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Philippe Fenderson  //  The personal mini-blog of Dr Philippe K Fenderson, KSC, ASL; designer and member of the PinkOnBrown collective.

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Feb 6 / 12:56pm
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Antikythera computer from 2000 years ago more complex than first imagined

The findings, published in Nature, are probably best described as "mind blowing." Devices with this level of complexity were not seen again for almost 1,500 years, and the Antikythera mechanism's compactness actually bests the later designs. Probably built around 150 B.C., the Antikythera mechanism can perform a number of functions just by turning a crank on the side.
via io9.com

Been following the Antikythera phenomenon for most of my life...since I gained interest around age 11. It is so amazing that people overlook simple - yet mind-blowing - discoveries such as this.
Don't you understand? We had advanced computers and calculating mechanisms 1500 years before ANYTHING ELSE of its kind was seen. And this device was seemingly mass-produced. The encroaching hordes of religious warriors and dogmatic belief systems have set us back thousands of years.

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Jan 30 / 2:56pm
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iPad vs Stone

via 9gag

Filed under  //  apple   device   humor   image   ipad   technology  

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Jan 3 / 3:36pm
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Try and turn this box on

A box that fights over control for the simplest of options - whether or not it can rest. There is also a guide to build your own on Instructables. A similar box is the Leave Me Alone Box.

via BoingBoing

Filed under  //  device   fun   invention   technology  

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Dec 23 / 11:07am
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Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway


It's blog posts like this one that make give me hope in my ideas. Maybe I should get off my ass and do something about it.

"My idea isn't good enough yet" explained a friend who is thinking of starting his own company. He was waiting for the idea to be completely fleshed our before taking the leap.

Here's a newsflash: Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.

Sounds wrong?  Let's see.

In 1998, a company received $4.8 million in funding to "beam money between Palm Pilots."  I'll code-name this product: MoneyBeamer.

Would you have invested in them? Not with an idea like that. You'd be wrong though -- it was PayPal. Their work with encryption was combined with an idea for a consumer-targeted on-line banking system made it the easiest way to send money by email. They were sold to eBay for $1.3 billion.

Filed under  //  hope   inspiration   technology  

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