Archive for April, 2007
Donkey Kong climbs E2 - power of the focused group
21 April 2007I ran across this somewhere in my daily web visits. It is a story of how a small group of UCSC students (10) designed , planned and build a 4 story art pieces honoring the classic computer games Donkey Kong using nothing but some perspiration and a whole slew of post-it notes(~6,400). […]
7 Links - Enjoy the disconnection
18 April 2007Here a a couple of interesting links.
Scientists at NIST show DNA wrapped SWCNT of 200nm or less enter ex-vitro lung cells where longer ones don’t. Not sure if this is like saying 200nm DNA stands enter lung cells, while longer DNA stands don’t? Another confusion in the the debate on the safety of “nanomaterials”. How […]
Ideation: List Combination
15 April 2007I just made a post recently about Glowing Bacteria and how it is a good example of “convergence problem solving”. Basically where you are leveraging advances in adjacent fields with your core piece or expertise of technology to really do something beyond the scope of any of the individual pieces you are […]
Glowing Bacteria
15 April 2007
The original article for this post was actually carried by the BBC News a while back, but I thouht it was worth some
discussion here.
The news announcement in question talks about some work done by Steve Rimmer’s research group at the University of Sheffield. Their research is basically about how to generate lumiscence when […]
ReBlog: Post on TrendHunter
5 April 2007Guy Kawasaki has a good post on TrendHunter Magazine (warning, some content not suitable for work on there). Guy’s post gives some great examples. Also look at the Science category and the Art and Design Category. This is a mix of the weird and strange mixed with the […]