Technology

The video says it all. Creepy, morphing skin blob created by iRobot uses Jamming Skin Enabled Locomotion to take it's first steps. In a few years, we'll have small morphing robots that can propel themselves just by moving their flesh around...

This was passed along to me via e-mail on one of the many Ham Radio lists I subscribe to.

You've probably already heard of the idea of harvesting electricity
from body heat to power small devices, such as those in the far-flung
idea of a body area network. Now, a similar idea has been applied to
trees. There's enough power in trees for University of Washington
researchers to run an electronic circuit, according to results to be
published in an upcoming issue of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers' Transactions on Nanotechnology. They found that
the power is minuscule, but measurable, and enough to power circuits.  read more »

There's always been a lot of debate about why Linux is not popular on the desktop, outside the realm of geeks and computer nerds, and I count myself among their number. I've been a Linux geek for years, have worked at Linux Geek Shangri-La (Red Hat) and even get paid to beta test Linux OSes for a living. But I'm not John and Mary Public. I'm not the type who things AOL = Internet and the only way to do something is via Microsoft software.  read more »

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. This is something that some guys and work and I discussed a while back... someone has done it, and the results are fabulous!