Friday, February 29, 2008

Saving memories


Don't want to lose those precious holiday pictures, home videos, and all your other data? Here's my occasional update on data storage technology, and, this time around, we look at the small-but-mighty 2.5 inch hard drives.

If you're looking for MEGAbyte, the store mentioned in my column, their site is here.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Ocean power and random napkins


Make electricity from waves, tides, or currents? That's the topic for the Feb. 22 column...

A company called Verdant Power has some cool information and photos on their site; I took this photo from their site.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto


We take a respite from weighty topics today, and ponder the latest kink in an old chain: visions of robots that are human, all-too-human in today's Tribune.

Here is the referenced article.


Photo from the Drudge Report.