“‘Thinking cap’ makes you better at art, math”
Remember how your parents/grandparents/schoolteachers used to use the phrase “put on your thinking cap”? Someone has actually come up with one. And it apparently works, too.
Archive of posts filed under the Science and Technology category.
Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“Planet with British weather found 20 light years away”
Sounds like a fun planet to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. 😉
3D Printing
3D printing is a really interesting technology that’s quickly gaining steam. With a 3D printer (like the RepRap), you can quickly make everything from shoes to your own parts for long-dead technology to your own action figure souvenirs. Future (and much larger) 3D printers might just build your next house for you. Today’s 3D printers …
“Princess Leia demo with Kinect and holographic projector”
How fitting that a scene from a science fiction movie is not only the direct inspiration for a technology, it’s also the first demonstration of it. The demo doesn’t look all that impressive here, but I suspect it would be a lot more impressive if seen in person.
“Engineering student cracks major riddle of the universe”
Big news in the science of astrophysics. I hadn’t heard that anyone was even remotely near figuring out where the universe’s missing mass might be. Immensely hot, immensely long shoe-strings of matter… who’da thunk? 😉 Might make an interesting component of a hard science fiction story. A space station, slowly moving along one of these …
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Odd Blog Problem
For some reason, when Geek Drivel’s hosting company upgraded PHP this morning, the server stopped handling PHP files at all. Any time I tried to go to a page on the blog, the server tried to send it to me as a download instead. Removing the “user defined MIME type” change that the company added …
“UK start-up pitches touch-to-sync tech for watches”
I’ve been using the Casio Data Bank watches since they first came out when I was a teenager, but I have to admit that since I got my first Palm PDA, the only thing I really use it for is to see the time, and occasionally for the countdown timer. Data-watches, never overly popular in …
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“World IPv6 Day has Facebook, Google & Yahoo Support”
It seems that the big players, at least, are finally bowing to the inevitable and starting to test IPv6. I’ve got too many pieces that aren’t IPv6-ready to handle any kind of native IPv6. My computer hardware is all ready, and all of the operating systems I use support it (Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal,” Mac …
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A New Password Manager
I’ve mentioned a couple times before that I used KeePassX, the unofficial Linux port of the highly-thought-of KeePass Password Safe. A few months ago I decided that I’d gotten tired of using it… KeePassX had only basic password management features, it lacked most of the nice features that I heard KeePass had, like automatically and …
Self-Discovery, Part 2
(In part 1, I talked about discovering a few weeks ago that there’s a name for the differences between myself and others, High-Functioning Autism, referred to as HFA from here on. This part focuses on my reactions to that discovery.) I’m still trying to make sense of my life in light of this new information. …