News on the meat, medical, and electro-communications fronts: “Mbps Experimental Acoustic Through-Tissue Communications: MEAT-COMMS,” Andrew Singer, Michael Oelze, and Anthony Podkowa, arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05269 (2016). The authors, at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, report: “This paper describes experimental transmission of digital communication signals through samples of real pork tissue and beef liver, achieving […]
Month: April 2016
Introducing the “Visual Muzzle” (new patent)
A new patent from inventor Yee Chong Leung of Shatin, Hong Kong provides a warm cap for a pet (say, for example a dog) – but its key feature is that it also operates as an electronic ‘Visual Muzzle’. Wearing the cap, the pet is obliged to look though goggles made of smart glass or […]
An Informative Title: An Optional Subtitle (and all the rest)
If you are a human or robot who or that wishes to interact, in a literary way, with other humans or robots, you may begin by drawing a blank. Someone or something has anticipated your situation, and prepared a literary document that may or may not be helpful. This is how that document begins: An Informative Title: […]
When drone met pork
A project at Aalborg University, in Denmark, observed what happens when a drone’s whirling propeller collides with a hunk of pork. This video captures the collision, showing it in slowed-down motion: Kelsey D. Atherton wrote about this, for Popular Science magazine. BONUS: Here’s video of an unplanned experiment, by a different research team, with a drone […]