Here’s a creative sign for a sugar substitute which incorporates live ants to verify its sweetness.
Joshua Kinberg built a cool Internet-connected, sidewalk-chalking bike which he used to protest at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
An interesting article by Bob Palais illustrating that many formulas become simpler and more intuitive if we let π = 2π. π Is Wrong!
Jeff Hawkins’ Numenta releases their cortex-inspired Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) model for artificial intelligence. This might be computationally interesting, but it is based on some painful simplifying assumptions about the biological cortex, and it bothers me that Hawkins seems to think that this is more than an interesting computational model—that is somehow an accurate representation [...]
Picotux is a miniscule Linux computer. Measuring 35mm x 19mm x 19mm, it sports an ARM7 CPU running at 55 MHz, 8 MB SDRAM, 10/100 Mbit Ethernet, and an uClinux kernel 2.4.27 running Busybox 1.0.
