The Institute for Sustainable Communications
((("Intelligent printing" isn't just cyber — it's greener.))) http://www.sustaincom.org/ "The Institute for Sustainable Communication has developed an easy-to-use Design for Sustainability (DfS)...
View ArticlePrinting with Quantum Dots
http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192501266 EE Times: Latest News MIT spinoff demos quantum dot display technology Nicolas Mokhoff EE Times (09/01/2006 5:35 PM EDT) MANHASSET,...
View ArticleKonarka: Printing Plastic Power
(((Solar panels as plastic ribbon. No, they're not kidding.))) http://www.konarka.com/ "Konarka develops light-activated power plastic that is flexible, lightweight, lower in cost and much more...
View ArticleHacker-Pewlard, I mean Hewlett-Packard
(((The pity of this is the way HP sinks into a darkside mire of hackerdom while investigating THEMSELVES. It's like watching an angry family trying to break a will — the pitiful repugnance of people...
View ArticleArphid Watch: Arphid Art in London
TAGGED — Opening TOMORROW//Five new works by artists working with RFID technology as part anongoing project produced by [ space.media.arts ]// Opening Reception: 6 October, 6 – 9pm;...
View ArticleThe Giant Kosovo
(((How interesting to see nation-states learn to behave as effectivelythe Russian mafia has been behaving for decades now.In the continuing era of state-failure and the Giant Kosova strategy,we can...
View ArticleThe Wit and Wisdom of the 21st-Century Printing and Packaging Biz
Overheard at the "INTELLIGENT PRINTING" conference, Oct 2006 "We're in the business of putting goo on a substrate." "We need a taxonomy for 'printing-that-is-no-longer-printing.'" "Your mega-customer,...
View ArticleArphid Watch: K. Albrecht Declares Design Students Unfazed, Uncomprehending
http://www.spychips.com/blog/2006/10/we_want_to_know_where_youve_be.html October 04, 2006 Tracking Where You've Been If you've read the foreward to Spychips, you know that sci-fi writer and futurist...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Fix the Pitifully Slow, Expensive Internet Access in the U.S.
While our government representatives in Dubai discuss global internet access, it’s worth considering some of the access limitations on our own soil. Internet access is still very expensive compared to...
View ArticleThe NextGen Benjamins Fiasco
Where's my newfangled, high-tech hundy? The Fed won't say when the new $100 bill will begin circulating after problems with printing revealed creasing and blank strips. Meanwhile, the world's...
View ArticleHow to Buy Friends and Influence People on Facebook
Whoever said you can't buy friends was dead wrong. Here's our guide to the not-so-underground friend market.
View ArticleAmerica Doesn’t Need Google Fiber Everywhere — But We Do Need Its Buzz
The difference between the standard internet access that shapes our imagination and a fiber-to-the-home connection is as great as the difference between no electricity and an electrified life. But I...
View ArticleMexico’s Lucky to Have Just One Man Blocking Internet Equality. We’ve Got a...
Carlos Slim's profit-taking is neither illegal nor evil. It's entirely rational for him to allocate capital to dividends and profits rather than investing in upgrades to his network, much less...
View ArticleBig Cable’s Sauron-Like Plan for One Infrastructure to Rule Us All
The issue is 'cableization' of the entire Internet Protocol enterprise. While innovators around the world want to develop world-changing applications that require a lot of bandwidth — think...
View ArticleLatest Pew Study Shows 70 Percent of U.S. Has Broadband. But Access Is Still...
The news of an overall rise in 'high-speed broadband' adoption will likely be trumpeted by America's giant communications companies and policymakers. But before we start celebrating, look closely at...
View ArticleLittle Reddit Book: Alexis Ohanian Calls for More Tech Nerds
Photo: Platon Alexis Ohanian was barely out of college when he founded Reddit with Steve Huffman in 2005. A year later, the social news site was sold to Condè Nast (which also owns this magazine), and...
View ArticleRidley Scott Teams with Cormac McCarthy for The Counselor
Like a lot of directors, Ridley Scott often works with the same crew. For October’s crime thriller The Counselor, though, the man who brought us Blade Runner and Thelma&Louise teamed up with a new...
View ArticleBill Gates: Here Are the Books I Read When Out on the Road
I read while traveling, waiting for meetings, in the evening, and especially on vacation. As you can see, I’m still pretty much an old-school print guy, because I like to jot notes in the margins, but...
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