Science Art: Amplifying Receiver, Sketch 1, April 1916
Click to embiggen slightly Electronics in 1916, from an article on making headphones for receiving radio transmissions in QST, the amateur wireless magazine of the […]
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Silently hacking Alexa with a laser. (And Siri and Google Home too.)
Ars Technica is (or rather, researchers they’re reporting on are) quietly taking over Alexa and other smart-home devices with inaudible – and sometimes invisible – […]
A smartphone-controlled brain implant.
Science Daily brings news (from Nature Biomedical Engineering) of a new, well, not “killer,” but “really pretty useful” app for people suffering a wide range […]
Brain implant decodes the words your ears are hearing – or that you want to say.
New Scientist reveals an experimental system that uses brain electrodes to translate thoughts of speech into words spoken by an electronic voice: The technique used […]
Chickens with Fitbits. Future of farming.
Digital Trends looks at how wearable devices could revolutionize farming and keep chickens healthier: Sitting neatly between these two size extremes is a new project […]
SONG: Circuits in the Sand (penitential cover)
SONG: “Circuits in the Sand” [Download] (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for last […]
Science Art: Selector Used for Timing Supervisory Signals, from The Bell System Technical Journal
Click to embiggen Mmm. Switches. Communication.
Science Art: With this electrolytic cell as little as a milligram of various heavy metals may be precisely determined, 1922
Click to embiggen Early electronics: a cell for isolating minute quantities of heavy metals, apparently by zapping a drop of a solution under a powerful […]
SONG: Electronics Follow
SONG: “Electronics Follow” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’,” The New York Times, 13 Nov 2017, as […]
Electric-eel power plants could fuel artificial organs
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A living tattoo that’s also a computer.
Science Daily reveals how MIT researchers used 3D printing to create the world’s first temporary tattoo made from living cells that act as sensors or […]
FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)
New York Times has the latest high-water mark in our society’s ever-rising tide of irony – an antipsychotic medication that, as paranoid as this sounds, […]
Tiny antennas make brain implants a little more possible.
Nature explores the possibilities of, in not so many words, putting electronic receivers in our brains: Metal antennas that send and receive TV signals and […]
SONG: Glassy Carbon Rods
SONG: “Glassy Carbon Rods [Download] .” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Big improvement to brain-computer interface,” Science Daily, 17 Feb 2017, as used in the post “Brain-electronics just […]
Brain-electronics just got better
Science Daily reports on “glassy carbon electrodes,” a breakthrough in the interfaces that connect computers to our brains: The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) […]