At the Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship.
The LAGR robot, a fascinating video
•March 11, 2013 • Leave a CommentA fascinating video of the LAGR robot. More here: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yann/research/lagr/
Petabytes on a budget – Redux (3)
•March 6, 2013 • Leave a CommentNow, I’ve never written about this before, but Backblaze sure has. In an open-source spirit that I admire, they detail what allows them to sell cloud storage at such a low-cost.
Their video gives a quick overview of their latest innovations:
Read their post in entirety:Â Petabytes on a budget – Redux (3)
Quick edit: I nearly forgot to mirror the article! (Mirror)
“The browser of a scientist”
•March 2, 2013 • 3 Comments
It’s funny because it’s true! I’m not even kidding. This is my desktop, earlier tonight:
BREAKING: Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers form alliance to further open science
•February 28, 2013 • Leave a CommentThis made me exclaim “Holy sh*t!!!”, jump out of bed, and run to the computer to post this.
Google Glass?
•February 27, 2013 • Leave a CommentYesterday, I finally finished my post on Planar Systems LookThru LCDs, and gave a tiny glimpse of my vision therewith.
Today, I came across this article (mirror – huuuuuuuge PDF).
Planar Systems, Google: Give me a dev kit that combines Google Glass/LookThru, a quantum of capital, and a bit of time —- I’ll give you the future.
Sidenote: a video embedded in the article reminds me of Pummelvision. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v1uyQZNg2vE]
Planar Systems LookThru LCDs
•February 25, 2013 • 2 CommentsEarlier today, I was trying to solve a problem with projectors that we had in math class – but that’s not what this post is about. Time for google-fu!
(*I google away*)
While researching, I came across this video: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1WGFMAKLT4] Yes, that’s right. It’s a fridge with a full color LCD — with transparency acting like another ‘color’. It even  appears that transparency can even be controlled for wavelength (i.e. block out red). It appears that Planar has already put quite a bit of thought into this — They have a whole series of concept videos:
Alexander Riccio 