Category Archives: Technology
Social media & crime [infographic]
Stats and thoughts on social media related crime. It’s getting to be vacation season – stay safe!
Evolution of portable music [infographic]
Really interesting – how far we’ve come!
Interview with inventor of Kevlar, Stephanie Kwolek
I love this story. RIP, Stephanie Kwolek. “I love learning and I’m love learning new things, making discoveries… while her mother encourage creativity and even a future in fashion design, her father was a naturalist and inspired stephanie’s curiosity about the outdoors. I had a father who was very much interested and plants and trees. I spent a lot of
Mexico’s statement to support OA
Just last week, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto announced via his official webpage the enactment of reforms to several federal law frameworks concerning science, technology and education that will allegedly “insert Mexico into the Information and Knowledge Society”. The legislation changes, he claimed, would: • Give access to Mexicans open access to the scientific and academic production that is financed
Library of Congress has 700 Tb of data archived [video]
The U.S. Library of Congress is building the largest digital collection in the world with more than 700 terabytes of data.
1 stranded man in an airport + 1 camera + a roll of tape + found props + technology = well played
People are creative and technology helps us to be even more so! All by myself from Richard Dunn on Vimeo. More details and story here. Man Trapped Overnight at Vegas Airport Shoots Ridiculous Music Video http://gawker.com/man-trapped-overnight-at-vegas-airport-shoots-ridiculou-1588889578/
World Cup opening ceremony will be made by a paraplegic wearing an Iron Man-like robotic bodysuit controlled by signals from the brain
A little world cup news, an interesting story in technology. The first kick at the World Cup opening ceremony will be made by a paraplegic wearing an Iron Man-like robotic bodysuit controlled by signals from the brain. Brazilian doctor Miguel Nicolelis led a team of 156 scientists from around the world to create the futuristic exoskeleton, which was designed to