Submitted For Consideration

The next time you make breakfast, pay attention to the exquisitely intricate choreography of opening cupboards and pouring the milk — notice how your limbs move in space, how effortlessly you use your weight and balance. The only reason your mind doesnt explode every morning from the sheer awesomeness of […]

Best rotate your owl video ever. I think we can all agree this is pure internet awesome, but few will will find as much value in it as I do. <via Art or Science>

        I gota admit, I love that there is a Radioshack two minutes from my house, and I go there often for emergency electronics. But every time I’m there I just wish it was just a bit better. I know it will never be great, I know that, but […]

An interesting read on the relationship between science fiction and technological research and development by Paul Dourish Read the whole paper here. Reading research literature as in some ways “fictive” is not intended to denigrate or dismiss it; rather, we want to draw attention to the ways in which both science fiction and the research literature are founded upon acts […]

Most people who work in corporations or academia have witnessed something like the following: A number of engineers are sitting together in a room, bouncing ideas off each other. Out of the discussion emerges a new concept that seems promising. Then some laptop-wielding person in the corner, having performed a […]