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Category Archives: Technology
From Out of Nowhere
Via Barrons via The Big Picture, interesting trends in the computing space: I find it a little bit funny that the graphic says, “from out of nowhere, smartphones have passed global PC sales.” The slope of both smartphone graphs shifted … Continue reading
Posted in Charts & Data, Current Events, Technology 3 Comments
Cloud Follow-Up
In response to my post yesterday on cloud backup solutions, Colin suggests another interesting solution: Rather than pay $60 a year for cloud backup, I invested in the personal cloud. Connect this to your router and set your Mac or pc to … Continue reading
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The Cloud’s Got My Back
I’ve had a rough couple of weeks with my computer — at times I’ve felt as though I’m back in the 90′s when computers just crashed on a regular predictable basis for all sorts of nonsensical reasons. The focus of … Continue reading
Posted in General, Technology 2 Comments
The Super PAC App!
As I previously mentioned here and here, my good friend Dan Siegel has been hard at work developing the Super PAC App, an iPhone app that helps people who are interested in researching election-related commercials funded by Super PACs identify … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Technology Tagged Ads, Commercials, Election, MIT, Obama, Politics, Romney, Super PAC App, Super Pacs 2 Comments
Who’s Curiosity? Bleep-Bop.
I just discovered that NASA’s curiosity rover, which who landed on Mars last night, has its own Facebook and Twitter pages where it posts updates about its mission in the first person. It seems a bit over the top, but why not? … Continue reading
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Dan Siegel and the Super PAC App
My good friend Dan Siegel is in the process of launching a smartphone app that will help TV watchers who are bombarded with election-related commercials funded by Super PACs identify (1) which organizations are paying for the ad, (2) what other political initiatives they support, … Continue reading
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And We’re Off!
The commercial space race hit a pretty big milestone! Yesterday’s SpaceX launch put the first commercial spacecraft with plans to dock with the space station into orbit: I’m convinced that space travel, like the kind Virgin Galactic is planning, will become “reasonably” … Continue reading
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CineSquid
From my Imaging Ventures course yesterday, former MIT student Justin Jensen developed a suction cup tripod-based camera mount:
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Pune: A (Nearly) Waste-Free City
Note: This blog post was originally published on the MIT Public Service Center website. It’s the tenth post in a blog series sharing findings from a research project I’m working on throughout the month of January. January 26, 2012 Paul Artiuch and … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Technology, Travel Tagged Bio Mass, Food Waste, Gangotree Eco Technologies, India, Pune, Waste 1 Comment
The Japanese Doing Crazy Things With Quantum Levitation
Really crazy: One of the early quantum levitation experiments came out of Israel earlier this year. The video and website are worth checking out as well if you’re into this sort of thing.
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