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Researchers have long been working on brain implants that will help with memory loss. Now devices that can restore memory-generation capability for those who’ve suffered traumatic brain injuries are closer to becoming a reality.
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I’ve had an interest in robotics, dating back to my grad school days. So naturally I was intrigued by a recent article I saw on Futurism about how MIT scientists, funded by the city of Amsterdam are building “self-piloting” mini-barges — “Roboats” — “to cruise its canals and make better use of waterways that have […]
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Some Cornell students have built an FPGA-based pokerbot. And it's a lot faster than ARM- and Intel-based versions.
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Another tremendous application of technology: drones used to deliver organs for transplants.
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Like most of the world, I was saddened by the devastating fire that did so much damage to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last month. You don’t have to have been to this magnificent building, nor do you have to be religious, to be heartened that the damage was contained and the building will be […]
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This is my final post summarizing Gene Frantz's series on the IoT, which ran on Embedded Computing last summer.
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Gene Frantz has a lot to say about the IoT, including asking the provocative question: "is it time to go back to analog computing?"
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I recently came across series of blog posts by Gene Frantz, devoted to the IoT. Since coming across these posts, I’ve done a summary of Gene’s definition of the IoT, and a second post on his three-part discussion on aggregators, one of three IoT components he writes about (the others are the cloud and smart […]
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A summary of Bill Gates take on the new technologies that he feels will be changing the world for the better.
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Over on Embedded Computing, Gene Frantz had a series on the IoT . This post summarizes his discussion of aggregators.
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