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Machine Over Man

By David W. Boles on July 28, 2009 9:33 AM | 2 Comments

We love a good "The Robots Are Coming" story and we always get a thrill as we contemplate the idea that one day our toaster will turn against us and brown us instead of our daily bread, but when the Big Thinkers get together to warn each other about machines that can think on their own and react without us, we begin to pee our pants a wee bit.

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The Lipreading Computer that Couldn't

By David W. Boles on April 27, 2009 6:24 AM | 4 Comments

The internet community is all agog over new of a "lipreading computer" that can "read" many different languages.

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at&t 3G Quicksilver Modem Review

By David W. Boles on March 27, 2009 11:18 AM | 4 Comments

I'm not crazy about at&t as a cellular provider. Their 3G network is awful and slow and shattered -- but, I have an iPhone and I have a 3G data plan with at&t as well -- so I'm stuck with the service in deulling, two-year, pops. I used to own the Option GT Ultra Express 3G modem on the at&t network, but my new MacBook does not have a 3/4 Express slot; I needed to upgrade to a USB modem for 3G connectivity. I decided to get the new Quicksilver 3G USB 2.0 modem from at&t.

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The Delicious Apple LED Cinema Display 24 Review

By David W. Boles on March 16, 2009 9:45 AM | 6 Comments

For the past decade, I have relied exclusively on laptops for my writing and private life. It wasn't until I recently purchased my first unibody MacBook that I saw the need and felt the justification to splurge for the 24-inch Apple LED Cinema Display. As you can see in the image below, my office now has the delicious 24-inch Apple display in use as well as my MacBook's display at the same time as both displays become the canvas for a single, virtual desktop as science and beauty become one!

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Loving the Machine Aesthetic

By David W. Boles on December 12, 2008 10:06 AM | No Comments

Le Corbusier was one of the greatest architects of the Twentieth Century. He believed houses were machines and his early industrialization of building homes as metrics of functionality -- instead of as just basic shelter -- forever changed the way we consider both Art and science today.

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The 24-Hour Woman

By David W. Boles on December 11, 2008 7:52 AM | No Comments

Would you want to invent a 24-hour woman? Would you mind molding your future wife out of silicone and wires? Le Trung found his fantasy woman in his hands built of bits of steel and a bucket of screws.

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