Category Archives: Technology

Inside the World’s Largest Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Thanos

It Came from Riverside (Ep. 1): Inside the World’s Largest Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy – YouTube.

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The Demise of Spinning Disks and Other Technology Verges

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Thanos

It’s very clear that memory devices that use spinning platters and disks are all headed to obsolescence soon. This means Hard drives, CD players, DVD’s and DVD players. So what will the replacement be? The most likely replacement is streaming digital mixed … Continue reading →

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What I’ve been doing

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Thanos

I spent much of the past two weeks ripping all of my CD”s back into ITunes again & then nuking the old copies. The old format was a lossy 128 kbps .wav file, and the new format is a lossless … Continue reading →

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Rescued from the Archives: My Wonderwall

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Thanos

Here’s a post I wrote a few years back, but it’s more relevant now that people can see the prices of large flat screen displays dropping. We really aren’t that far from a day when they are inexpensive enough to … Continue reading →

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Let’s take back the Internet: Today’s Internet Censors and Arbiters

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Thanos

Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s take back the Internet! | Video on TED.com.

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When your machines talk together, What will they say about you?

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Thanos

As the rest of the century unfolds you will see machines and artificial Artificial Intelligence units talking among themselves more and more until that chatter becomes a persistent tapestry in the background of our lives that we only rarely hear … Continue reading →

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Dawn of the Omnisensor

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Thanos

I’ve been talking about cheap sensors and how all things electric are getting smaller and wireless, so let’s get a little crazy and look down the road at things that will probably come. At some point lens, camera logic and … Continue reading →

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The Age of the Cheap Sensor and Machine to Machine Chatter

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Thanos

Last post we talked about home medical sensors, and how they could easily become available for use with apps tied to a PC, IPOD, or other computing device in your home. I mentioned disposable pulse oximetry leads, thermometers, and BP … Continue reading →

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Medical Devices coming to an IPOD or PC near you soon?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Thanos

While in the hospital for my quint bypass last July one of the noteworthy things was how reliant the hospital is on moment by moment accurate measures of your vital signs to keep you healthy. The actual sensors they use … Continue reading →

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Primal Nerd Rage: Why I’m an Optimist

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Thanos

Predicting a technology’s future is problematic due to competing technologies, converging technologies, trailing standards bodies, and occasionally poor legislation — and those are just the minor factors. The major factors are the multitude of gaps between new technologies, some unseen … Continue reading →

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