Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used for a high-speed printer/plotter. It’s enlarged […]
electronics
Eye implant reverses blindness
Nature reports on an electronic retinal implant that has successfully allowed people with age-related macular degeneration to see again: The implant, which measures 2 millimetres […]
Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966
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 self-healing rechargeable battery made of cheap elements.
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 […]
Science Art: Cardiac Devices, Medtronic
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 […]
Farewell, murder hornets. We got you.
AP News reports that a particularly dramatic “invasive exotic” species – Vespa mandarinia, the Asian giant hornet, better known as the “murder hornet” – has […]
Science Art: Illustration, New Model 1806 Fiber-Optics Cathode-Ray Tube Visicorder from a Honeywell brochure, c.1973
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 […]
Neuralink “sight-restoring” implant has a problem: brains don’t have pixels.
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 […]
Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.
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 […]
Spoofed GPS signals affect 1,600 jets.
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 […]
“MouthPad” lets you scroll with your tongue.
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 […]
Science Art: Turner +2: The Best CB Microphone in the World, 1966.
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 […]
SONG: “Communications” (a penitential Slim Gaillard cover)
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 of a […]
Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf
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 […]
Science Art: Implantatet placeras under huden bakom örat…, 2008.
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 […]