Weighty Matter
Posted on July 28, 2007 - Filed Under Taiwan, Tech & Science, Photography, Misc. | Leave a Comment
Went to the 87th floor of Taipei 101, the world’s tallest building, and saw this little item. Would hate to have it land on my toe as it weights 730 tons. This damper weight, designed the keep the 1,667 foot tower from swinging too far in a storm or earthquake, is said to […]
Read More..>>NanoBeat: What Would Kerouac Think?
Posted on June 19, 2007 - Filed Under California, Culture, Tech & Science, Video, Misc. | Leave a Comment
When I was much younger than now, my image of a beatnik was the bongo-playing Maynard G. Krebs, a 1950s TV sitcom character who went apoplectic at the mere utterance of the word “work.” To my parents, beatniks were lazy, laughable bums who didn’t understand that life was all about battling crabgrass […]
Read More..>>Horse Walks into a Bar: My Digital Lifestyle
Posted on January 17, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Tech & Science, Gadgets & Cameras | Leave a Comment
It was one of those bars where the smell of stale smoke and cheap whiskey permeate the air like that of bat turds in a cave, a way-off-the-strip joint in Las Vegas wedged between a wedding chapel and a lawyer whose sign promises to beat your DUI. I had stopped there on my long […]
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MIT Media Lab Demo - AudioPint
Posted on January 17, 2007 - Filed Under Tech & Science, Gadgets & Cameras, Video | Leave a Comment
You can’t really travel with this (it would, among other things, drive your seatmate nuts) but it is pretty neat, especially for those of us who have delusions of talent. Imagine singing every part in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir…or at least singing barbershop with yourself, as David Merrill of MIT’s Media Lab showed me.
Something […]
MIT Media Lab Demo - AudioPint [5:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
MIT Media Lab Demo -AudioPint: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
MIT Media Lab Demo -AudioPint [5:05m]: DownloadGear & Gloating in Las Vegas
Posted on January 17, 2007 - Filed Under Tech & Science, Gadgets & Cameras, Video | Leave a Comment
OK, I just took down the Christmas tree, stashed the snowglobes, set the Roomba to the task of sweeping up the detritus of Christmas last. Been away in Las Vegas for the monster Consumer Electronics Show, where the gloat sweeps across the desert like a storm of flying lizards. I do a little tech TV […]
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