Technology

The navigation system in my car has an anti-theft feature that’s interesting, in that it relies entirely on a sort of herd immunity. The system is installed in the car’s dashboard, so it’s somewhat involved to pull it out. Easy for a pro, to be sure, but ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Nov 26 2011 - 10:30am

No Haz-Mat Suit? Send In The Insect Cyborgs

Energy harvested from insects may take the utility of miniature cyborgs to the next level. Researchers say they can now harvest the insect's biological energy from either its body heat or movements, and the device converts the kinetic energy from wing ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2011 - 2:00pm

New Robot: Squid Or Starfish?

New robot alert! New robot alert! It's an adorable cross between Gumby and a starfish. Go watch the video right now. Now, none of the authors of the paper are marine biologists, so I can't expect them to know that this description: ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Nov 28 2011 - 9:38pm

Web Page Mistakes And The 'Lazy Thumbnail'

I don’t understand, sometimes, how people put together their web pages. Who really thinks that, say, pink text on a red background looks good? Seventeen different typefaces on one page? A background image that makes people’s eyes cross? ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Dec 3 2011 - 11:07am

Not Lazy Enough Yet? Kinect For Xbox 360 Gives You A Voice Remote

Kinect for Xbox 360 has an update coming today that brings voice control to living room entertainment. They are launching an all-new Xbox 360 experience including the first group of new, custom applications from world leading TV and entertainment conten ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2011 - 4:00pm

Cellebrite Doesn't Like WikiLeaks 'Spy Files' Claims

Cellebrite, a developer and manufacturer of mobile forensic solutions, has rejected claims in the recent WikiLeaks "Spy Files" exposé that it is among companies that develop and supply equipment to governments and dictators "to spy on their ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2011 - 12:53pm

Do You Trust Technology?

An organizer of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/) sent a CFP for a minitrack on Trust in Information Systems: A user’s trust and distrust in information systems [IS] are important components in the interacti ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Feb 27 2013 - 10:18pm

Brainlab AG: World’s First Curve Image Guided Surgery System Now Operating In Germany

This week, university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar in Munich, Germany, is the first hospital in the world to operate with Brainlab's Curve(TM) Image Guided Surgery system. Curve(TM) is Brainlab's latest generation of image-guided surgery sy ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Dec 18 2011 - 2:00am

Highway 61 revisited

As I sit here with a Cesária Évora CD on in the house, I have an update to the car AV system issue, wherein it couldn’t stop playing Bob Dylan. That is, I found out why it’s playing a disproportionate amount of Dylan. ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jan 12 2012 - 2:28pm

A Clue In The Identity Of The ClimateGate Email Hacker?

If someone talks about WikiLeaks and admires transparency and accountability but talks about ClimateGate and talks about how the emails were illegally obtained and stresses the researchers were absolved of science misconduct, you know how they vote. And on ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 4 2012 - 11:14am