The other day I was listening to National Public Radio on my way home from work and they had a commentary piece on from Philosopher Alain de Botton about how the worlds architecture today is all the same no matter where you go. It really made me think, he’s right. Sure you have your staple [...]
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I live in the Detroit area and the only real benefit to that has been the North American Auto Show that happens once a year in January. At one poiont it was the biggest auto show in the world and may still be, I’m not really up on my car knowledge that much. But every [...]
It’s been just over two years since I first wrote about my thoughts on digital cameras. I figured I’d update that a little bit as a lot can happen in two years time, and has. For a year and a half now I’ve owned a Canon D300 digital SLR camera I bought used off ebay. [...]
The Apple iPhone
Posted in General on Jan 27th, 2007 Comments Off
Earlier this month Apple Inc. announced the iPhone at their 2007 Macworld keynote. This has been a long rumored product and after its announcement every tech site seemed to gravitate around it for the following week. Since then however many peoples heads have seemed to shrink back down to size and really weigh out [...]
Tonight I was browsing google (don’t remember what for)and I came across this article
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
which deals with the possiblity of robots eliminating 50% of American jobs by 2055. I have to admit I agree with the guy to some extent. This is not a new subject by any means. It’s been talked about for years and [...]
I started shooting photography back when I was in tenth grade. Previous to that I never really shot a still camera. I could probably count on my hands the number of times I took photos in my life before then. Some parents give their kids cameras and some kids just grabs peoples to use. I [...]
Typically I use this weblog as a way to present some new or different ideas. Or at least I have for the last so many entires. However for anyone who does check this site they’ll notice that I have changed the format in the last couple of days. Instead of being just a site about [...]
Have you ever played Laser tag? Imagine for a minute if we introduced some form of new display technology to the game. You put on a pair of what looks like sunglasses but are completely clear. The glasses have a wire going off of them connected to a small box clipped to your belt. This [...]
People who can’t think
Posted in General on Jun 20th, 2004 Comments Off
When I started roxics.com a couple years ago I never knew what to do with it. The word itself is the name of a character in a screenplay I’ve been writing for years. I bought the URL (roxics.com) as a way to reserve it for when I hoped to make the film so that it [...]
Imagine if you could do a 3d scan of various objects at a certain resolution. Say 1 megapixels (1 million pixels) per square centimeter. Then you took those various objects and placed them all in a 3d enviornment. You would end up with an enviornment that was several billion pixels in size. In order to [...]