There’s an oil-change industry?! I just thought everyone would buy the oil, oil filters and change it themselves. I know my dad always has! (ok, I guess it was from the Onion)
Quiet week ahead I’ll be attending various presentations and open-house session next week at MIT Media Lab and then taking a few days off. Updates to this weblog will be quite infrequent until I’m back. I’ll also be attending a workshop on “Emergent Engineering” at the Center for Bits and Atoms. Sounds very interesting.
The wonders of centralised music distribution Here’s a site which (I believe) was setup by (or at least, on behalf of) the music industry to promote legal distribution of music online. It clearly shows that faced with the considerable demand for free music, centralised systems fall part. Current online distribution sites which have been setup [...]
The Human Network As reported by Slashdot, some Japanese researchers have figured out how to get a 10Mb/sec connection between two devices via a handshake. A real handshake. Between two human hands. Network handshaking will never be the same again.
User’s prefer Nokia over Ericsson Wow! What a revelation. And it took research to actually figure this out? Ericsson are known for producing the worst user interfaces on mobile phones (initially due to their insistence on using 2 line screens). Motorola aren’t far behind though.
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