Technology: January 2013 Archives

What's Wrong With This Picture? « Ambiance

Via Dustbury. I'm reminded of the Red Dwarf novel Better Than Life.

"Matter is a corrective. Matter exerts a resistance, a counterforce, like wood to a carving knife or water to a ship's keel or air under an airplane's wings, that paradoxically enables us to get somewhere by making it more difficult. The Internet is a sensory deprivation tank.  It somehow has the exact specific gravity of a human brain, so that it cancels out the heavy, reminding tug of our bodies.  It deceives us that whatever we can imagine is not only possible, but already sufficiently existent without the salutary work and frustration that is matter's accursed blessing.  Our minds are crumbling like the bones of astronauts who have lived too long in weightlessness."

Interactive Coordinate Converter between WGS84 and ECEF

Converts between latitude, longitude, and altitude in meters relative to the WGS84 ellipsoid approximation of the shape of the earth and a Cartesian coordinate system with its origin at the center of the earth.

Five MIT Students Have Solved A Universally Annoying Problem - Business Insider

Bugged that you can't get the last bits of jelly out of the jar? Introducing LiquiGlide, "an edible, plant-based coating that can be placed on any surface, from glass to ceramics. Liquid-based products that encounter the surfaces will slip right off, whether it's ketchup in a bottle or rain on a jacket." Click the link to see videos of LiquiGlide at work.