Internet-tech, computer-tech, mobile-tech, energy-tech, eco-tech, green-tech, bio-tech, tech-tech, every day. That pretty much sums it up!
Thursday, 15 March 2012
U Grok It helps you find missing stuff using your phone & RFID
Something the author of the item linked below doesn't seem to understand is the term "grok". It is a word coined by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein for the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land". It means know or understand at a very deep level. For a time it became part of technofile English.
Notice the word "technofile". Today we might use the word "geek", but at the time "grok" was in use, "geek" still meant a 1930s US circus freak (usually mentally retarded, mentally ill or alcoholic) whose "act" commonly included eating a live chicken.
On infinite mind power, immortality & robot overlords
All for the first two; less enthusiastic about the last one.
http://techland.time.com/2012/03/14/kurzweil-south-by-southwest-keynote-speech-grossman/?iid=tl-main-lede
http://techland.time.com/2012/03/14/kurzweil-south-by-southwest-keynote-speech-grossman/?iid=tl-main-lede
3D prints
3D printed examples, including guitar bodies, a geared ring ("perfect for fiddling with in boring meetings", & who doesn't need one of those) & a robot.
Downloadable files for your 3D printer.
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