Archive for the 'Sensors' Category

Sensing The Coming Boom

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

John Robb of Global Guerrillas has put his finger on the power of the emerging sensor cloud as well as the powerful evolving trends in personal fabrication but he doesn’t tie them together via their Chinese connection. Here on the MJ, these all converge in the coming boom and Second Life. Yes, we can [...]

Reach Out and Make Things Happen

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

With Phidgets it’s getting cheaper and easier to touch the meshverse. There are a bunch of interesting and just plain crazy projects linked to from the Phidgets site. I mean were you thinking about Tetris Weightlifting?

This is the kind of Home Brew Computer Club stuff that spawned the PC revolution. See also Wikipedia [...]

Mississippi River Bridge Collapse

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Coleman said Gov. Tim Pawlenty had told him the 40-year-old bridge was inspected and “given a clean bill of health” three years ago.
6 dead as Mississippi River bridge falls amid rush hour in Minneapolis - CNN.com
Based on the photos just coming in, there will be many more than 6 fatalities before this is over. Even [...]

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