An intriguing upgrade for classic Casio LCD wristwatches. A motherboard replacement that allows for customisable watch faces and features like temperature tracking. It's open source and easily hackable. An alternative to the modern smartwatch.
If you're feeling confused about the recent AI hype and would like to understand how large language models (most AI are LLMs) work, this presentation is one of the clearest I've watched. It's an hour long, so grab a coffee.
Exactly what the title says, with gems like "The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t".
New research shows that sweat has the potential to extract chemical additives from synthetics that are contained in sports technical clothing. We often worry about chemicals in food, but they could infiltrate our bodies in other ways.
It's nothing new if you've ever taken a step back, but this is a well written perspective on the issue.
We live in a mega-scale corporate capitalist economy, and in such a setting technology is never used to save time. It’s used to speed up production and consumption in order to expand the system. The basic rule is this: technology doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster and more crammed with stuff.
If you've been around long enough, you've probably seen the Strandbeests of Theo Jansen. Wind-powered kinetic animal-like sculptures that trek across the beaches. He's still at it, now chaining them together.
