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Life Imitates Art #983745345367: The Wallscreen

One of the fictional technologies we imaged for In the Shadow of Ares is the “wallscreen”, a wallpaper-like display of practically unlimited extent which interacts with the characters’ mobile agents and other computing systems. In the scene where this technology is introduced, Amber’s mother is playing an ambience video loop of a tropical beach, which […]

June 16th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Entertainment, In the Shadow of Ares, Science Fiction, Useful Technology, Writing | Comments are closed

Nook vs. Kindle

I bought a Kindle back in September as a means of test-driving the e-book version of In the Shadow of Ares, mainly because I hadn’t thought much beyond Amazon when we decided to go the electronic route. I was aware that Barnes & Noble and Borders each had their own e-readers, but Kindle seemed to […]

January 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Entertainment, Useful Technology | Comments are closed

Christmas Comes Early, Part I

Part of the reason that posting on MarsBlog has been so lackluster over the past year is that my other project, People’s Press Collective, has been claiming nearly all of my time outside of work. Since I live about forty minutes from downtown Denver, and end up down there for events 2-3 nights a week, […]

December 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Meta, Miscellaneous, Useful Technology | Comments are closed

One Good Use for ISS

Whatever else good eventually comes out of the ISS, demonstrating VASIMR — and then using it to routinely reboost the station — might just be its best sci/tech achievement.

[h/t: Instapundit]

October 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Rocket Science, Space Technology, Useful Technology | Comments are closed

Two Tales of Technological Evolution

A trip to a slowly disappearing Borders bookstore, and a trip to a cutting-edge dentist. […]

May 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Economics, Useful Technology | Comments are closed