recently demonstrated a technique to make their microbots do U-turns. From New Scientist: The microbot, a m [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 16-Feb-2011 por David Pescovitz en technology
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| Video: Davis 3 Wheeler car (1948) | | "This little chariot can really run you around in circles." I'd certainly like a Davis 3-Wheeler. And a 1950s voice like the narrator too. (Thanks, Jeff Cross!)...
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