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On The NeuroSky Mindset
This is a very cool piece of $99 technology. It’s an electrode that sits on your forehead and detects thoughts/emotions. They’re trying to figure out how to scale this business. (Investment as of June was ~$20 million.) Their internal ideas, … Continue reading
Edible Schoolyard Is Pretty Amazing
This is the New Orleans version. ‘Seeded’ with $1 million: A third of an acre. A composting and worm composting (vermiculture) station, an outdoor classroom with green living roof and native plants, a wetlands area, citrus grove, row crops, and … Continue reading
Imagining Climate Change Ravaged London
These are an amazing set of illustrations. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
DoD Energy = Sohbet Karbuz
DoD used 375,000 barrels of fuel per day in FY2009. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Cheap Visual Bioinfo Sensor
Couple cool uses for this. Biodefense platforms for a community. Flip side, spying on workerbees for a corporation. So far, graduate student Ming-Zher Poh has demonstrated that the system can indeed extract accurate pulse measurements from ordinary low-resolution webcam imagery. … Continue reading