Mark’s article on GOOD! The Return of Amateur Science… Last week, while browsing the Popular Science archives (which recently became available on Google), I noticed that the earlier issues of this 138-year-old magazine contained quite a few articles devoted to amateur science. The 1940s and 1950s were a heyday for basement-based research, with experiments such […]
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Inventor’s 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world’s poorest see better @ The Guardian… Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device’s tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs filled with fluid, each of which is […]
PIxastic is a Javascript library that provides low level image processing capabilities to your web applications. Jacob Seidelin has been working on this as part of an all-Javascript image editor, and he decided to release the library under the MIT license earlier this month: Pixastic works by utilizing the HTML5 Canvas element which provides access […]
Nothing captures the holiday spirit like staggering numbers of alcoholic beverage bottles. [via Unpluggd]
In our house, we haven’t had cable tv for about 6 years. When we moved in, there was an antenna on the roof and coax cable to a bunch of locations where tvs could go. In the basement is a signal amplifier that seems to help all the equipment find the signal. It took some […]
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