Technology will save us from bed bugs, right?

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At least that’s what we hope around here.  Well, technology and the free market.  There’s too much potential money to be made to have this problem go unsolved.  Just imagine the chemical company that develops a safe, effective bed bug treatment.  Holy crap they would be rolling.

Although… there’s always the [...]

Microsoft’s Top Secret Courier Tablet

I rarely write about technology because it’s all either derivative or temporal.  Well, I suppose that all technology suffers these burdens, but this new Microsoft tablet computer, if it really works as advertised, looks like a game-changer.

I like technology, but I’m not an early adopter.  I just like the idea of new technology.  [...]

Past Visions of the Future

What did the year 1999 look like to people in the 1960s and earlier?  Check out these revealing videos.  It’s amazing how 1999 looked so much like 1965. 

AT&T’s vision of the future was close, but just a little bit off. People don’t send “faxes” from the beach, but they do send [...]

Carbon Nano-Tubes are the Future

Over the past decade a material has emerged that will change everything in the world.  You think that electronics miniturization like smaller cell phones and iPods is cool?  Well you should check out carbon nano-tubes.  The more I read about them, the more they boggle my mind.  Here are some highlights:

The world’s strongest [...]

Segway Scooter, Is Walking that Difficult?

The Segway scooter initiative is an interesting example of a completely fabricated societal “need”. It will be used in textbooks in the future to explain the principle of Occam’s Razor (also known as the “principle of parsimony”) and its inevitability. In general this principle states that if you have two or more potentially [...]