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Experiences from the ‘Archaeology-of-contemporary-biomedicine-garbage-day’ - Part 2
Well, the new iTunes made me do it.
I’ve been watching more video via iTunes podcast subscriptions than watching TV.
I love my mac, but…
wouldn’t it be nice to sit elsewhere in the house
or listen to stuff while driving to work?
Yup. So new iPod.
What I listened to this morning while on my walk:
NPR: Your Health
Doctors Question Rise in Skin Cancer Biopsies
What they’ve found is that we can detect it earlier.
But we haven’t sorted out how to be more accurate at that earlier stage in determining which to remove and which to simply monitor.
PRI/BBC The World’s Podcasts
The World is pleased to offer four weekly podcasts. You can subscribe to our podcasts, via iTunes, My Yahoo, Odeo, PodNova, or your favorite rss reader.
April 6, 2007
Tech Podcast 146
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change looks at the impacts of global warming. This podcast explores how climate change is affecting our world: from Africa, to South America, to Europe. And what global warming could mean in your neck of the woods.
Apple seminar “Podcasting Recipe”
You will need to register for this free series on performing, producing and promoting.
“…this free, on-demand, three-part seminar. Apple expert will take you behind the scenes to see….”
And the TED videos are available within iTunes as well as many other interesting information sources.
New evidence of water on Mars - slide show on C-net
A high resolution camera gives scientists a closer look at the Deuteronilus Mensae region of Mars. The photos were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) from the ESA Mars Express spacecraft which is currently orbiting Mars. The area, which is likely to have been formed by glaciers, is located at 39 degrees north and 23 degrees east on the Red Planet. The center of the image is dark due to a large depression.
…But one of the more interesting tangents that Google is pursuing is the use of 3-D modeling to attach buildings and structures to satellite maps so that landscapes can eventually be viewed (and explored) from any perspective.
Google uses a software it acquired last year, SketchUp, to allow people to create digital renderings of objects, their homes or entire city blocks, which are then kept in something called the 3D Warehouse — from which the most accurate renderings are grafted onto the Google Earth database….
from “Why Hollywood Is Getting Serious About 3-D”, New York Times by Richard Siklos, May 27, 2007
…Part of the enthusiasm for 3-D is what it will mean for creative expression and story-telling. And part
of it is Hollywood’s response to changing technologies — you can be sure that James Cameron’s aptly named feature “Avatar,” scheduled for release in 2009, will look a whole better in a movie theater than it will on a laptop or iPod.
Last week, I sat in a nearly empty Times Square theater and watched “Meet the Robinsons,” the animated, 3-D Walt Disney feature that has taken in a solid $150 million since its premiere on March 30. Like many other 3-D offerings that studios are bringing to the screen, it was projected on a digital system called Real D that a growing number of theaters are installing.
It’s doubtful that even the current generation of glasses —simple black plastic frames with clear lenses — would satisfy Bono’s tastes. But they are fairly unobtrusive and, without them, the image on the screen is a blur. With them, the 3-D illusion enhances the experience, making a robot’s head seem to extend to the seatback in front of you, and streams of peanut butter and jelly fly past your face.
It’s more than a gimmick, but to my eyes it’s hardly a revolution, either — it’s a device that can make a good story better, but can’t make a dull story good….
New York Times article by Richard Siklos, May 27, 2007
At Maker Faire, no one is surprised to see a chariot being pulled by a robot.
Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com
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The Neverwas Haul, a self-propelled, steam-powered, three-story Victorian House on wheels, which was inspired by the science fiction of Jules Verne.
Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com
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