Latest Roadkill Report:
- a story from MIT about a
Computerized
Acoustic Guitar, capable of mimicking many instruments
Roadkill Link -
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/chameleon-guitar-0203.html
- a BBC piece on
NanoRobots
made of Chemicals rather than machines
Roadkill Link - 'Chemical robots' swarm together -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8044200.stm
Roadkill Link - Karel Capek -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek
- A new submersible which can fly like
A
Jet Under Water
Roadkill Link - Jet Submarine -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049179.stm
Roadkill Link - The Flying Sub -
http://bcliffe.com/subs/FS1.html
- A story about
Scientists
Making Machines Which Replace Scientists,
and
two new
Apple
Patents for controlling media devices, and ways to
improve
graphic user interfaces.
- A
Virtual
Reality Helmet which will mimic all 5 senses, and a new media
player called the
iToaster
- Two articles about
Music
Playback Technology - The LALA music service, and the XBox physical
interface for PDA music players.
- Guido The Great - Jeffrey Tucker's article on the 10th century
Catholic monk who invented sheet music notation.
- The Hadron Supercollider
- “How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web” - The LHC
Computing
Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle reams of information
- New Eco Technology - two articles about generating electricity
from wave power, and solutions to carbon emmissions
- Two articles by Libertarian Jeffrey Tucker on the subject of
Intellectual
Property
- Has
The
Isle of Man finally found a way to make file sharing legal?
- A retired Texas professor belives he;s discovered the secret of the
Stradivarius
violin, + The world's fastest electric car, the
Aero
EV
-
Don't
meddle with mother nature: Conservation plan to cull cats backfires
as rabbits overwhelm Australian island +
Harry
Potter-style cloak of invisibility created by scientists
- Obama's Black Widow
- Bush's legacy to telecommunications? Big Brother is listening
in,
very closely, and not just at prospective terrorists.
-
Let There Be Light - a look into the possible future of computing,
Photonics
-
Google Search Results - are they really impartial? The
evidence suggests not...
-
The iPhone Story - how the iPhone came to be, and how it changed
the relationship between phones and telecom service providers
- The
Machines
Take Over - AI (Artificial Intelligence) may give humans a run for
their money