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The MDI AirCar prototype is a toy I want. (Full article at Edmunds.com.)
It runs on compressed air. If you have a renewable source for compressing the air (eg. hydro or wind turbines), it is a truly zero-emission vehicle. It has a 180cc, two-cylinder engine that runs on compressed air.
You can see the air cylinders underneath . . . → Read More: want aircar For the next three weeks, I have to friends and colleagues here in town. We’re busy hacking away, laying some foundations for the “next steps” in the work that we do surrounding concurrent and parallel programming languages. It does mean that we have a very full house, but on the flip side, we’re eating well (everyone likes . . . → Read More: hacking Twenty years ago, CNC machining was a black art. CAD-driven solutions were expensive, and program-at-the-machine was just becoming available. My first experiences with this technology were with my father’s 1986 Hitachi Seiki CNC lathe with Fanuc 5T control. It had a punched tape reader, and editing (once a program was loaded into memory) was on a . . . → Read More: manufacturing for the little guy OLPC Startup 5 Easy Steps View more OpenOffice presentations from gueste596c5.
In two weeks, I’ll be giving a talk (along with Christian Jacbosen) at USENIX ’09 entitled Towards Designing Usable Languages. We’re excited about the talk, and it should be very, very exciting. I believe the talk will be on-line when we’re done, so I’ll make sure to point to it. If you’re in the San Diego . . . → Read More: invited talk |
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