Action video game play facilitates the development of better perceptual templates

Scoreboard!  Playing games makes you smarter.  To make this study on topic, that means that making video games is a productive career and not equivalent to moving to California to be an actor.  Read More…

Coding School For Kids

Some day soon school will expand to the Four R’s from three.  Reading, Riting, Rithmatic, and Rogic.  Okay, that didn’t work with three either.  But like I tell the kids (and yes, you are kids) in my class, learning programming isn’t just for getting a programming job.  It improves your brain in a different and important way.  So do games.   Read More…

The Next Big Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of

Apple’s Swift came along and killed Objective C right after I got out of it.  Is this supposed to do the same to C++ right after I get back in?  Read More…

Teddy Bears at the Push of a Button: CMU-Disney Researcher Invents 3D Printing Technique for Making Soft, Cuddly Stuff

I know, I know.  3D printing again.  But teddy bears!  Don’t have the ability to mix ingredients yet so no army men with Jayne hats, but once we do… You can eat your printed food on a printed plate with a printed napkin in your printed house.  Star Trek style.  No more lazily printing one thing at a time.  The whole TGiving dinner and service gets printed at once.  Read More…

PERFORMANCE – PERsonalised FOod using Rapid MAnufacturing for the Nutrition of elderly ConsumErs

That acronym is a stretch.  But anyway, it may seem that I just have some google alert on 3-d printing or something lately, but dood.  We are printing FOOD now.  Creepy mush space food, but food.  If Amazon came out with a 3-5 foot cube printer you could get everything you ever needed with no shipping time or shipping costs.  Go to the catalog, click a link, it’s waiting in your living room.  Read more…

Explanation of the Heartbleed security fiasco

The comic is faster than any simplification I can make.  Other than that security is hard, and businesses relying on open source code is ridiculous.  And xkcd rules.  Read/See More…

Watch a Woman Get a New 3D-Printed Skull

I can’t resist posting a 3D printing story.  Score one more for medicine.  This might also eventually be a point for Shadowrun as well though once the plastics we use become lighter and stronger than bone.  Read More…

Tiny Transistors for Extreme Environs

These use plasma instead of electricity so they can work in superhot environments.  First use was in 2008, but now they are hella small.  I have no idea if these are going to matter, but it is the weird sideways jumps that actually move technology forward.  Read More…

Using the post page for birthday wishlists is unacceptable

Have you seen this collapsible battery assisted bike?  Sure would be easier to commute by train and then bike the remainder of the distance if somebody had one of these.  Read More…

This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes

How it works, see, is the train moves, not the station.  By putting all the words in the same spot, you eliminate the need to move your eyes.  No more eye strain; very small books.  Would you like to know more…