August 28, 2010
The Techno-Sponge
August 22, 2010
I Don’t Want Directions
Yes, this is how I feel when they try and give me directions. Seriously. It’s the 21st Century. And I have a GPS.
August 14, 2010
August 3, 2010
Double Exposure
The Ghosts of WWII.
Photographer Sergey Larenkov does some amazingly poignant double exposures of WWII and present day locations.

July 29, 2010
1945-1998
A short film that I couldn’t look away from. It gets going around 1958. Don’t miss the end. (h/t Scott)
Looong exposure
The longest exposure in photography history. How long? You won’t believe it. I’m practicing my teasers.
July 28, 2010
July 21, 2010
July 17, 2010
Well, It’s a Surprise to Me, Too
No idea why the look changed. I certainly didn’t do it. I kinda like it, but obviously I’ll track down what’s going on.
July 15, 2010
Bionics
Robotic bionic exoskeletons for parapalegics. If I didn’t do music, it’s hard to imagine anything more fulfilling than some sort of prosthetic/assistant device work. This tech is way cool.
July 12, 2010
June 25, 2010
A Unique Perspective
Space Shuttle launch, as seen from a skydiver’s perspective.
UPDATE: Josh points out that this is sunSET, and therefore the west coast (good eye, Josh), plus that the Cape would never launch with that low of a cloud deck. It turns out that this isn’t an STS launch, but a rocket launch out of Vandenburg AFB on the west coast. Good eye, Josh! Still, cool picture.
June 22, 2010
Google Voice
Just got hooked up with a Google Voice number (essentially a lifetime permanent phone number). Pretty cool! Today is the first day you can sign up without an invite.
Check it out. It’s free, and all you need is a (free) Gmail account.
June 15, 2010
Why Not This?
Okay, here’s a techie idea I’ve been thinking about.
Now that we’re seeing GPS’s pretty much everywhere, and GPS data is incorporated into everything nowadays (google maps, photos, etc), why not a GPS equipped… cruise control?
One of the little issues with my new Tacoma is that the cruise (any cruise, really) is totally ignorant of road conditions and hill angle. All it sees is that my speed is dropping and so it firewalls the throttle to try and keep it at the speed I set.
If the cruise control was smarter about the upcoming road- how steep the hill is and how far it is until the top- then it could more efficiently goose the throttle to save gas. Sure, I’d lose a couple MPH on the way to the top, but I would be happy to give that up in return for not indiscriminately dumping gas into the engine while the stupid cruise control tries to keep me at 70. So why not provide some sort of look-ahead GPS altitude information to an automotive cruise control so that the cruise knows that you’re about to hit a short hill and can vary its behavior to take that into account?
It seems like this is a good marriage between car tech and computer tech and I’m curious if some enterprising car company will give it a try.
May 30, 2010
Lasersaur
An Open Source laser cutter project. Yes, please. I’d like one to go next to the MakerBot.
May 26, 2010
April 15, 2010
The Coolest Thing You’ll See Today
They’re not called WIN-scapes for nothing.
I totally want this. Can you imagine this with a pair of 60″ screens? It’s a step closer to scifi holographic windows.
This’d be nice for an underground/basement office/lair, especially if you could calibrate the light frequencies to match actual outdoor lighting, and maybe reinforce the illusion by piping in real light with some of these.
April 14, 2010
The Future of Prosthetics
Dean Kamen’s recent TED talk. Absolutely riveting. Don’t miss it.
h/t Sean
April 3, 2010
Apple Just Sold another iPad

iPad MIDI/DAW Control Surface. For $9.99 (well, plus the iPad), you can get functionality that would cost you a whole lot more in a closed ended, non-updatable hardware control surface. Sold.