Tuesday, February 12, 2013

"digital" watch

Sure you can get yourself a nice fancy wrist watch, but the the new "connected" watches like pebble, and i'm are very cool as well.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Find the Gorilla

This is the famous experiment by Christopher Chabris related to your ability to pay attention to more thanone thing.
 
On that note, Alix Spiegel has a piece in NPR showing how even Radiologists, who specialize in seeing things in images that most people could not identify, still miss seeing the gorilla hiding in plain sight.

Constitution-Free Zone

Wired and ArsTechnica has write ups on how the Department of Homeland Security has rights to stop, question, and detain anyone within 100 miles of the borders of the country.  (that includes just about every major city in the country.)