Here’s the key component of a crystal oscillator – which is to say, the slightly fancier version of a pendulum that keeps time inside an electronic timepiece.… Read the rest “Science Art: Quarzkristall, by Jens Both Elcap”
Extreme Tech gets right to the point of a new technology – a mechanical pencil that can draw functional electronic circuits:
… Read the rest “Draw your own circuits with nanotube pencils.”With MIT’s carbon nanotube pencil, the lead is formed
TechCrunch is captivated by one of the six finalists at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Sydney – a Ukranian team of student whizzes who have invented a pair of sign-language gloves… Read the rest “Talking gloves translate sign language to speech.”
Graphene, as we all now know, is the latest strange form of carbon to wow material scientists with its unusual properties. Well, New Scientist shows that graphene is even stranger than we… Read the rest “Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.”
Wired takes a leap into the cephashionable world of cephalopod textiles to give a sneak peak at next season’s color-changing squid-muscle shirts:
… Read the rest “Squid muscle is the new black (and red and green and blue….)”“We have taken inspiration
SONG: “Back into flow.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What it’s like to wear a brain-stimulating… Read the rest “SONG: “Back into flow””
Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow waxes enthusiastic about the process of zapping your brain into a creative “flow” state:
… Read the rest “Slipping on the thinking cap.”The “thinking cap” is something
The brain-zapping process broken down, in an Informed Consent video:
And you can always try making your own device….
New Scientist reawakens that old dream of turning on the creative juices as if you were turning on a tap… or flipping a switch:
… Read the rest “Zapping into flow.”I am in a lab in Carlsbad, California, in pursuit of an elusive
Wired is all aglow over a new wireless transmission system that uses light instead of radio waves:
… Read the rest “Tune into the li-fi.”Using off-the-shelf electronics, he can stream videos using an ordinary light bulb fitted
They’re temporary, sure, but these tattoos in Ars Technica are still powerful. Literally. They’re monitors made from tattooed circuits on your skin:
… Read the rest “Tattoo circuits”All of the necessary
SONG: “Evert 1 Pipkin”.
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Man or Astro-Man?
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. It’s not from any specific scientific study… although… Read the rest “SONG: Evert 1 Pipkin (penitential Man or Astro-Man? cover)”
Why use your hands to manipulate the electronics, asks Georgia Tech digital artist Hye Yeon Nam, when you could use a little affection instead?:
… Read the rest “Kiss controller”Project Description
The Kiss Controller
As if American football players don’t get enough flack from rugby-playing nations, Wired is reporting that their helmets are going electronic:
… Read the rest “Smart Helmets”Now, according to The Washington
Discover has an interesting bit of unexpected biomimicry. The mantis shrimp (probably the scariest marine predator less than 3 feet long) has an unusual way of looking at the world…… Read the rest “DMSD stands for “Digital Mantis Shrimp Discs””
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