Those people reading this website that know me, know that I am responsible for flashmob.com. For far too long I let it sit as a hull of a website without serving as anything useful to anyone but spammers (who made good use of the unmoderated forum page).
The problem was not so much that I was [...]
I’ve been following nanotechnology for a long time and for as long as I can remember, nanotubes have been held as the first great delivery on nanotech’s big promises. But I’ve never been particularly impressed, because everytime I hear about nanotubes I have to remind myself that it will be years before I’ll get to [...]
So I went on a web search recently to see if there were any websites from hobbyists that had figured out a simple way of implementing an inductive charging system (like the kind you find on electric toothbrushes).
I hoped to find a fastidious account of some lonely guy on a quest to make a portable [...]
So it took me a while to figure out what the Pixel Factory, designed by Kenichi Okada, actually did. Something about the documentation told me that it had to be an amazing idea, and it is.
It’s basically a 7×7 pixel, completely mechanical, moving image player. It seems to be made out of cardboard, plexi, and [...]