This is an essay written by Jeff Bigler back in 1996 after speaking to a friend at MIT. Jeff thinks that “geek” can be substituted for “nerd” and I agree. Very interesting and explains a lot of my interaction with people including my geek friends. What do you think? All people have a “tact filter”, [...]
October 2009 marked an important milestone in the history of computing. It was exactly 40 years since the first Multics computer system was used for information management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is regarded as the foundation of modern time-sharing systems. Multics was the catalyst for the development [...]
I predict in 5 years men will be wearing nail polish and liking it. All snarkiness aside, those people at MIT are just freaking geniuses. I can’t say it enough. Check out the links below for other cool MIT projects. Update: I figured the Glue Sniffing Chickens would pick the correct MIT posts at the [...]
Updated: I should have used the title “MIT Doesn’t Drop the Soap”. Oh well…*sigh* First the electricity producing shock absorbers, next the smart blocks and now a bar of soap. Those fuckers over at MIT are damned clever huh? Give a bunch of engineers some accelerometers (thank you Apple and Nintendo) and all of the [...]
MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. David Merrill demos Siftables, the smart blocks | Video on TED.com
I personally think that the path of capturing kinetic energy from daily operations is very exciting. I posted today about the hamsters and now this about the shock absorbers in cars. It’s exciting to see how much energy can be harvested from the parts that are already moving on our cars. Now the trick will [...]
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