Monthly Archive for May, 2009
about ten degrees increase in temp every day this week. strange.
“Flirt140 is a website and service that utilize Twitter profiles and tags in order to help you to find your ideal tweeting match. It pulls your bio, profile picture, and recent tweets to build quick profiles for any user on Twitter.”
In more exciting news from Twitter-land… FIRST TWEET FROM OUTER SPACE, by NASA’s Mike Massimino (aka Astro_Mike.)
Arthur C. Clark’s Three “Laws” of Prediction:
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey
“A research team from Ben Gurion University in Beer-Sheba, Israel, found that talking on a cellular phone harms the mental abilities of the user. This research may serve as a warning against one of the gadgets most of us use daily.” study details
Researchers at Washington University in St Louis are working on a mobile phone based ultrasound machine which could radically improve medical diagnosis in remote and inaccessible areas. The USB device can be used to scan internal body organs, eyes, and veins and arteries for IVs.
David Zar and William Richard are pricing the device at $500 (super cheap, compared to current portable imaging products.) Two thumbs up for making expensive technology gadgets accessible to more people!!
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