This is cool. Making progress. Maybe by the time I’m old enough that I might need something replaced they’ll be able to grow my own.
Posted by MikeS, filed under internetisawesome, science, technology. Date: April 18, 2013, 7:00 pm |Comments Off on BBC News – Scientists make laboratory-grown kidney
Posted by MikeS, filed under history, science, technology. Date: April 5, 2013, 1:46 pm |Comments Off on How a differential gear works — a-ha generating video – Boing Boing
I like this idea. It’ll never happen in reality but I wonder if a website could be setup where models in blank coveralls have their heads replaced with Congressional heads and then the logos photoshopped in. Combine this with info from the sunlight foundation and I think we’d have a great start on straightening out congress.
Posted by MikeS, filed under Uncategorized. Date: March 26, 2013, 11:31 am |Comments Off on Petition: force Congress to display logos of their corporate backers on their clothes – Boing Boing
Posted by MikeS, filed under astronomy, history, technology. Date: March 22, 2013, 6:44 pm |Comments Off on Neil deGrasse Tyson – We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1) – YouTube
Posted by MikeS, filed under internetisawesome. Date: March 22, 2013, 4:39 pm |Comments Off on Magic meerkat moments – Planet Earth Live – BBC One – YouTube
Posted by MikeS, filed under electronics, fun, projects, technology. Date: March 20, 2013, 3:37 pm |Comments Off on Raspberry Pi Dynamic Bike Headlight Prototype and Test – YouTube
This is great! Semis get 5-6 mpg loaded, this one gets about 10mpg. If my 30mpg Acura was updated to get 40mpg I’d be thrilled, or if the Prius’s 50 mpg changed to 100mpg, that’d be great! A sidenote, Hummer H2’s are horrible and thus discontinued. They got 10 mpg and carried 4 people.
Posted by MikeS, filed under cars, technology. Date: March 20, 2013, 3:29 pm |Comments Off on SuperTruck semi achieves 54-percent increase in fuel economy
Posted by MikeS, filed under astronomy, internetisawesome, pictures, technology. Date: March 20, 2013, 2:10 pm |Comments Off on Earth from Space on the Spring Equinox | Satellite Images | LiveScience
Ok now this is the sort of technology that I like to hear about. An under skin sensor that can detect blood sugar level changes (diabetes), cholesterol levels, chemo therapy effectiveness and potentially warn of heart attacks BEFORE they happen by several hours.
Posted by MikeS, filed under electronics, internetisawesome, technology. Date: March 20, 2013, 1:01 pm |Comments Off on Wireless ‘under the skin’ prototype implant beams instant blood test read-outs to your smartphone
So this is a ram chip stacked on top of a processor. This means that instead of the processor being in one spot on the board and the ram being several inches away, they are effectively one chip. The article mentions that the data of a full bluray disc could be moved from the ram through the chip in 1/50th of a second. THAT is Fast! This is the future in general of chips, stacking and mixing layers of logic and memory. This means very good things for customers.
Posted by MikeS, filed under internetisawesome, pictures, science. Date: March 19, 2013, 10:13 pm |Comments Off on KQEDScience • Science on the SPOT: The Glowing Millipedes of…
Posted by MikeS, filed under history, pictures, science. Date: March 19, 2013, 10:07 pm |Comments Off on KQEDScience • New Lizard Species Look Like Evil Dinosaur…
So this is awesome! 50,000 years ago there was a massive forest off the coast of Alabama, meaning the coast wasn’t in the same place it is now.
Posted by MikeS, filed under history, science. Date: March 19, 2013, 10:04 pm |Comments Off on Ancient underwater forest off Alabama is much older than scientists thought | al.com
Posted by MikeS, filed under home, internetisawesome, travel. Date: March 19, 2013, 9:59 pm |Comments Off on California for Beginners | Burrito Justice
Haven’t tried this yet but it looks like a good weekend project. I wonder if I can convince the old Tivo I have that I get both cable and antenna channels at the same time.
Posted by MikeS, filed under home, projects, technology. Date: March 19, 2013, 8:06 pm |Comments Off on The Pietenna HD Antenna Looks Terrible but Gets Great Signal
Posted by MikeS, filed under astronomy. Date: February 26, 2013, 9:09 pm |Comments Off on Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson – YouTube
Posted by MikeS, filed under bored, fun, internetisawesome, weather. Date: February 25, 2013, 9:31 pm |Comments Off on Karst Country – infra-red timelapse on Vimeo
Posted by MikeS, filed under technology. Date: February 14, 2013, 10:45 pm |Comments Off on USC battery wields silicon nanowires to hold triple the energy, charge in 10 minutes
Short video at the link here demoing an new coating that can be put on just about anything. You’ve maybe seen hydrophobic coatings that make water bead up on something and not be absorbed? This does that with water and oil, which are basically the two main solvents that get onto things and make them dirty. I could see this being put just about anywhere. Neat stuff! (More reasons I went into engineering, to be part of stuff like this at some point.)
Posted by MikeS, filed under technology. Date: February 8, 2013, 10:43 pm |Comments Off on Hydrophobic, dirt-shedding spray is indistinguishable from magic – Boing Boing
Reasons why the internet is awesome: I’m sitting in Salt Lake City, watching waves, surfers and whales in Hawaii, listening to KEXP in Washington, chatting with friends and family around the the country.
Posted by MikeS, filed under home, internetisawesome. Date: February 8, 2013, 10:42 pm |Comments Off on The Internet Is Awesome
2:32 of time well spent. A round up of some of the best science on the net. Good for you, good for sharing with someone you know (big or small) that is interested in the world around them.
Posted by MikeS, filed under internetisawesome, technology. Date: February 7, 2013, 10:40 pm |Comments Off on The BEST Science Online (Henry’s List) – YouTube
Posted by MikeS, filed under technology. Date: February 5, 2013, 10:38 pm |Comments Off on Ben Goldacre: What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe – YouTube
I just spent half an hour on Comcast’s, DirecTV’s and Dish’s websites comparing offerings. My conclusion is that they don’t exist to provide a product or quality service. They exist to extract the greatest amount of money from “customers” through lack of competition. I don’t watch a whole lot of TV but I do watch some and for me I don’t see how any of the packages are remotely worth my money.
I’ll be spending the next little bit seeing what’s on TV that is also available on the internet and then how to stream that from my computer to TV, or set up my smart TV to automatically get it. I know The Daily Show and Colbert Report already stream online one day later. Now to find other good content that doesn’t require 2 year agreements or signing up to pay for a whole bunch of channels I won’t watch.
Posted by MikeS, filed under home. Date: February 2, 2013, 10:37 pm |Comments Off on Cable