Mind Camp this year is being held at Synapse in downtown Seattle. The men’s bathroom has one of the best switch covers for the fan I’ve ever seen.
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Mind Camp this year is being held at Synapse in downtown Seattle. The men’s bathroom has one of the best switch covers for the fan I’ve ever seen.
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A few years ago I attended the second ever Seattle Mind Camp v2.0, and I have to say I was pretty happy to be in the presence of a lot of interesting, intelligent, local people. There was a lot going on; I gave an impromptu talk on RFID implants, attended several unconference meetings, and even […]
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Researchers at Intel are confident we will be using brain implants to surf the web using only our thoughts. The first goal is to decode common human brain signals. Back in the 50s and 60s, both the US and the Russians were doing some pretty bizarre brain experiments… some of which were of the “open […]
Tags: hack, health, implant, privacy, psychology, software
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Wired had an excellent article on deCODE Genetics, which has filed for bankruptcy and will likely be bought up by another company. The concern is that the purchasing company, driven not by passion for the industry but by profits alone, will opt to sell customer data. It reminded me of the old biometric iris scanner […]
Tags: biometrics, health, law, privacy, security
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I don’t really watch Mad Men, but I do tend to passively absorb the show when Jenny has it on and I’m in the room checking email on my laptop. I had not idea that through those very few obtuse viewing sessions, the culture of the show has rubbed off on me a bit. When […]
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I spent this last weekend on top of a 30′ high building in the wind and rain aligning radio dishes. It’s not that fun, but the radios are pretty sweet. They are 60GHz P2P links that can push a full gigabit (1000Mb) across the link. I have yet to find another solution that can sustain […]
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NASA confirmed today that the LCROSS mission was able to confirm the existence of water on the moon. “We are ecstatic,” said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. “Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor plume and […]
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The guys over at BoingBoing are pointing out Mark Dery’s article on H+ magazine which talks about how full of bunk all the 2012 doomsday people are. I used to get riled up about this kind of thing too, about how stupid people are and how easy it is to get crazed, unthinking followers to […]
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Farhad over at slate is doing a two-part piece on Y2K – ten years later, and I can’t help but comment. On January 2nd, 2000, while everyone was coming out of their bomb shelters giving a collective “Pffft”, I always thought the fact that nothing happened was a grand testament to how well the problem […]
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Over at Gizmodo they are talking about a new concept device that blew my socks off. The idea would be to implant a bluetooth touch-sensitive display into your arm, and power it using the readily available oxygen and glucose supplies whizzing through your bloodstream. Pretty crazy huh?
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