Blog Archive for bboyes during October 2005
The NewScientist article describes what appears to be a glaring lack of system design. RFID in a passport might sound like a good idea, but consider this:
Without any protection, the passports might be "skimmed" – read at a distance by strangers as people walked through any public place. The weakness could allow a government to track someone, or allow a criminal to steal the names, digital...
We are looking for art that reflects the panorama of the possible interaction between 'synthetic' and organic life, e.g.
- Autonomous agents that shape and perhaps interpret the data-saturated environment we have in common.
- Portraits of inter-subjectivity or empathy shared between artificial entities and ourselves.
- Intelligent anthropomorphisation of the datasphere and its inhabitants.
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This InfoWorld article describes how an ASIC with an integrated transmitter is suspended in the middle of the ball to survive acceleration and hard kicks. Antennas in light masts and other locations distributed around the arena collect data that is transmitted from the ball. It uses the 2.4 GHz frequency range, and the developers are battling how to prevent interference with WiFi, among other...
An answer to the $100 PC? by ZDNet's John Carroll -- George Ou and others have asked whether the $100 PC is possible. Perhaps we need to escape traditional conceptions of a computer in order to see the possibilities.
I say: forget the $100 PC. Why not, instead, a combination cell phone, WiFi, small tablet, camera, secure storage, PDA device which we use for communication, banking, online...
Vex Robotics has some very sturdy-looking components such as these gears and sprockets, and especially these large-scale treads. Robot magazine will debut with an article about using Vex components to build a scaled-down iRobot PackBot - see it in action here, climbing over some concrete blocks. I had the chance to see Vex up close at Robonexus, and was impressed with the quality and reasonable...
