I get pumped up when I think about the future of biotech. My hope is that biotech will evolve in the same way that computing did in the 70's. Like computer equipment was in the 70s, biotechnology equipment today is expensive and only available to a small number of people. As the equipment drops in price, and becomes more accessible, it opens the door for home-brew biotech. We can only hope that the biotech equivalent of Hewlett and Packard or Jobs and Wozniack will emerge from their garages with breakthroughs that democratize and popularize biotechnology innovation.
Wired.com is running an interesting set of articles on hacking your brain for maximum effect. One of the topics they cover is a list of potential brain enhancing drugs, some legal, some not. This topic has been getting some attention lately as the tech corollary to doping in sports. Check out an excerpt from the grid below, or the full grid at link # 5 below.
If you negotiate lots of contracts I am sure you are familiar with the guy who thinks it is a great idea to lock the contract down so that it can't be edited. It is incredibly frustrating when you go to markup and agreement only to find that it has been "Protected." Fortunatly there is an easy hack that will get you around this frustration and will save you or your assistant from having to retype the agreement. Dependeing on the governing law in your jurisdiction, this may be a violation of the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions, so be sure to only use it on your own documents that you have accidentally locked yourself out of :)
This guy has rigged up a Mac Mini to the touch screen on his Toyota Prius. Check out his site for a step by step account of the mod with lots of pictures.
Check out Wired’s How-To Wiki for instructions on how to load CHDK (the Canon Hackers Developer’s Kit). Turn your cheap digital camera into a super shooter. Example of high speed shutter hack below:
Photo by: Leopard Gecko
Video of an automatic ball throwing machine and a smart little dog who knows how to reload it.
Johnny Chung Lee is a Ph.D. Grad Student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. From the projects listed on his website, it is apparent that he has a real knack for taking existing off-the-shelf technology and pushing it to the limit. In the embedded video below, Johnny takes Nintendo’s already innovative Wiimote [...]
Monday, June 9, 2008
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