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• Neighborhood Watch

  Sean Bonner’s network of blogs gives new meaning to the phrase “local news.”
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 12 2008
  • Contributors: Alissa Walker

• Project 010: Less Power to the People

  Bill Farren finds a way to make energy-efficient appliances available to people in poorer countries, too. A contribution to Project 010.
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  • 010: The China Issue
  • Date: Jun 04 2008
  • Contributors: GOOD magazine

• Vampire Energy

  Some household appliances cost us money while they sit around and collect dust. An original GOOD Video.
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  • 010: The China Issue
  • Date: Apr 22 2008
  • Contributors: Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie, Rowland Holmes, Nigel Holmes, E*Rock, and Danielle Flug

• Talk To The Hand

  In the days of yore (1989 to be exact), we saw the inception of Mattel's NES controller The Power Glove, the two-decades-old predecessor to the Wii remote, and the choice accoutrement of the antagonist from classic game-nerd film The Wizard ("I love the Power Glove. It's so bad!"). And a good measure of scientific progress is holding it up to its modern comparison: Today, Georgia Tech researchers are developing the next next generation of remote control technology—a tongue-controlled touch-pad. It's been called "grotesque," but obviously harnesses vast potential for paralytics—users could conceivably manipulate their surroundings entirely by moving their tongue. [Superfluous sexual innuendo omitted.] But there's much work yet to be done, one of the biggest challenges being to trim down the accompanying headgear, which, apparently, "looks like a prop from a 1980s movie." Image: From hand to mouth in 20 short years. Thanks Timmy
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  • Date: Aug 27 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Photosynth Is Live, Sort Of

  Do you recall Blaise Aguera y Arcas's demo of Photosynth at last year's TED Conference? It was basically the coolest thing we'd ever seen on the internet.
  
  As of yesterday, Photosynth is live. The catch: It looks like you need Windows to play with it. Does anyone have a PC we can borrow?
  
  Via TED.
  
  Oh, and, "The Photosynth site is a little overwhelmed."
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  • Date: Aug 21 2008
  • Posted by Patrick James

• Neuron Power

  Add to our report on recent scientific progress in making science "fiction" into science reality, a robot with actual real, living brain tissue. Gordon is being referred to in the science and robotics communities as Frankenrobot.
  
  His robot cranium contains a blob of grey brain matter stitched together from 50,000 to 100,000 living, cultured rat neurons that were extracted from rat fetuses and separated in an enzyme bath before being laid across a weave of electrodes that communicates with Gordon's body via Bluetooth. Oooh.
  
  One of the many potential pursuits of brain knowledge possible with Frankenrobots like Gordon is to discern how memories are actually stored in the real human brain. Another pursuit is to further break down the barrier between natural and artificial intelligence to the point of intense creepiness.
  
  Photo: Gordon and his brain
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  • Date: Aug 14 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• And I can use ILife on my PC how?

  Love the fact that Photosynth is getting its due, its probably one of the coolest things Microsoft has released lately, so cool it was featured on CSI:NY - the first time I ever heard anyone acknowledge Microsoft had something cool - even at the cost of quick quip "It's a Windows world....". As you may have pointed out that PhotoSynth only works on a PC, what MAC applications run on a PC? Itunes? How is it that every time Microsoft doesn't make a product for the MAC, Microsoft is trying to monopolize, take over the world, and so on, but no one EVER mentions that Apple hasn't released ILife for the PC, Iphone software for other mobile devices and when was the last time anyone was able to upgrade a MAC themselves? I'm just saying, seems like people forget that Microsoft has been playing fair for a long time but no one wants to give them credit.
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  • Date: Aug 26 2008
  • Posted by FortheLoveofChoice

• awesome

  I've been using it to make work go by more quickly. Machu Picchu...sigh.
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  • Date: Aug 22 2008
  • Posted by JVA

• glutenfreegirl, please clarify

  Thanks for calling the questionable source for this to our attention. You wrote that you called "the magazine"--you mean Good Magazine, right? When did you call? Did you ever get a response? ... I would like Good Magazine to provide a link to the source so the the data can be verified. And if the data isn't verifiable, they should offer a correction. It's irresponsible journalism to present inaccurate information as fact, especially considering how easily bad information can spread on the internet. In my web search (on 8/19/08), I found a bunch of sites that seemed to quote the same data and the same source. Since the original source doesn't appear to exist online, I am guessing they got the information from this site... So sites like Good Magazine have a responsibility to make sure that their information is accurate, and to correct that information when it is found to be inaccurate.
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  • Date: Aug 19 2008
  • Posted by amyjo