One thing that science fiction has taught us is that robots are cool… at least until they take over the world. But some robots are cooler than others. I had the opportunity recently to visit Intuitive Surgical with my alumni group from RPI. Intuitive Surgical is located here in Silicon Valley. They make surgical robots. ...

I have been trying to figure out what the video setup of the living room of the future is (or at least of my future) and a new discovery on ABC.com makes me wonder if it is time to ditch my television completely. But let’s back up a bit first. My current setup did not ...

The world has a lot of problems. One of the leading causes of illness is diseases that come from contaminated water supplies. Even if a village has a well, they cannot always afford the fuel to run a pump to pump up the water. The brilliant people at PlayPumps.org have created a pump that is ...

SciFi.com’s Dvice blog had news about a new railgun the navy has. I find myself discourage that we continue to find more ways to kill each other and yet I must admit that the guy in me also has the reaction of “13,000 miles per hour, 10 megajoules, cool”! Sue me, it’s the testosterone. Just ...

MacWorld is in San Francisco this week and I had a chance to go up for a Geek Brief meetup this evening. It is on days like today that I appreciate that I have an EVDO card for my laptop. For those of you not familiar with EVDO it gives me an internet connection through ...

The new 2Gb Eye-Fi secure digital memory card, like memory cards for your digital camera, can hold your pictures. That is not too surprising. The surprising part of the Eye-Fi is that it won’t just store your digital masterpieces but will share them. When you first get the Eye-Fi you program the card with your ...

I missed this episode captured on tape from the old Newton days of when 4000 Newton modems arrived at Apple and the engineers set them up like dominos. It was fun for me to recognize some of the faces in this video. Chris “Newton Mailman” Christensen

Abibliophobia (noun) Definition: The morbid fear of running out of reading material. This was my word of the day today from Dictionary.com and when I saw it I suddenly had insight into Amazon’s new book reader the Kindle. I may simply not be the target market of the Kindle, nor for that matter all the ...

Here is my review of the new Sanyo Xacti VPC-E1 6MP Waterproof MPEG4 Camcorder which I recently purchased for use on my upcoming cruise.

I won’t be taking my own kayak on my upcoming trip to the Caribbean, but if I was I would be interested in taking this transparent kayak. Why struggle with other tourists for the best seat on a glass-bottomed boat when you could explore on your own in a small boat made entirely of glass? ...