Lynne Kiesling Lately in the KP household we’ve been marveling even more than usual at the extent to which technology has beneficially transformed our lives. Yesterday we had a macabre, earthy sharing of stories, while visiting with friends and meeting their new daughter, about 19th-century doctors not realizing a woman was pregnant with twins, or …
Lynne Kiesling Toyota has prototyped a plug-in hybrid Prius, which will enable the vehicle to be plugged in to charge its battery instead of using the gasoline engine to do so. This type of versatility can have a variety of implications for the electric power network in the future, most interestingly (at least to me), …
Lynne Kiesling How cool is this? Purdue engineering researchers have made major progress on a new internal combustion engine design, using variable valve actuation. One remarkable innovation in this research is removing the connection between the crankshaft and the camshaft, which is what drives the pistons up and down. This design has been at the …
Lynne Kiesling I’m going to spend a couple of days in London on the way home from my conference, and in the course of looking up a shop address I found this fantastic resource: Street Sensation. For many neighborhoods in London, you click on a map and there will be a panning landscape of all …
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Michael Giberson In a post a year ago, I had this to say about Inkling Markets: The crowd has wisdom (maybe). You want it (certainly). Inkling wants to give you a shot at capturing it. With a recent redesign of their homepage, Inkling has added a few user quotes, including the above words of wisdom …
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Lynne Kiesling While we’re in the “how cool is this?” department, pro cycling team CSC has announced that we’ll be able to track all of their riders on the upcoming Tour de California using GSM cellular technology and Google Earth: During this year’s edition of the pro cycling race, the Computer Sciences Corporation, or CSC, …
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Lynne Kiesling I’ve often wondered how nanotechnology can contribute to increased efficiency, load factor, and conservation of energy. My first thoughts were probably wrong; we don’t need nano-scale devices to perform remote monitoring and automated repair and self-correction within the wires network itself. Regular small-scale devices can do just fine for that. But here’s some …
Lynne Kiesling I am playing a little hooky this weekend and going skiing through Monday. In the interim, here are some thought-provoking reads: This Technology Review article on technological change in small-scale coal gasification that could be done on-site, in the home. Michael Dell is back in the news today, after taking back the CEO …
Lynne Kiesling Woman does not live by economics alone (although sometimes I come pretty close!). I made this sweater: This is the popular Rogue hoodie, which lots of folks have been knitting over the past two years. I started this in October, and finished it on New Year’s Day. Yes, it was a lot of …
Lynne Kiesling OK, this is the kind of creative thinking that makes life beautiful. This CNET News article discusses a new service, Qunu, that aims to unleash distributed tech geek knowledge on tech support problems. In my experience, the best technical support on any product will come from somebody who actually uses and likes the …
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