January 2012
33 posts
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Commercial version of MIT Media Lab CityCar... →
singularitarian:
A full-scale version of the stackable, electric CityCar, created by researchers at the MIT Media Lab and commercialized by a consortium of automotive suppliers in the Basque region of Spain, was unveiled at the European Union Commission headquarters on January 24.
Branded “Hiriko,” the two-passenger EV vehicle incorporates all of the essential concepts of the MIT Media Lab...
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Live on NASA-TV: Progress 46 Launch in ~5 minutes →
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Cyber-transparency Activist Julian Assange... →
“10 million people contacted Congress, Wales said. “That’s not an abuse of power,...”
– Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, responding to MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd’s claim that SOPA blackout was “an abuse of power.” (via wilwheaton)
NYPD 'Looking' At Using Drone Technology For... →
Drumroll, please... Introducing iFixit.org |... →
minimalmac:
We have been traveling to developing countries in Asia and Africa, visiting e-waste scrapyards and small repair shops, meeting “fixers” who breathe new life into gadgets that the western world has tossed away, and photographing the journey. Part travelogue, part investigative reporting, part soapbox, iFixit.org promises only one thing: a clear-eyed, thoughtful look at global repair...
“The future will look very different as we strip the information-carrying...”
– The High Cost of Low Bandwidth by Bill Davidow (via poptech)
“Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
– Cory Doctorow (via ottomat)
The need for a non-monetary currency
I have several tumblr blogs that receive submissions for commercial works. In pondering if I should start charging , I came to my need for a way to pay or get paid, in more than a like or a reblog. Just a tally of points would do, something that could be exchanged for value.
Part of this is indirectly connected to copyright. I don’t feel right about charging when some of my content is IP...
The Precession of the Simulacra →
So there’s the land—this real stuff we walk around on. Then there’s territory— the maps and lines we use to define the land. But then there are wars fought over where those map lines are drawn.
The levels can keep building on one another, bringing people to further abstractions and disconnection from the real world. Land becomes territory; territory then becomes property that is owned....
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Watchthedailywhat:
BAMF of the Day: An LA Country Sheriff’s deputy reportedly attempted to intimidate an army war vet who used his cellphone to record the cop punching a mentally disabled woman on a bus in Bellflower, California.
“I think they would try to cover it up,” said Jermaine Green when asked why he refused to hand over the video to the deputies. “I think a lot of things get covered up and...
Moving Sidewalks Before The Jetsons →
iconolith:
Great images shared in this article.
Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone →
A recent Congressional Research Service report,titled U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems, looks at the more-prominent role being played by drones. In 2005, drones made up just 5 percent of the military’s aircraft. Today one in three American military aircraft is a drone. The upsides of drones being they are cheaper and safer — the military spent 92% of the aircraft procurement money on manned...
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December 2011
22 posts
jonprins:
Tumblr doesn’t have a ful-fledged iPad app? Boo.
Any non-official apps y’all followers can recommend?
I know, right? I figure Karp just wanna see who devs something sick and then buy it all up.
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Whuffie 2012
Another idea I am forming is in order for Whuffie to work, these crowdfunding programs need to evolve to crowdsourcing programs.
In other words, platforms like Kickstarter & Indiegogo need to allow non monetary pledges of resources like materials, facilities, services, and manpower.
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As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter,... →
infoneer-pulse:
Let’s take a trip with the Ghost of Christmas Future. The year is 2016, and George Bailey, a former banker, now a part-time consultant, is looking for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for a co-op in the super-hot neighborhood of Bedford Falls (BeFa). He has never missed a loan payment and has zero credit card debt. He submits his information to the online-only PotterBank.com, but...
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Whuffie in 2012
I saw the merits of social capitol in 2002, and as the social network developed over the last 10 years, i saw that it was not only possible, but likely. This morning reading about a Kickstarter for espresso machines that is 400% over goal in the first 4 days, it occured to me that we now have all of the conditions needed:
• Distributed democracy: Social connectivity that supercedes authoritarian...
“Should virtual income be reported to the real-world taxman? China thinks so, in principle at least: it…” http://t.co/053iNCbt
Misbehaving Machines: The Emulated Brains of... →
singularitarian:
Abstract
Enhancement technologies may someday grant us capacities far beyond what we now consider humanly possible. Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg suggest that we might survive the deaths of our physical bodies by living as computer emulations. In 2008, they issued a report, or “roadmap,” from a conference where experts in all relevant fields collaborated to determine the...
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“Should virtual income be reported to the real-world taxman? China thinks so, in...”
– Paying for pixels | The Economist (via ninakix)
It only takes $6 million to Educate the World →
infoneer-pulse:
$6 million to fund an institution that would be capable to educate an infinite amount of students throughout the world sounds ambitious if not crazy.
Nevertheless Shai Reshef, founder and president of the University of the People says that those $6 million would be sufficient to enable the non-profit to reach sustainability and to fulfill its goal - forever.
In case you...
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The iPad’s other life: medical device... →
Much of the iPad’s use in medical settings so far has been in the form of pilots and trials, but it’s getting ready to take off in a much bigger way. The Veteran’s Administration in the U.S. is looking at rolling out as many as 100,000 tablets across 152 hospitals, says Wired, based on the success of the 1,500 trial iPads it currently has in use. Over 80 percent of U.S. hospitals have similar...
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