This is a really cool innovation – researchers printed a frequency filter onto a piece of origami, and found a folding technique that allows it to morph from one frequency blocker to another frequency blocker depending on how much you ‘pull out’ or ‘flatten’ the folded origami structure. The result is a portable, light-weight frequency… Read More »
Unlike electric cars, which are simply inconvenient because they take forever to charge, electric airplanes typically have longer stop-overs to let passengers off, cleaning crews on, and new passengers on board. As a result, electric airplanes may be a much more interesting way to ‘greenify’ one of the largest sources of CO2 emissions. That is,… Read More »
Commissioned by the UK government, the recently published Furman Review calls for unlocking digital competition. Ever feel frustrated by the stranglehold that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other major players have on the online market? This lack of choice and competition is exactly what the report attempts to address. Most importantly, it proposes creating a ‘digital… Read More »
Are you a Microsoft SQL Server operator? And use customer names as database names? If so, then this article might have a nasty surprise for you. It turns out that SQL Server’s telemetry service sends a lot of data back to Microsoft, including database names – and you apparently can’t turn it off. If those… Read More »
This new pill may deliver insulin orally for diabetes (Type I) patients in the future, replacing injections. It’s a rather innovative concept – a biodegradable pill that aligns itself correctly and injects a needle made of insulin to deliver the dose in measured form. MIT also has a cool video on their press release explaining… Read More »
Websites increasingly are mobile optimized, and interactive web content is so rich that it takes on a very app-like feel. Likewise, developing interactive apps as frontends to web-based servers is basically nothing more than a lot of programming effort to redo interactive web apps within a native interface (which is a big pain in the… Read More »