MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte’s article Creating a Culture of Ideas may be one of the most fanciful things ever written on the subject of invention. It’s a paean to diversity: One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or [...]
Intel made a presentation of reconfigurable radio architecture to a forum in the Valley: The processors are not bused, but rather are connected through a mesh that emphasizes nearest-neighbor relationships. This both offers a natural implementation for data flow organizations and reduces the power and signal integrity issues that come with long interconnect lines. The [...]
Michele, editor of a small victory, has withdrawn from the rigged and tainted Bloggie Awards: There’s significant evidence that the voting is rigged. Judges themselves have stepped forward to say they got together with other judges to decide on who in their circle should win. One judge said that she didn’t bother to read the [...]
This is interesting: Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka Felsenstein got to work. He’s built the solution. It’s a bicycle-powered, ruggedised luggable, with a localised version of Linux and constructed from cheapo commodity parts. It’s got an aerial, too: it uses WiFi to connect to a central Internet hub in the market town. Using it, villages that currently [...]
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