Hubble Starts to Wake Up
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Kitchens aren’t just for cooking and baking. When I have friends over, where do you think everyone hangs out? You guessed right, they pile into the kitchen – and mine is small. There’s something communal and magnetic about sitting around the table over hot plates and good conversation. And since the [...]Posted by on under image ccd, drunk pelicans, ccd cameras, rear view mirror, envirment, boing boing, writing machine, flickr, photo screen, backup camera, light image, car point, prome, hands in the air, rfid tags, alarming rate, ates, pelicans, moti, kitchen table |
Here's a fascinating rumination on the Bitworking site about how much of the promise of RFID tags is being realized by charge-coupled devices (CCDs -- the sensor in your digital camera) instead. CCDs seems to be subject to Moore's Law, and are falling in price and increasing in capacity at an alarming rate. The potential applications are significant: Put them on a car and point them out and you have a backup camera. Buy why restrict it to just backing up? Why isn't the rear-view mirror a full panorama of the environment around the whole car stitched together from a dozen CCD cameras? That's pointing out from the car, point them at the car and the possibilities are different. Put them next to highways to monitor rushhour traffic. Point them at your license plate and you have either an automatic red-light running ticket writing machine, or a new toll system, where a camera based system that reads license plates could be used instead of the current RFID based solutions. Put them on your house pointing outwards and you have a security system. Point them into the house and you have a system that turns the lights and HVAC off in rooms that are empty. Think how much better it would be than those motion sensing systems in some meeting rooms today, where the lights switch off in the room and everyone waves their hands in the air like a bunch of drunk pelicans trying to get the lights back. If I hang one over my kitchen table will it be able to count calories for me? Can I hang one over my desk and not need to buy a scanner? How about one in the bathroom? How much health information could you extract from an image taken every morning? Could it track my weight? Detect signs of depression? Obviously there are security and privacy concerns. CCD (via Making Light) (Image: CCD, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from AMagill's Flickr stream) Previously:Oligarch's yacht has a laser anti-photo screen - Boing Boing Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras - Boing Boing Camera zapper - Boing Boing Hollywood wants to infect all next-gen video with DRM - Boing Boing...Posted by on under amrita, ates, har, unity, spirit |
How cute are these kitchen items by imm Living? I love the designs, as well as the unity of spirit they embody.
Hot Plates by Amrita Takhar According to imm Living, “There is a growing disconnect between what we eat, where our food comes from and how it is prepared.” The hot plate [...]Posted by on under solutis, hotcakes, ates, loss weight, rui, dinnerware, weight gain, pereira, reminder, weight loss, wheel, shape |
Living in a society that constantly frets over weight loss, weight gain, and everything in between, I’d be surprised if the Wheel of Nutrition Plates by Rui Pereira and Hafsteinn Juliusson didn’t sell like hotcakes. They’re just another reminder that simple solutions shouldn’t be discounted too quickly. Remember the food pyramid [...]
