Contents tagged with Technology
Founder Stories Interviews Lauren Leto of Texts from Last Night
TechCrunch interviews Lauren Leto, one of the founders of TFLN. In the Founder Stories video above, Leto tells host Chris Dixon how Texts From Last Night got started and how she quit law school to move to New York City from Detroit. She ended up in Brooklyn at the Makery, a co-working space …
Another Use for Kinect
You may have heard about surgeons use Kinect in the operating room to avoid touching a mouse & keyboard when looking at MRI/CT imagery. This helps to avoid having to re-scrub since they don’t actually touch anything. Well, this is useful for the home, too. While helping to make …
Military Research and Development Under the Tree
Interesting slide deck on the long term impact of DoD R&D on consumer technology. I would also add the manned space program as the origin of our everyday tech. 2012 Holiday Military R&D Shopping Guide from AEI
Juggling Robot Courtesy of Kinect
Researchers in Pittsburg, working on behalf of Disney, have created a robot that can play catch and even juggle. It’s time for me to start building robots.
Blogging from the Sky
Now that I’m my way back from Vegas, I have a ton of emails to catch up on. Since I didn’t take my usual red eye back, I had the chance to try out in-flight internet. I have to say, that while the speeds have not been consistent, I am quite happy with the service. Better yet, since Virgin …
10 Things Your Kids May Never See
The relentless march of technology means that from childhood to adulthood a great deal of technologies come and go. My son, who’s three, expects every screen to be a touch screen and takes ubiquitous broadband internet for granted. Some time ago, I came up with a similar list. If he only knew the …