Archive of March 2010

March 28

Revenge is a dish best served warm





09:55 PM
March 24

Mobile Market Share



"Overall, Apple's mobile devices are figured to account for 5 percent of all U.S. video game software revenue. "Controlling 5 percent revenue of a $10 billion industry in just a year and a half is significant," Flurry wrote. "From a market share perspective, console games lost ground to portable platforms and iPhone. While the downturn in the economy may have dampened sales of the more expensive console games category, there is no denying that iPhone has generated substantial revenue and entered strongly into a mature industry."" [Source]

12:29 AM
March 22

Obamacare - What, me worry?



08:26 PM
March 13

Abstinence



04:54 PM
March 10

Connect the dots

An incredible piece of pointillist art by Baptiste Debombourg using 35,000 staples, a wall, and 75 hours. And making fairly ingenious use of uniform lines, cross-hatching and depth in the process.







10:52 AM
March 8

Personalized Energy


Further to my January post Home is where the Batteries Are, below we have MIT Prof. Dan Nocera talking about "personalized energy." His key point is to shift our perspective on energy generation from one of centralization and infrastructural distribution using massive coal, nuclear or hydroelectric facilities, to a system of individual production and storage. Using a metaphor of how computes evolved from expensive mainframes to individual laptops, he extrapolated that the energy demands of 2050 can not possibly be served by massive centralized infrastructure. Instead, he offers up the idea of the "home as battery", both producing and storing the energy it will require. At the heart of his vision is a system that uses a novel means of splitting hydrogen from water using solar energy, allowing water to become the fuel of the future.

Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy from PopTech on Vimeo.

12:19 PM