Remember how the Segway was going to revolutionize our lives and rock our worlds? I guess the little teeter-scooter has done that, if your life revolves around leisurely touristy tours of certain major city downtown areas. Anyway, we’re now on the brink of yet another life-changing technological breakthrough, the Lytro™ light field camera and while the… Continue reading Light Field Cameras: Another Segway?
Category: Technology
Fact or Fiction? 10,000 year clock being built in West Texas
That would be fact, in fact, and it’s none other than Amazon.com founder and gazillionaire Jeff Bezos who’s backing the project. The clock, as designed, will tick once a year, have a century hand that moves once every 100 years, and a cuckoo that, well, cuckoos once every 1,000 years. And the whole shootin’ match… Continue reading Fact or Fiction? 10,000 year clock being built in West Texas
Flashback to 1973: When we didn’t need Best Buy
There’s no doubt that television technology has made great strides. We’re on the threshold of having an 85″ 33-megapixel TV to hang on our walls (for most of us, it will have to be in the garage, of course), or if that’s too ostentatious, you can put in an order for Samsung’s new 70 incher,… Continue reading Flashback to 1973: When we didn’t need Best Buy
Cinemagraphs: Animated GIFs Live Again!
Before there was Flash, the primary means of displaying movement on a web page was via animated GIFs, low resolution graphics with mostly clumsy transitions. Animated GIFs have mostly been relegated to retro-cult status, with very few serious uses for the format (although done properly, with the right graphics, they provide a quite passable substitute… Continue reading Cinemagraphs: Animated GIFs Live Again!
QR Codes Already Obsolete?
I’ve done a couple of recent posts about QR codes, trumpeting their use as the Next Big Thing in print-to-web interactivity, and what do I now learn? Google is abandoning the technology in favor of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology! So, does this mean the death of the QR technology before it even gets a chance to… Continue reading QR Codes Already Obsolete?
QR Codes in the Wild
Yeah, I confess that I’m sort of a QR code junkie (although I prefer the term “aficionado,” because it’s more fun to say). But after this post, and following a discussion with a client about possible ways they could help achieve his organization’s mission, I have a heightened awareness of how they’re being used in… Continue reading QR Codes in the Wild
Hey, does that thang have a first stage booster rocket?
I don’t know what possessed someone to do an in-depth comparison of the new Ram 3500 Heavy Duty pickup with a Delta IV Heavy rocket…but I like it! The truck actually compares very favorably with the rocket when it comes to payload, defined for the pickup as towing capacity (25,400 pounds) and for the rocket… Continue reading Hey, does that thang have a first stage booster rocket?
The Beatless
I made a couple of jesting comments on Facebook and Twitter about this article describing the first documented case of something called beat deafness, wherein a man named Mathieu “can’t feel music’s beat or move in time with it.” But it’s a bigger problem than those researchers probably realize. I’m sure that complete beat deafness is… Continue reading The Beatless
Crippled Netflix App (Why, o why?)
Netflix is rapidly becoming the Service We Hate But Can’t Live Without. I’ve previously documented my complaint about the woeful lack of streaming movies, compared to the company’s DVD offerings, but grudgingly admit that there are some external causal factors at play. However, the latest incarnation of Netflix’s iOS app was apparently built without regard… Continue reading Crippled Netflix App (Why, o why?)
Seagate Announces 1st 3TB Hard Drive
You don’t really need to be a certified geek to appreciation the implications of a three terabyte hard drive priced under $300. That’s about a 50% increase over the previous maximum capacity, and enough storage to hold over 400,000 songs. Or you could store a hundred Blu-Ray movies (at 30 gigabytes each). Unfortunately, many computers… Continue reading Seagate Announces 1st 3TB Hard Drive