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Sure, you loved those old games—but did you know Microsoft was really tricking you into learning how to use their system?

Fun Fact: Though Solitare, Minesweeper, Hearts and Freecell have unintentionally evolved into huge productivity killers in the last couple decades, they were actually developed as a stealthy computer education curriculum to teach or augment the user’s experience.

#microsoft #video games #user experience #user education

Thingsee One is the Raspberry Pi of the IoT (Internet of Things). Let’s connect the world, guys! Fund the kickstarter here.

PS - I’m mysteriously back just as mysteriously as I had left. I haven’t been far, but I’ve gathered a lot of intel to share with you guys. And S/O to Tumblr - looking good, you guys, and more user friendly than ever!

#iot #internet of things #hardware #wearables

iraffiruse

Technology then and now

cookienun

at first i thought it was the same number then I noticed it said GB and damn

camwyn

As one of the tech review magazines said a few years ago when the first 32 GB micro SD cards came out, “At last it is possible for a single human being to accidentally swallow all of the data collected by the Apollo Program.”

medusamori

now that is a review

#fuckyeah technology #the future is now #memory

think-progress

A couple is making roads out of solar panels, and they actually work!

#brilliant #ecofriendly #technology #fuckyeahtechnology #innovation

unconsumption

Three British companies have developed a 90% recyclable and reusable circuit board, whose components can be easily separated by soaking in hot water. Funded by the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board with a view to help industry conform to European electronic waste regulation, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), In2Tec and Gwent Electronic Materials have devised an adhesive that helps manufacturers take apart electronic circuit boards and reuse their components to make new components. They call it ReUse – Reusable, Unzippable, Sustainable Electronics.

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The result was a new adhesive and ink system, which allows the team to put components onto a thermoplastic substrate with a conductive adhesive and make a circuit. A substrate is a solid onto which another solid is applied and that solid adheres to the first. A thermoplastic is something quite pliable at high temperatures but cools down to a rigid solid. The thermoplastic substrate produced by the team can be recycled.

. (via New adhesive system makes a circuit board that is 90% recyclable | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional)

#brilliant #ecofriendly #technology #fuckyeahtechnology #innovation

This Start-Up Can Turn Your Sofa Into a Smartphone:

#awesome #fuckyeahtechnology #technology #invention

Digital content can never be moved, only copied.

Stefan Lorenz, on Quora

#nerdy #tech #facts #quora

I love my office desk setup.

#share your officespace #computer setup #desk setup #work #programming #software developers #programmers life

You can learn something beautiful every day.

I created this in QGIS today using the Voronoi Polygons function on there. Data reflect relative humidity in various geographies.

#qgis #gis #mapping #programming #voronoi #math

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http://gizmodo.com/beware-of-this-dangerously-convincing-google-docs-phish-1546278702?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

#PSA #security alert #google #scams

Linux is addictive.

#linux

The Ctrl-S Twitch

Anybody else ever find themselves ctrl-s'ing for no reason?

#questions #programmer #programmer problems

This is a language map of Costa Rica remixed with a map of radio antennas. Originally, I was using 1 icon per radio station. It was chaotic (there are 305 radio stations in that tiny little country alone). I decided to cluster the data, and rounded the radio station location point to the 100th decimal point longitude and latitude. When I threw the new generalized data into QGIS today, I was struck by how pretty the pattern was. (So I took a snapshot to share.) But I felt that the data was not being represented fairly in that manner, so I used data-defined rules to size the icons, and loved the results. Going to tinker with it a bit more and share with my client :)

#GIS #mapping #fun #infographic #costa rica

Robotics is the next big thing. Imagine how fun it's going to be programming add-on features for robots with various mechanical abilities like programming an Android app. It's enough to make my heart flutter. ^♥^

#robots #the next big thing #robotics #technology #fuck yeah technology