Mar 212015
Mar 072015
This week China’s probably pretty pissed that India’s going to add Japanese bullet-train tech to cart, which is ironic since Chinese bullet train tech IS Japanese (ZING!), it’s extra confirmed that Apple’s going to finance Japan Display’s new factory, and lastly, you may insert a lame pun here about how consistently under-performing & money-losing Sharp is anything but. Read me!
Mar 012015
Mar 012015
Feb 282015
“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP”
February 28, 2015
Sci-Fi, Star Trek, Technology, Technology & Art, Technology & Culture, Technology & Entertainment
Feb 212015
This week we find out that Apple is likely to invest in Japan Display, the bastard child of Sony’s, Toshiba’s, and Hitachi’s floppy failed display businesses that, post-amputation, did a Wonder Triplets: ACTIVATE! move into profitability, and, entirely kinda unrelated, the de-displayed Hitachi has unveiled the world’s most powerful microscope and Sony’s commissioned it to look for their fiscal 2014 profit margin!
February 21, 2015
Apple, Asia, Here First or Best Here, Hitachi, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japanese Technology from the Future Friday, Japan「日本」, Mobile, Pure Science, Smartphone, Sony, Technology
Feb 162015
Next to Team SCHAFT’s new Google overlords withdrawing them from further competition, the poor showing of NASA’s Valkyrie robot might have seemed the DRC Trials’s biggest disappointment, but it’s nowhere near that simple: NASA JSC and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) are keeping the flame alive, and by flame we’re talking like…nuclear blow-torch.
February 16, 2015
Boston Dynamics, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, Here First or Best Here, Military Robotics, NASA, NASA JPL, NASA JSC, Robonaut, Robot, Robot Space Torso, Robots in Space, Space Technology, Technology