From EDN(electronic Design News) a fascinating history of a WWII bomber remote control gunsight, and it’s failure, repeatedly, while the bureaucrats insisted on pushing it forward. Great things were done during WWII but not without cost and not without clearly showing the strengths an weaknesses of the bureaucratic ‘blue model’ way of doing complex programs (at the time the only practical method of management.)
Good article on close in work on and using 3D Printing in Macine Design, a favorite of mine since the ’70s (my dad’s read at home magazine.)
Went to the Midwest ReRap Faire in Elkhart today, cool gear, lots of info, lots of enthusiasts.
Some photos:
SAE tech article, interesting, 30 minutes of competitive performance! What’s that doodling back and forth to work?
How to Choose an LED Light Bulb | MIT Technology Review.
Useful article, I’m glad LED’s have caught up so quickly, compact fluorescent seemed like a dumb stopgap before, now it’s like some kind of gov’mnt boondoggle or something.
Will Anyone Create a Killer App for Google Glass? | MIT Technology Review.
Yes! The question is how broad the appeal is. For certain jobs, medical care providers, law enforcement, field journalism, meter readers, etc it seems natural but for more general use? Shopping, running, biking, skiing, … anything where recording and displaying data while being in the world seems natural.
In the long run the tech in glass would appear suited to supplant – or subsume – other interfaces, when the camera can watch your fingers interact with a projected ‘underlay’ and let you type, write, talk-edit, etc while capturing audio,video, local, context. To do this a high speed ultra low power, ultra high bandwidth link to a cellphone / superphone type device and then the web will be needed for a half decade or so.
The combination of wrist, ear, eye and belt/pocket modules of your personal retinue plus remote computing will capture the world around you in a 24/7 data-log.
Article in wired but others as well ultra cool use the knowledge, vision, wisdom of those who come to do.
Wired’s building of the week, have got to say this makes me glad I’m not an office worker.
And a great reason to show a picture of a beautiful woman ( “muse and model” Dita Von Teese),
Photo: Andrew Tingle/Wired
Article in Wired, clothes cusomized to you are coming. The dress was made from several panels of laser sintered nylon giving the dress the ability to conform to the wearers body, cool and slinky sexy, if a bit Metro Goth.
This World and Others 