Tag: technology

Do you hate shaving?

Then you’ll love the “razor light” patented by Phillips. It’s “a device that uses light to send hair follicles to sleep, making skin smooth for weeks at a time, without shaving or waxing.” No shaving=longer sleeping. Sounds good to me!

If Astana, Kazakhstan, can do it…

…why can’t Regina, Saskatchewan? Heck, if you squint, the two names are practically identical. “It,” in this case, is cover 100,000 square metres of downtown space with a giant, semi-transparent, climate-controlled tent. (Shades of the domed cities so beloved of old-time science fiction writers.) To whit: The Khan Shatyry entertainment centre in Astana will become …

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Yeah, but cleaning the print heads is murder

What exotic device do you need to cause a single population of adult stem cells to form a variety of types of tissues? What else? An ink-jet printer.

Building a better Christmas with technology

The march of science and technology can be breathtaking, can’t it? Just consider these recent developments in the all-important field of Christmas-related…um, stuff. First, there’s the Lightset Repair Gun. If you have a string of mini-lights that isn’t working, it’s probably because of faulty shunts. Designed to prevent a whole string of lights wired in …

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I still have a soft spot in my heart for Commodore 64s…

…so I enjoyed this article from the Globe and Mail. I hadn’t heard the acronym TPUG in years. It brought back a lot of memories. Through the 1980s I had two C64s, then a C128 (which lasted me until I bought my first PC in 1993), and the only formal computer course I ever took …

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Xerox re-invents paper

They’ve made it self-erasable (it fades in about a day) and re-usable.

So you won’t try an e-book reader…

…because you like to turn pages. Will this change your mind?

Heck, I do this all the time:

Not the getting-lost-in-the-woods-while-picking-mushrooms part, but the using-an-electronic-device’s-glowing-screen-as-a-flashlight part.

Photo of the Day: The ’20s Flapper

It’s a toaster. Specifically, a Hotpoint. What were you expecting? From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series. More photos here.

An electronic music stand

How long before something like this becomes de rigeur for symphony orchestras? Wish we’d had it back when I was a French horn player in concert band.

Photo of the Day: The Light Fantastic

More photos here. P.S. An interesting optical illusion I just discovered. If you stare at this picture, the colored ball will appear to move around slightly against the black background. (Or maybe that’s just me…)

This sounds very promising:

From Scientific American: Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new, carbon-neutral way to convert vegetable-based fuels to syngas, a breakthrough that could allow producers to power hydrogen fuel cells or create a replacement for America’s dwindling supplies of natural gas, all without relying on fossil fuels. Read the rest. (Via Transterrestrial Musings.)

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