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A Running Shoe For Agent 86?
A Running Shoe For Agent 86?
05/06/2004 03:04 AMAdidas Trots Out Computerized Running
Shoe
Adidas Trots Out Computerized Running
Shoe
03/27/2005 03:48 PMABCNEWS.com Mar 27 2005 7:11PM GMT
Bionic Dolphin
Bionic Dolphin
12/17/2004 06:43 PMinnespace.com: I've known a lot
of women in my life who would have given their right arm to
become a dolphin. Now they can, sort of.
These positively buoyant vessels use their forward
momentum and the downward lift of their wings to literally fly below
the water's surface. This radical departure from the typical method of
sinking below the surface allow the Bionic Dolphins to achieve an
unparrallelled level of freestyle performance.
The official site is here, though it's utterly
hopeless from a usability perspective. A good CNN article is her
e.
A little reading enlightening me to the way dolphins swim. They
swim in the same way that planes fly, just in reverse. They can only
stay underwater if they keep moving, because it's the movement of
water over their "wings" that lets them "fly" downward into the water,
in the same way that it's the movement of air of a plane's wings that
let's it fly upward into the air. (At least, I think that's how it
works...)
Jim Carrey as The Bionic Man?
Jim Carrey as The Bionic Man?
11/10/2003 10:56 PMSerious Steve Austin (played by Lee Majors in the 70s) will fall by
the wayside as rubber face
Jim
Carrey Goes Bionic.
This new
Six Million Dollar Man will be a action-comedy spoof
of the
original with funny man Jim Carrey. The Six Million Dollar Man is
expected to start shooting in fall 2004. No word on whether the Bionic
Woman or the Bionic
Dog will show up.
Bionic suit
Bionic suit
04/12/2005 04:33 PMDavid Pescovitz:
BB pal Alberto Gaitán says that the latest rev of HAL (Hybrid
Assistive Limb), a mobile suit gundam of sorts, "looks like a pain to
dress into, but it sure would go far into making the otherwise-able
more fully-abled. I think it's exciting for gimps (and I say that with
all due
pride)." From New Scientist:
(Click image for diagram of HAL 3.) Two control systems interact
to help the wearer stand, walk and climb stairs. A "bio-cybernic"
system uses bioelectric sensors attached to the skin on the legs to
monitor signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles. It can do
this because when someone intends to stand or walk, the nerve signal
to the muscles generates a detectable electric current on the skin's
surface. These currents are picked up by the sensors and sent to the
computer, which translates the nerve signals into signals of its own
for controlling electric motors at the hips and knees of the
exoskeleton. It takes a fraction of a second for the motors to respond
accordingly, and in fact they respond fractionally faster to the
original signal from the brain than the wearer's muscles do...
"It's like riding on a robot, rather than wearing one," says
(University of Tsukuba researcher Yoshiyuki) Sankai.
Link
Bionic eye will let the blind see
Bionic eye will let the blind see
04/05/2005 08:27 AMScientists have designed a artificial eye that should allow blind
people to see again.
Mexico's Bionic Attorney General
Mexico's Bionic Attorney General
07/13/2004 05:32 PMDave sez: El Universal (Mexico
City) is reporting that the Attorney General of Mexico, Rafael Macedo,
had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him
access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he
is ever abducted.
Bloomberg news added "about 160 Mexican officials will carry the
microchip" and that "the chip can't be removed, but will be
deactivated after Macedo's term as attorney general expires." Link
BBC NEWS | Health | Bionic eye will let
the blind see
BBC NEWS | Health | Bionic eye will let
the blind see
04/06/2005 01:42 PMBionic eye will let the blind see .. a chance to see the world .. aan
dit bionische oog
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Ophthalmologists, Physicists Design
Bionic Eye
Ophthalmologists, Physicists Design
Bionic Eye
04/05/2005 09:39 PMDigital People: From Bionic Humans to
Androids
Digital People: From Bionic Humans to
Androids
08/09/2004 12:51 AMSix Teams Meet This Week in Bionic "Iron
Man" competition
Six Teams Meet This Week in Bionic "Iron
Man" competition
12/17/2004 06:40 PMTeams from across the U.S. will meet in a robotic showdown that
combines both brains & brawn in a competition that matches a human
operator with a powered, articulated exoskeleton. Each team has built
its own exoskeleton. Team members range from high school students to
professional engineers. [PRWEB Oct 22, 2004]
RUNNING OUT
OF ROOM, RUNNING OUT OF TIME
RUNNING OUT
OF ROOM, RUNNING OUT OF TIME
01/07/2004 01:22 PM
When I was researching the
article One Billion
Americans?,
I got thinking about the implications of the wildly conservative
Census
Bureau projections of US population, and the embarrassing drastic
upward revisions that have been made to them, for global
population projections. What made the US projections so wrong (US
population peaking at 295 million was predicted as recently as fifteen
years ago) was the compound error of underestimating the extent of
immigration and overestimating the rate at which immigrants adjust
their family size to the average of their new country, or the global
average. It's an understandable error -- there's lots of evidence that
population growth rates in the developing world are falling quickly.
But that's not because third
world countries are evolving to two-child-or-less families as infant
mortality drops. Rather, it's because those countries are simply
unable
to sustain more children, so parents are reluctantly, temporarily
reducing family size as a result. Give them the option to emigrate to
a
developed country, and cultural preference, religious dictates, and
improved health care will jump their family size (and life expectancy)
back up again. And as inevitable ecological and humanitarian
catastrophes arise in the 21st century in dozens of third world
countries, compounded by the scourges of new diseases, horrendous
shortages of clean water, and desertification and crop flooding due to
global warming, the pressure to increase immigration quotas by orders
of magnitude will be fierce.
Back in 1990 when the pundits were predicting US population would peak
at 295 million (it passed that level last year and is now expected to
peak at between 550 million and 1.2 billion, if it peaks at all), they
were saying global population would peak at around 9-11 billion in
2100. But for that to happen with a US population of, say, 900 million
instead of 300 million, would mean average third world family size
would be much smaller than average US family size. The UN projections,
for example, assume annual average growth rate for Africa, Asia and
Latin America of 0.5% in the latter half of this century, compared to
a
current growth rate in those areas (even including China with its
already-low birth rate) of 2.1%, and compared to a current US growth
rate of 0.9%, which is trending back up to a projected 1.3% rate for
most of the current century, thanks to immigration.
So the 9-11 billion global peak population just doesn't add up. While
it doesn't make sense to get Malthusian and project population will
grow indefinitely at current rates (1.3%, i.e. a doubling every 50
years to 24 billion by 2100), it's equally illogical and irresponsible
to suggest that the whole world will start immediately radically
reducing its fertility rate to achieve in just two generations the low
fertility rate that Europe took one hundred generations to reach. If
you assume that the levels of immigration now
projected by the US Census Bureau will prevail throughout the
developed
world, that first- and second-generation citizens of developed
countries will continue to have considerably larger-than-replacement
level families in their new adopted countries, that the prevailing
pro-fertility population dogmas of organized world religions will not
suddenly be changed, that population pressure in the third world will
be eased somewhat by immigration and that modest drops in family size
in those countries will be largely offset by longer life expectancy,
as
has been observably the case in almost every third world country
except
China, then instead of the 9-11 billion peak the UN is currently
talking about, you end up with population soaring past 14 billion in
2100, with no end in sight (left chart above).
The curved red line shows the carrying capacity of Earth, assuming a
modest annual increase in productivity from the current 30 billion
acres (productive-capacity adjusted), assuming average footprint per
capita continues to increase by a modest 1% per year, and assuming no
land on the planet is reserved for wilderness or natural space for the
rest of Earth's creatures. It shows in 2000 that the world could
sustain 5 billion humans at the then-prevailing level of consumption.
That's a billion humans less than actually inhabited the planet then,
possible only by depriving much of the world of a subsistence level of
resources, and by taking more from the Earth (in non-renewable
resources) than we replaced, essentially stealing the excess from
future generations. At the expected global level of per-capita
consumption in 2100 (still well below today's North American
consumption levels), carrying capacity drops to 2 billion humans. That
number is substantiated by a recent C
ornell
study that says the choice in 2100 is between 2 billion people living
a
comfortable but not lavish life (achieved by a drastic population
reduction) or 12 billion "struggling in misery". And if you want to
allow 50% of the planet's surface for other life forms, you need to
achieve double that reduction (green line), to one billion people, the
level both Jim
Merkel and Bill
McKibben think we should strive for. That's only achievable, short
of coercion, by an average one child family worldwide for the next century.
The right chart shows that the increasing average footprint, driven
both by North American excess and the surging resource use of China's
billion plus people, will drive the aggregate human footprint up even
more sharply than aggregate population, from 37 billion acres today
(20% more than Earth's carrying capacity) to 210 billion acres in 2100
(six times Earth's carrying capacity). Now remember, these assumptions
are much closer to the wildly
optimistic assumptions of population levelling that the UN and other
global agencies optimistically hope for, than to the Malthusian
no-change projections that would see nearly double these numbers.
Nevertheless, train wreck ahead.
We simply have no choice. We must immediately and aggressively reduce our family
sizes worldwide, and we must
immediately and aggressively reduce per-capita resource consumption,
waste and footprint. That means we must confront religions that don't
actively encourage birth control and small families, and show those
religions to
be socially irresponsible. That means, too, we need to introduce ecological
taxation
measures to make excessive resource consumption and waste
prohibitively
expensive, and reward those who tread lightly on the Earth.
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New Scientist Technology - Bionic
suit offers wearers super-strength
New Scientist Technology - Bionic
suit offers wearers super-strength
04/12/2005 05:56 AMwww.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624945.800&feedId=online-news_r
ss20 .. Bionic suit offers wearers super-strength .. New
Scientist
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New Scientist Technology - Bionic suit
offers wearers super-strength
New Scientist Technology - Bionic suit
offers wearers super-strength
04/14/2005 10:31 AMSIL-Shoe-1.18
SIL-Shoe-1.18
06/10/2004 06:13 AMThe other shoe drops.
The other shoe drops.
05/04/2004 04:47 PM
The other shoe
drops. The L.A. Times releases details from Major General Antonio
M. Taguba's findings into prisoner abuse in Iraq, including evidence
that convinced him that a U.S. soldier had sex with an Iraqi female.
(Can we all agree that she didn't ask for it...?)
Shoe leather for the Gov
Shoe leather for the Gov
01/03/2004 05:53 PM It should rain when you canvass for a candidate. Not a downpour but
enough of a drizzle that your hair is plastered to your head and your
shirt never gets quite dry. And it should be cold. Glove cold. And the
first person you meet should definitely not agree with you. Easy
virtue isn't worth it. (Accidentally leaving your umbrella, hat, cell
phone and lunch at the local campaign headquarters is purely optional,
however. Sigh.) I'm home and dry now. My shoes are off and my feet are
up. I feel good that I did a little tiny bit...
Iraq In My Shoe
Iraq In My Shoe
04/14/2004 02:10 AMWe need to keep something straight: the Bush administration’s
adventures in Iraq have no connection to 9/11. On and on and on these
suck the same breath for no reason. The question nobody has the nerve
to ask is “Can you clearly explain, Mr. President, the explicit,
direct relationship between the ‘War on Terror’ and our
invasion and occupation of Iraq?” May I elaborate, Mr.
President? Everyone’s serious about responding to 9/11....
Shoe tune
Shoe tune
04/13/2005 02:50 PMCreepy, catchy, strange music for an Adidas commercial with Yeah Yeah
Yeahs singer Karen O.
Operation Shoe Fly
Operation Shoe Fly
06/16/2004 02:43 PM
Operation
Shoe Fly • From Afghanistan, Sgt Hook writes, "So my
esteemed friends of the blogosphere...I announce the beginning of
Operation Shoe Fly in an effort to shoe the children with no shoes on
their feet. If you can collect the shoes, used or new, boys' and
girls' (age 14 and under), and send them to me, my crewdogs and I will
fly them out to the Afghani kids who so desperately need them."
Have You Rebooted Your Shoe Lately?
Have You Rebooted Your Shoe Lately?
03/28/2005 06:00 AMFirst revealed
nearl
y a year ago, Adidas has finally
launched its
computerized running smart shoe, which will cost you a mere $250
and the constant nagging question of what will you do when it crashes
on you? The shoe is designed with a microprocessor that will
constantly measure the pounding you're giving the shoe and will try to
adjust the cushioning to protect your knees for another day. It still
seems like a fairly niche market -- but it could become much more
interesting if other devices learn to make use of the spare cycles in
your shoes. Think of it as bodily distributed computing.
Shoe on Other Foot Dept.
Shoe on Other Foot Dept.
01/06/2005 10:31 PMFormer Directors of Worldcom agreed to pay $18,000,000 of personal
funds to settle claims by defrauded investors. Coverage here. Once
upon a time I was the first angel investor in UUNET, which was
swallowed by MFS which was swallowed by Worldcom....
Sgt Hook: Operation Shoe Fly
Sgt Hook: Operation Shoe Fly
06/16/2004 10:17 AMSgt. Hook needs you. Go .. Operation Shoe Fly .. wants your
help
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Regenerative braking in a shoe
Regenerative braking in a shoe
04/12/2005 08:10 PM
"...this
effort has examined devices that can be built into a shoe, (where
excess energy is readily harvested) and used for generating electrical
power "parasitically" while walking."
Regenerative braking in a shoe for powering small personal
electronics, courtesy of MIT's Media Lab. With
video.
[
via Hack A
Day]
UK shoe dumping mystery
UK shoe dumping mystery
03/17/2005 03:56 AMDavid Pescovitz:
Pairs of shoes are mysteriously being dumped outside a
farmhouse in Lincolnshire, England. Since December, more than a dozen
have shown up on the side of the road, usually on Sunday. According to
the BBC, "some of the shoes are cheap, with price labels of £1.99
attached and some are more expensive designer brands."
The (Foster family who live nearby) have video footage,
which shows an elderly couple driving by in a green vehicle depositing
the shoes.
Mrs Foster said that although it was scary at first, she was rather
hoping some of the pairs might fit.
Lin
k (via Fortean
Times)
Designing a Smarter Shoe
Designing a Smarter Shoe
05/05/2004 09:28 PMAdidas's new shoe, named 1, is sleek and lightweight despite its
battery-powered sensor, microprocessor and electric motor.
Computer-driven shoe
Computer-driven shoe
04/02/2005 04:39 AMThe Province Apr 2 2005 8:03AM GMT
Space Invader shoe
Space Invader shoe
12/29/2004 04:49 AM
David Pescovitz:
Anonymous French guerilla artist
Invader surreptitiously installs
tile mosaics of classic video game characters in high-traffic spots
all over Paris and other cities around the globe. In fact, I can see
one from the window of my apartment! Now he's released a
limited-edition sneaker with a space invader character raised in the
tread, enabling the shoe to be used like a stamp. Each step in sand,
mud, water, paint, wet tar, etc., leaves an imprint, scoring you
points in the ongoing invasion.
Li
nk (via Cool Hunting)
5 Minte Shoe Shine
5 Minte Shoe Shine
04/06/2005 05:30 AM
Hot on the
heels of the 'wet shave' it's the five minute shoe shine. If the Shoe Fits... (Reuters)
If the Shoe Fits... (Reuters)
08/03/2004 09:23 AMReuters - A U.S. sportswear maker has designed
shoes that expand to fit a child's growing feet and is trying
them out on cost-conscious German shoppers, the company said
Tuesday.
Adidas creates a shoe that thinks on the
run
Adidas creates a shoe that thinks on the
run
05/16/2004 08:01 AMChicago Tribune May 16 2004 12:24PM GMT
Company Trots Out Computerized Shoe
Company Trots Out Computerized Shoe
03/27/2005 10:30 AMABCNEWS.com Mar 27 2005 2:12PM GMT
Waiting for Microsoft's CRM Shoe To Drop
Waiting for Microsoft's CRM Shoe To Drop
03/14/2003 01:28 AMA moribund economy, a stagnant CRM industry, an underpenetrated small
and mid-size market -- and poised for entry is a monolithic software
vendor that happens to be on just about every desktop already. Is the
perfect storm brewing in the CRM industry?
Another Shoe Drops at CIA (Los Angeles
Times)
Another Shoe Drops at CIA (Los Angeles
Times)
12/29/2004 06:12 AMLos Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The head of the CIA's analytic
division told her staff Tuesday that she was resigning, becoming the
latest high-level departure in an ongoing shake-up of the agency's
senior ranks by new director Porter J. Goss.
Facing South: The Other Shoe Will Drop
Facing South: The Other Shoe Will Drop
03/26/2005 05:36 AMThe Other Shoe Will
Drop
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CNN.com - Shoe plant workers get up to
$20,000 bonuses - Dec. 15, 2003
CNN.com - Shoe plant workers get up to
$20,000 bonuses - Dec. 15, 2003
12/16/2003 05:30 AMNice, feel-good story. Some workers in a shoe factory got $19k bonus
checks .. of the horrors of capitalism .. Good will toward
men
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John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Now That The
Other Shoe Has Dropped
John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Now That The
Other Shoe Has Dropped
04/30/2004 09:20 AMJohn Battelle's Searchblog: Now That The Other Shoe Has Dropped ..
Open Letter
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'Tennis-shoe glue' sticks circuits to
chips
'Tennis-shoe glue' sticks circuits to
chips
12/08/2003 04:36 AMZDNet UK Dec 8 2003 4:08AM ET
Shoe glue banned to stop sniffers
(Reuters)
Shoe glue banned to stop sniffers
(Reuters)
12/24/2004 01:13 PMReuters - State legislators have banned the sale of shoe glue in Rio
de Janeiro because too
many people were sniffing it in the crime-ridden Brazilian city.
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