Category Archives: Technology

2012 Feb 05 Sunday

Lytro Light Field Camera first look with Ren Ng: Digital Photography Review

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Interesting technology, but the test images I’ve seen from this camera are not sharp enough to make this camera worthwhile… Lytro Light Field Camera first look with Ren Ng: Digital Photography Review

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:20 pm

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2012 Jan 02 Monday

How Google’s Self-Driving Car Works

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Google seems to be the leader in achieving one of humanity’s remaining sci-fi dreams: the self-driving car. According to an article on the IEEE’s Spectrum blog: [Stanford University professor Sebastian] Thrun and his Google colleagues, including co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are convinced that smarter vehicles could help make transportation safer and more efficient: [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:28 am

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2011 Oct 31 Monday

Lytro Light Field Camera revolutionizes depth of field

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A new camera from a company called Lytro has been getting a ton of hype in the photography media for a few months. Their “Light Field Camera” is now available in 2 memory sizes (8 and 16 GB). The concept is that the camera is a true point-and-shoot in that “the lens of the camera [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:24 pm

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2011 Oct 17 Monday

William Gibson, interviewed

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My brother and I just went to a William Gibson interview (Chicago Humanities Festival: Technology’s Tomorrow: Sci-Fi with William Gibson) at Northwestern University. Through no fault of Gibson’s it was a near disaster: the microphones didn’t work properly and the interviewer was a pretentious mess. Gibson was asked questions about his writing process (something like, [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 12:30 am

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2011 Oct 12 Wednesday

RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us – YouTube

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Very interesting talk on what motivates us… RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us – YouTube

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:35 am

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2011 Oct 05 Wednesday

Steve Jobs is dead

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Co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, has died. In 1996, it was on the brink of irrelevance, but Jobs retook the reigns as CEO and turned Apple into a multi-disciplinary powerhouse of a company, even (briefly) to the level of most highly valued company on Earth. I’ve been an Apple customer and advocate from the age [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 9:40 pm

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2011 Aug 19 Friday

Completely Off The Grid

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With the recent installation of more solar panels, Strizki now generates 21 kilowatts, or about twice as much power as he needs, and sells the extra to the power company, netting him about $25,000 a year. Completely Off The Grid.

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:48 pm

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2010 Jun 26 Saturday

Graffiti in New York City (via Tableau Software)

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I was searching for some free data visualization software (to create “mind maps” of my hair-brained schemes), and I found tableau software. One of the demos of their software is a data visualization of graffiti incidents and resolution actions in NYC. This is obviously intended as a tool for the city to track crime and [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:58 am

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2010 Jun 04 Friday

Pointing to the future of UI by John Underkoffler (via TED.com)

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You’ve seen the movie-version of Philip K. Dick‘s Minority Report, right? You remember those goofy-looking hand gestures Tom Cruise made while interacting with the computers of the future, right? Those gestures have been the source of many jokes between UI/UX experts, but yesterday I found out they were nothing to laugh about. Those gestures were [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:33 pm

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2010 May 27 Thursday

The TED v. Sarah Silverman Fight Turns Really Retarded

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This is old news to the Internet, but kinda new to me. Apparently Sarah Silverman was invited to do her shtick at TED in February, but the organizers didn’t think she’d actually DO HER SHTICK. Officially the are saying very little about it, but a flame war erupted on Twitter. Read about it: The TED [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 4:41 pm

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