For whatever reason, the Pop!Tech crowd appears less terrified of Theo Jansen’s artificial life than of Norman Packard’s. Jansen builds enormous, elegant, incredibly beautiful “animals”… Read More »Our Windpowered Robot Overlords
Dr. Norman Packard is trying to create life in his lab. This doesn’t involve corpses and bolts of lightning… or at least, not yet. It… Read More »Norman Packard’s handmade cells
Bob Hanner works in the world’s oldest profession, he tells us. He’s a taxonomist. (He quotes Genesis 2:19 to make his point, where Adam names… Read More »Bob Hanner on DNA Barcodes
Graham Flint takes really big pictures. Really, really big pictures. My digital camera captures 4 megapixels – Graham produces digital images that are 1000 times… Read More »Really big photos at Pop!Tech
I’m off to Pop!Tech tonight, one of the best general interest/new ideas/big thoughts conferences I’ve ever been lucky enough to speak at. I’m not speaking… Read More »Preparing for Pop!Tech
I blogged a few months back about TOR – The Onion Router – an anonymizing technology that encrypts and reroutes packets between several computers to… Read More »TorPark. Pretty Darned Cool.