‘Technology & Industry’ Archives
Droid X. Android Ambushes IPad.
GOOGLE ANSWERS THE IPAD. RAISES IT ONE. Mister ScienceAintSoBad tried out the Droid X, Verizon's very latest Android phone. Which isn't easy. They're gone. Sold out. Why? Cause customers got the idea right away. Terrific app phone. ALMOST too large. Almost. Makes yer pocket look funny. It's so large (and fast and [...]
MORE ON THE “ROBOT JOB BOMB”
MRSASB: You're breaking my heart, man! Don't Do this! You're straying into political stuff where a real science guy has no business. Why is it YOUR concern which out-of-work losers get paid what? I wanna hear about which robots are smarter. Which robots are better dancers. Not INTERESTED in crying for society's cast outs. That another [...]
Where The Jobs Are: Robot Technicians, Robot Handlers..
Technology CREATES jobs, right? Unemployment's kinda high. Slow economy. To get through the rough spot, employers have been p-r-e-t-t-y creative. Every possible trick. Technology aplenty. Not that I'm worried. In Business Week, I read that robots create more jobs than they destroy. Robots, kiosks, voice recognition [...]
Gulf Spill: Ideas Bubble To The Surface
THROW A FEW IDEAS AT IT My sweet wife can't look at the photos of gooey pelicans. "I'd like to grab the guys behind this and stuff THEIR heads in a barrel of oil". My sweet wife. PLEASE don't hate MISTERScienceAintSoBad for saying this, but there's good. You're NUTS, Mister SASB. Name one good thing. Sure. It's a GOOD [...]
Japan Wins Moon Race.
JAPAN WINS MOON RACE. Japan just revealed some of its plans for space exploration including the amazing hope of landing a robot explorer on the moon by 2015 and having an entire base of robots by 2020. - fastcompany.com Email from OldTrekie5: Jesus! The friggin' Space Shuttle's shutting down and we don't have squat to replace it. Are you [...]
The Gulf Spill And Oil Eating Microbes
A BAD THING If you're just getting over a coma, first of all, welcome back. You will be the last to hear this but, last month, a large oil drilling platform, leased to British Petroleum, exploded and sank, releasing hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf Of Mexico. As of now, the oil's still flowing. You're right. [...]
UNBREAKING STUFF
JUNKIFIED The year is 2015. Discarded cell phones cover everything. The "layer" varies in thickness from a few inches to as much as three feet. Mostly, it consists of iPhones, IPads, ITouches, and IPods. Newer layers have Android stuff. Apple cultists fight against calling it the ICrap layer. Too disrespectful. Look what [...]
Teen Angst: Cure For Acne? Cure For Backpacks?
YOUNG RESEARCHER WITH ACNE CURE We were once beautiful. Even Fink. Once, we were healthy. supple and unblemished. Except for the nasty zits which would lie dormant until a few days before something important like a first date, a prom, or a bar mitzvah when they would BURST into glorious Technicolor blotches, humiliating and depressing [...]
My Blog’s 100th Anniversary & A Plug-in Domestic
CENTURY MARK A hundred posts ago, in the first article on this blog, I said: Science has gotten beaten up in the past few years. It’s not just that it’s been starved for funds; there’s the feeling that it’s a crappy pursuit – opaque, dangerous, and inconsistent with the things that real people care about. I hope, with this [...]
Shoot! What A Smelly Landfill!
CANONIZING AN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM Several cities are toying with changing their names to Google to see if that'll land 'em ultrafast Internet. Bejing, the Capital of China isn't one of them. But its good name IS being sullied by big piles of smelly garbage. Bejingers toss out roughly 18,000 tons of garbage each day. It's out of space [...]
