Category Archives: science

Tactile Computing

Every now and then someone at TED presents a tech­no­logy or an idea that’s so utterly amaz­ing, or ridicu­lously simple that it can’t help but change the world. David Merrill shows off an MIT pro­ject called Siftables in this talk, and even though I’ve been mess­ing around with com­put­ing for 25 years my jaw is …

Fri February 13, 2009 – 23:07 | By seb | Posted in ideas, programming, science, tubed | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Calling all Ne’er-Do-Wells

The Evil League of Evil is recruit­ing!
The rum­blings you’ve been hear­ing in the crim­inal under­ground since July indeed are true: At long last, we are seek­ing new applic­ants to the League.
For what pur­pose, I hear you cry?
The best applic­ants, as determ­ined by the League or its des­ig­nated agents, will be included on a spe­cial DVD com­mem­or­at­ing …

Tue September 30, 2008 – 11:25 | By seb | Posted in science | Tagged , , | Comments Off

What’s the Weather Like on Mars?

 
According to NASA, the Phoenix Lander has detec­ted snow fall­ing from clouds 4km above its land­ing site. Whilst the snow is vapour­ising before it hits the ground, this is a remark­able obser­va­tion of Mars’ ves­ti­gial atmo­spheric pro­cesses in motion.

Mon September 29, 2008 – 22:06 | By seb | Posted in science | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off