Bike chain clock, by Andreas Dober.
microflarets
technology ∩ social change
Google has released the source to its Chrome OS (a Linux variant) which is firmly targeted at netbooks. Interesting differences include
- All applications are web applications
- Everything is sandboxed (for security, similar to what the OLPC OS, Sugar, does)
- All data is stored in the cloud
Put it on a touchscreen pixel-qi tablet, add Wikipedia and a decent pdf reader, and you get Hitchhikers guide version zero.
This isn’t getting enough attention. The UNSW has commercialised a vanadium redox battery (a battery with liquid cathode and anode and a solid electrolyte) with multiple demonstrations, including a 2.5MW wind farm on King Island, Tasmania.
A similar device developed at MIT is an entirely liquid battery (liquid cathode, anode and electrolyte that remain separate due to their different densities).
I think the UNSW version is safer (you don’t have to have to keep it at 700C) although it delivers a lower current per kg. Whichever one is adopted, there is no doubt that this type of battery may be only practical (and scalable) alternative to pumping-water-up-a-hill storage of electricity — a device which is needed more desperately than renewable power atm.
I want a pair of Coxto Campers but cannot find them short of flying to Sydney to window shop. if anyone has seen them, let me know.
NIN fan produced dvd
NIN, continuing to push the boundaries. It can truly be said that the fans form part of this band.
the pirate bunker
not only will they outlive threats from the entertainment industry, they may yet outlive us all.
