Atlas: Het Lab
I’ve been very silent on my blog for a while but it’s time for a comeback. Anyway, this post will only interest Dutch readers or rather Dutch listeners. I now have a regular short feature on Atlas, a radio program by LLiNK on Radio 1. Atlas focusses on those who want to make our world better, generally speaking from an environmental standpoint. I have a short feature, called Het Lab, where we discuss some of the exciting eco-related developments that are taking place in labs world wide. Here’s yesterdays feature of Het Lab.
Bright Night 3
During the third Bright Night 3 on Friday the 8th of january I did my third Live Uitpakparty (Live unboxing party). It was great fun and as usual the audience flocked to gadgets for their personal handson experience. You can watch a compilation of the evening including interviews, with the audience and other speakers by clicking on the picture.
BNR radio Bright 25
Every year Bright Magazine publishes the Bright 25, a list the most important trends, innovations and gadgets as seen by the editors of Bright. Erwin van der Zande, Bright’s chief editor wasn’t available for a BNR radio interview so they let me loose to explain some of the choices listed in the Bright 25.
How hot is Copenhagen?
The Climate Scoreboard widget measures the results of the talks in Copenhagen and portrays its effect on future climate change in real-time. The Scoreboard is an initiative of Climate Interactive, a group that focuses on making understandable presentations of complex scientific issues and in particular the science of climate change. You can get live updates through Twitter
We can rebuild him — we have the technology
It looks like the bionically rebuild, crashed astronaut Steve Austin from the seventies tv-show the Six Million Dollar Man is not so farfetched after all. He’d probably be a bit more expensive today but nonetheless. Recently 51 year Peter Lane was one of the first people in the world outfitted with ‘bionic’ eyes. Peter Lane hasn’t seen the light in over thirty years and can now see outlines of objects such as doorways and furniture . He also has the ability to read though the reading is limited to small words. Cameras built into his glasses send the images to a processor worn on his belt where they are turned into an electronic signal. This signal is sent back to the glasses and transmitted wirelessly to a tiny receiver and electrode panel implanted on his retina. However, it’s still earlier days before the blind can see as well as people with healthy eyesight. Lane says the way he sees cars is as cotton wool but progress is definitely made. Bionic body replacement parts may become readily available sooner than you think. Head over to Wired for a great overview of bionic arms currently under development.
Car part art
I love devices and much of my Zen time is spend in my home machinist workshop fabricating tools so I can make more tools. No wonder I have a weakness for mechanical recycle art such as these beautiful ‘scrapped auto part’ sculptures made by Australian sculptor John Corbett. His work is currently on exhibition at the John Davies Gallery in Britain.
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