This is my last post for Gearfuse. What happens here next, I don't know; life on the Internet is flickering and glitchy, and I wouldn't have it any other way. In little more than two months, I've written nearly four hundred posts at Gearfuse, and I've been proud of them all (well, nearly all of them—it's just blogging, after all). Read More »
Author Archives: Matthew Battles
Taste of Tech: Breakfast, Shot from Guns
An atemporal history of puffed cereals suggests that the links between food and industry stretch back to the beginnings of civilization. The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD. Read More »
Please Don’t Take My Beta Chrome Away (4): the Uncanny Market
Living amidst a cornucopia of products that aren't products, we're learning that cultivating our gardens means working together. The final post in a series of chats about the Chrome notebook, with blogger Adam Rothstein. Read More »
Mystery Image: Mineral, Cultural, or Astronomical?
Ancient fissures left by long-absent water coursing over the Cydonian Plains of Mars? Dessicating petroglyph in Lascaux's trove of Paleolithic cave art? Or paint drying on an old board? Answer after the jump. Read More »
Please Don’t Take My Beta Chrome Away (3): the Panda & the Squirrel
Google goes for quiet comprehensiveness; Apple chooses charisma. Which strategy ensures success? Read More »
Pinheads All the Way Down
Bill O'Reilly takes on all those pinheads who think that gravity is enuf. But in a fantasy smackdown with Richard Feynman, who fares better? Videos after the jump. Read More »
Popcorn Apocalypse
Robert Krulwich can't believe Kevin Kelly is correct about technologies never disappearing. But even if it's true, are past results a guarantee of future progress? Read More »
Jupiter in the Moon’s Orbit: Off the Scale
If Jupiter were the moon's distance from Earth, a changed night sky would be the least of our problems. Read More »
Please Don’t Take My Beta Chrome Away (2): Cloud Castles
Adam Rothstein ponders hardware betas, connections between the world and the cloud, and products that aren't products, in the second post reviewing Google's Cr-48 Chrome Notebook. Read More »
Towers in the Mist
Remembering the Challenger disaster, 25 years later. Read More »
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