Category: Technology

Technology as it applies to me.

Natural History Magazine

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Natural History Magazine:
Experimenters working with both kinds of dark-matter detectors know that a formidable competitor looms on the horizon. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, just outside Geneva, is now scheduled to begin serious operation in mid-2008. Once up and running, the LHC will be the world’s biggest particle accelerator. Dug several hundred feet under the Swiss and French countryside, it will accelerate two clumps, or “beams,” of particles many times around a ring more than five miles across, before smashing the two beams into each other.

PISS-SCREEN.COM — // An interactive urinary experience – not to be mistaken with the Wii

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PISS-SCREEN.COM — // An interactive urinary experience – not to be mistaken with the Wii:
The Brief

Encourage people to take a taxi home with Frankfurt Taxi Services after having a few drinks, rather than get behind the wheel of their own car.

The Challenge

How to capture the inebriated attention of any potential drunk drivers? Well, where do most people go when they’re drunk? (Apart from the bar, that is. Or maybe for a kebab.) They go to the toilet. As such, we thought this would be the perfect medium to reach our target audience in a fresh and impactful way.

Our Solution

The Piss-Screen – a pressure-sensitive inlay set within urinals, enabling users to play while they pee. We installed this newfangled creation in male restrooms across Frankfurt, teaming up with a variety of bars, clubs and cafés. The game itself was displayed on a screen above each urinal, and would automatically start as soon as someone began to pee. The player could then control the car whilst relieving himself – if they wanted th

Could black holes be portals to other universes? – space – 27 April 2007 – New Scientist Space

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Could black holes be portals to other universes? – space – 27 April 2007 – New Scientist Space:
Wormhole study abstract

The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be wormholes leading to other universes, a new study says. If so, it would help resolve a quantum conundrum known as the black hole information paradox, but critics say it would also raise new problems, such as how the wormholes would form in the first place.

Senator pushes for expansion of “V-chip” video censorship technology

Senator pushes for expansion of “V-chip” video censorship technology:

The Democratic Senator for Arkansas — Mark Pryor is his name — wants to expand on the “V-chip” video content blocking program, and create a tracking system that could enable parents to censor content on platforms including TV, DVD, and the internet. A new bill proposed by Senator Pryor calls for the FCC to look into ways of blocking “indecent and objectionable programming, as determined by the parent” on basically all platforms capable of displaying images. As always, the devil is in the details: how exactly the FCC is going to figure out a method for precisely tracking obscenities on a “platform blind” basis remains to be seen, and the issue of classification of content is always sure to cause controversy. What politicos like Pryor always seem to miss is the fact that parental filters are already in place, albeit in messy meatspace form.