Category Archives: Research

Ever wondered how the Internet travels across the Oceans? Check this interactive map

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Stefano

Travelling around the seven seas may seem too inadequate these days. The guys at TeleGeography charted the Internet undersea cable courses with incredible detail – and depicting the whole map as an Indiana Jones journal! Image source: TeleGeography According to … Continue reading →

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Enter Zooids and build your own little Robot Army !!!

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Stefano

Meet Zooids: a tiny robot-swarm with some pretty features. The project, by Mathieu Le Goc, Lawrence H Kim, Ali Parsaei, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Pierre Dragicevic and Sean Follmer seems amazing: This paper introduces swarm user interfaces, a new class of human-computer … Continue reading →

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Enter HIP – Human IP address: the Internet of Human Beings

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Stefano

A recent Forbes story has sparkled speculations about IP addresses being assigned to each and every human being. Besides the Science-Fiction scenario, it seems logical to assign to all living human beings an IP address hence bypassing any further IDs, … Continue reading →

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Latest National Geographic Magazine: “The age of disbelief” (about science)

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Stefano

Love National Geographic Magazine: March issue’s cover story is about disbelief, skepticism about science and doubt versus estabilished science. From medicine to space, from history to dinosaur, from evolution to global climate: skepticism is all around us and is, somehow … Continue reading →

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#Drones in the future (according to New York Magazine)

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Stefano

Aptly titled “Drones and everything after”, this long article by Benjamin Wallace-Wells featured in the latest issue of NYMag is an excellent compendium of ‘drone experiences‘ around the US and the world alike. Several real-world examples are given about how … Continue reading →

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Who would you ask to explain the Higgs Boson Particle (in 2 minutes)? Peter Higgs himself!

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Stefano

Ok, two minutes sounds too little time to explain something so complex as the Higgs Boson but this is a task fine for Peter Higgs himself. In this video [BBC], Higgs describes the particle and what it does in under … Continue reading →

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The Tablet Newspaper as seen in 1994

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Stefano

Knight Ridder (back then a media behemoth) produced a video that, back in 1994, depicts a tablet delivering news… We may still use computers to create information but we’ll use the tablet to interact with information. It’s an interesting piece … Continue reading →

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What if Wi-Fi was visible? An artist illustrates an unusual world

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Stefano

What if you could see Wi-Fi? Artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm has put together a very interesting set of images where Washington D.C. shows in full color Wi-Fi fields and rainbows. It’s an unusual approach and a very cool one: … Continue reading →

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Rastrack: where in the world are Raspberry PIs?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Stefano

Meet Rastrack: a Google Maps-based service where you can register for free and tell where you’re taking care of your Raspberry PI – geolocating it, and when it was shipped to you. Check the numbers, check how many people around … Continue reading →

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Google in the 60’s: here’s how it would look to Mad Men if they were googlin’ around

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Stefano

Austrian company Masswerk built a very compelling Google front-end: Google60. It looks like an fictional System 362 (not a real IBM System 360 – a historical mainframe) with a not-so fictional user interface that’s straight from the 60s. That’s exactly … Continue reading →

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