A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that works like an old-fashioned television screen, scanning a ray of electrons… Read the rest “Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966”
Ars Technica reports on a new sort of cathode that’s made of materials that are abundant (therefore cheap), that store electrons and let them move rapidly (so it’s a good conductor),… Read the rest “A self-healing rechargeable battery made of cheap elements.”
This is a poster snapped in my cardiologist’s (actually, electrophysiologist’s) office. These are all machines that are put into your heart to track its beating and alter… Read the rest “Science Art: Cardiac Devices, Medtronic”
AP News reports that a particularly dramatic “invasive exotic” species – Vespa mandarinia, the Asian giant hornet, better known as the “murder hornet”… Read the rest “Farewell, murder hornets. We got you.”
This is a scientist operating scientific equipment, or a model posing as a scientist showing off the capabilities of a shiny new piece of informational display equipment.
The Conversation discusses an engineering problem with electronic brain implants intended to restore vision, like Neuralink’s hyped Blindsight. They can add more pixels to the… Read the rest “Neuralink “sight-restoring” implant has a problem: brains don’t have pixels.”
This had to have been meant slightly tongue-in-cheek at the time… hadn’t it? Bespectacled man, meet Vitruvian lady.
The cartoon couple are from an ad in the October 1964 issue… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.”
Interesting Engineering reports on antisocial behavior on the part of Russia, which seems to be responsible for jamming the GPS systems of 1,600 jet planes that dared fly too close to Poland,… Read the rest “Spoofed GPS signals affect 1,600 jets.”
NBC reports on a digital device that’s just on the tip of your tongue… where it acts like a trackpad on the roof of your mouth:
… Read the rest ““MouthPad” lets you scroll with your tongue.”MouthPad^, a retainer-like trackpad chip that sits
This is an ad from the April 1966 “Tools and Test Measurement Issue” of Popular Electronics, which I found on archive.org. Lovely design on this mic. Rakish angle, sporty blue… Read the rest “Science Art: Turner +2: The Best CB Microphone in the World, 1966.”
SONG: “Communications” (a penitential Slim Gaillard cover). (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on any research. It’s a cover… Read the rest “SONG: “Communications” (a penitential Slim Gaillard cover)”
This is a tiny component in an amplifier, seen way up close.
If you want the specifics, from the Wikimedia Commons page where I found it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf”45V, 0.03A 300mW 3-Pin TO-18
The 2N930 is designed for
This image, by Wikimedia Commons user Seslami~commonswiki, shows an implantable electronic device that allows some people to hear, or to hear better.
What we’re seeing here, according… Read the rest “Science Art: Implantatet placeras under huden bakom örat…, 2008.”
Ars Technica reports on an underwater electronic neurological breakthrough. A group of researchers from Naples, Okinawa, and further afield who have used implanted recording electrodes… Read the rest “Brain-reading electrodes in a free-ranging octopus.”
Nature asks a question that doesn’t have an easy answer. Medical implants – especially newer ones that interface directly with your brain – are designed for the long… Read the rest “What do you do when your neurological-implant company goes under?”
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