According to sci-fi novelist Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That's how I feel about American pizza delivery. It's all about an obsession with convenience bordering on the quantum, and it's what makes America the best country in the world. Read More »
Cupertino opens up the north forty for farming as app-culture's Green Revolution continues apace. Read More »
This brilliant hack of a 1980s-vintage Brother knitting machine looks almost as complicated as knitting itself. Read More »
An international group of scientists proposes a "knowledge collider" to bring supercomputing to bear on social problems. While crunching the numbers won't be a problem, figuring out what they mean will prove more challenging. Read More »
The Norwegian firm Elliptic Labs’ booth at CES next week will feature several implementations of a touchless, gesture-based interface for tablets and mobile devices, according to the company. Unlike the Kinect, Elliptic’s interface, called Ultrasonic Touchless Input, graphs hand movements using echolocation. Bathing the user in a silent ultrasonic torrent, it measures the return time of rebounding sonic impulses to ... Read More »
After fifteen years I've finally found the perfect writer's machine in the new 11.6-inch MacBook Air. It fuses together both the best software and hardware of which a writer could ever dream, while boasting all of the slender and effortless portability of a composition journal. It is a writer's terminal in the purest sense: with its excellent battery life, ephemeral weight, satisfying keyboard and instant-on capabilities, the new MacBook Air is perfectly suited to be the nexus into the inner chaos of my own thoughts, feelings, hang-ups, pretensions and emotions as a blank page. So why isn't writing any easier? Read More »
Engineering beneficial computer viruses to protect wireless devices, researchers learn to treat time as a network. Read More »
A business-machine brand and icon of twentieth-century design jumps into the tablet race. Read More »
By studying the search algorithms of ants, researchers are discovering ways of making computer networks faster and smarter. Read More »
An ancient device for predicting the occurrence of solar eclipses gets a fun, lucid reboot—in interlocking plastic blocks. Read More »
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