SONG: Electronics Follow
SONG: “Electronics Follow”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’,” The New York Times, 13 Nov 2017, as used in […]
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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.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Big improvement to brain-computer interface,” Science Daily, 17 Feb 2017, as used in the post “Brain-electronics just got better.” […]
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) […]
We can build a quantum computer today. But it’ll be as big as a stadium.
Nature pores over the blueprints drawn up using today’s technology… and a $126 million budget… for the next big step in computing power: “Yes it […]
Discarded computers could bring Israelis and Palestinians together
Nature seems awfully optimistic about a program for recycling and processing “e-waste” in the Holy Land: Electronics are dismantled in nearby villages as part of […]
Science Art: Forecasts for 1907, Punch Magazine, 1906.
Click to embiggen This is a cartoon – a *funny* cartoon from about a hundred years before smartphones became a thing. We knew what they […]
These gloves translate sign language.
University of Washington undergrads have won $10,000 for designing gloves that translate sign language into text or speech: The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a nationwide […]
Science Art: HAPN-T 4800 Baud Modem, 1991.
Readers of a certain age will remember these waveforms – not by looking at them, but by sound. This is what data looked like as […]
Like Google Glass, but invisible.
Wired reveals a pair of smart glasses that don’t look any different than any other pair of prescription frames – wearable computers just the way […]
A bionic rose, for electronic lovers – growing circuitry inside.
Nature reports on the creation of a rose implanted with electronic circuits: Researchers at Linköping University have created bionic roses by incorporating plant-compatible electronic materials […]
They’ve got a camera that’s powered *by ambient wi-fi*.
BBC News has some details on a wireless device that gets charged wirelessly, too: The battery-free camera was modified so it could scavenge power from […]