Category: Technology

Putting one’s finger into a table saw blade

| May 12, 2013 | Reply

Ten people per day lose their fingers in table saw accidents. It this invention goes into production, that number will decrease. Check out this vivid demonstration.

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Ressurrecting the F1 rocket

| April 26, 2013 | Reply

Wired has published an article that ties the present space program to the highly successful Apollo program many decades ago. We might be on the verge of recreating the F1 rocket engine. Lots of amazing facts and figures here:

There has never been anything like the Saturn V, the launch vehicle that powered the United States past the Soviet Union to a series of manned lunar landings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The rocket redefined “massive,” standing 110 metres in height and producing a ludicrous 34 meganewtons of thrust from the five monstrous, kerosene-gulping Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engines that made up its first stage.

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Bridge halves try to kiss

| March 7, 2013 | 2 Replies

I hiked through some mud in north St. Louis this afternoon to capture this photo of the new Interstate 70 Bridge, which is almost spanning the Mississippi River. Due to open in 2014.

[caption id="attachment_24814" align="aligncenter" width="550"]Image by Erich Vieth Image by Erich Vieth[/caption]
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Look what was filmed with a green screen

| February 24, 2013 | 1 Reply

Eye-opening 4-minute video from Stargate Studios.

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1992: The future of computers per Bill Gates

| January 30, 2013 | 1 Reply

Back in 1992, Microsoft was still a new company, and Tom Brokaw sat down with 35 year old Bill Gates, who discussed the future, including the advent of “electronic mail.” Follow up interview here.

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Human powered helicopter

| November 13, 2012 | Reply

I didn’t know know that human powered helicoptering was possible at all until I saw this video. This high-tech machine is 100 feet across, and weighs only 80 pounds. Really impressive stuff, even though the team hasn’t quite won the Sikorsky Prize:

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Need to buy a typewriter?

| August 10, 2012 | 1 Reply

Tonight I was at OfficeMax, buying some back to school supplies with my daughters. I was surprised to see that there is still a typewriter section at the store. There are actually two models to choose from.

This is going to sound like an “old man” story, but when I started practicing law 30 years ago, the firm of 45 lawyers had no computers. Every secretary worked 0n an electric typewriter. Even in 1990, when I brought my own computer to my law firm, people were wondering why an attorney would have a computer. Now I work at a firm with 14 attorneys, and every attorney has a computer–there is one typewriter (for forms and labels). It makes you wonder, at this rate of change, whether anyone has the ability to predict how the world will look in ten more years.

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Terrifying landing on Mars scheduled for Monday morning

| August 4, 2012 | Reply

The seven minutes of terror will begin very early Monday morning. According to Boston Herald:

Touchdown was set for 10:31 p.m. PDT. NASA warned that spotty communication during landing could delay confirmation for several hours or even days.

Here’s more on this daunting technological feat:

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Photography at one trillion frames per second

| August 3, 2012 | Reply

Ramesh Raskar’s team at MIT has taken extraordinary images at the rate of one trillion frames per second. Not only are his images stunning, but this technology has some real life applications.

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