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Dr. Beak From Rome and the Black Plague, or why having a surgical mask might be handy
This 1656 woodcut (see photo) depicts the plague doctor “Dr. Beak from Rome” (“Doktor Schnabel von Rom”). His bird mask was stuffed with straw, which served as a crude air filter. Medieval artists alternated lampooned him (as here) and later celebrated him as scientific and practical methods of plague control slowly proved themselves over the more superstitious practices of that era. When we got into this we were thinking about how smart homes (and smarter air purification) could reduce dust buildup in our more dusty urban areas (like urban California, Europe, and Asia). While it was obvious there was a lot of dust buildup on furniture, we didn’t realize just how badly air quality fluctuated from day-to-day here. Bird Flu or just poor air quality Earlier this week one of our staff members saw someone walking the streets of Los Angeles with a surgical mask on. He appeared to be from a part of Asia that had experience with bird flu, and wearing surgical masks on the street is more culturally accept there than here.… Read the restThe ancient link between fashion and technology
This article was original published by Acculation on another site. Is there a utilitarian purpose to fashion? Fashion is economically very important in the media and advertising industries for reasons not well understood, at least to the average tech engineer. In the smartphone and wearables area, the two fields are increasingly colliding. Is there an ancient link between technology and fashion? Humans love technology, but we were also very dependent on it very early on. Was fashion initially a way of identifying humans visually over long distances? Was it, in the sense, an early form of technology? Tech and Fashion: Ancient History? Our ancestors have been using tools for well over a million years. For most of that time, however, they had brains about half the size that we do currently. Anatomically modern humans that resembled us physically (and had our size brains) first appeared around 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.… Read the restA steampunk smartwatch?
This article was original published by Acculation on another site. Hyetis Crossbow: smartwatch from outer space? The Hyetis Crossbow has just gone on presale at this writing, and we’re sure this will hybrid smartwatch combined with traditional mechanical watch will peak the interest of some of our readers. We’ve previously written about the coming smartwatch revolution. Swiss watchmakers, of course, feel the need to modernize. Computer are getting smaller thanks to Moore’s law. That means that your future smartwatch will eventually be as powerful as today’s desktops (and have killers apps to boot). Every major manufacturing (Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Google) has announced plans to come out with one. A smartwatch is infinitely more practical, often lighter, and tells time much better than one of these “traditional” Swiss automatic chronometers. (Which are 1930s technology, cost hundreds or thousands more than a smartwatch, don’t have atomic/network time, and are heavy.) John Biggs of Tech Crunch referred to the Hyetis as the “smart watch from outer space.” … Read the restRepurposing that dead weight on your wrist
This article was originally published by Acculation on another site. The coming smartwatch revolution They say that, thanks to smartphones, no one under age thirty still wears a watch. Who needs a heavy weight on your wrist when your smartphone can give you time? Watches are about to come back in a major way, however. Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and Google have all announced smartwatches. (And there’s plenty of existing entrants that are either smart watches or can be worn like one, like the Pebble and FitBit One, which are flying off the shelves at big box stores even if the salespeople haven’t figured quite figured out the difference between a smartwatch and a sportswatch.) Computers are getting smaller as a consequence of Moore’s Law, and new form factors are needed. Your smartwatch will be more powerful than today’s desktops. And corporate giants are about to spend millions to capture what they believe is a $300 billion space.… Read the restRecent Comments
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