Thursday, April 1st, 2010
40 Gbps. Optical. Built on today’s computer chip technology. Low power. Pure awesome. We push ever forward towards exascale computing technologies.
via NextBigFuture
and if that ain’t enough technofetish for ya (can’t really show a chip working because there’s nothing to see so you have to have cheezy visuals) how about a robot folding towels. An Open Source robot.
If that wasn’t cool enough, check out this cool arm-around-arm move she does on a ‘challenge’ towel.
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
No shit. Check out this robot, singing, found by the enviable Pink Tentacle.
It’s not perfect by any means but we’re already on our way down that slope. I gotta get myself ahold of this Vocaloid software so I can make music with computers singing love songs to one another.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
RSS readers may need to click through to the full article to view the film.
My grandfather had to go through a gnarly kidney removal surgery about 8 years ago – if the cancer had waited just a little bit longer – things like this would be available to make that surgery much less detrimental to his health. He made it two years past the surgery. The cancer spread to his liver and stomach… but if this technology had been available, perhaps they could have traced it, found it, removed it.
But we spend three quarters of a trillion dollars a year on killing-people technology.
Monday, July 27th, 2009
Animated sequel to War of the Worlds done by the Heavy Metal crew.
It’s set after the invasion, with man adapting the martian technology, combining it with steam power, developing airships etc. Looks to be pretty lavish, and as a fan of Heavy Metal I look forward to checkin out what they can do with a decent budget. Lets hope it has some good tunes and not the trash movies like Transformers get stuck with.
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
