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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Making Smarter Smart Homes
Via Science 2.0: CNN estimates that smart homes will grow from a $10 billion business this year to a $44 billion industry by 2017. It will happen because there will be no more thinking about Bluetooth or Wi-Fi or broadband, the smart home hub will eliminate the chaos....
IBM develops computer chip with a million ‘neurons’ that ‘functions like human brain’
Via Drudge and Mail Online: TrueNorth is the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own. It has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp. ...
How to be the Avengers all rolled into one with some Harry Potter thrown in
Here’s a small roundup of articles about various robotic/prosthetic body parts and functions that interface with people’s brains (sometimes called thought or mind control of the parts). Put them together, and we’ll soon have a fully functioning body that can reach...
How to be the Avengers all rolled into one with some Harry Potter thrown in
Here’s a small roundup of articles about various robotic/prosthetic body parts and functions that interface with people’s brains (sometimes called thought or mind control of the parts). Put them together, and we’ll soon have a fully functioning body that can reach...
How would you depict one-point perspective in your writing?
Writers will sometimes hear they should describe scenes in a way that shows but doesn't tell. To do that, they hear, imagine the scene as a movie and try to convey that imagery in words. In that spirit here's an exercise to try. Check out Stanley Kubrick's use of...
How would you depict one-point perspective in your writing?
Writers will sometimes hear they should describe scenes in a way that shows but doesn't tell. To do that, they hear, imagine the scene as a movie and try to convey that imagery in words. In that spirit here's an exercise to try. Check out Stanley Kubrick's use of...
This will blow the doors off book publishing
Not just textbooks, which it targets, but also non-fiction (assuming the Boundless plan for monetizing the site works): What Boundless does is to map open source content to chapters and sections of dominant textbooks. Students can enter the name of the assigned...
This will blow the doors off book publishing
Not just textbooks, which it targets, but also non-fiction (assuming the Boundless plan for monetizing the site works): What Boundless does is to map open source content to chapters and sections of dominant textbooks. Students can enter the name of the assigned...