Cory Doctorow on the War on General Computing
Interesting interview with Cory Doctorow on Spark in light of SOPA and recent developments.
WANT: arm phone.
Electronic tattoo display runs on blood
Jim Mielke’s wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen.
Bioencryption?
The University of Hong Kong has apparently found a way to encrypt gigabytes of data in a tiny amount of bacteria. I am skeptical of how actually usable this technology actually is just yet but it’s a cool concept.
What’s Your iPhone’s Name?
Roast Beef.
Mine’s “The Sundance Kid.” What’s your’s?
Love you robots. But you also scare me/are creepy.
“…the Geminoid is mostly creepy because it’s not quite an exact replica of Ishiguro. It’s more like Ishiguro built a slightly retarded younger brother for himself, giving it a permanent expression of intense confusion and frustration.”
