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gippgig

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Apr 6, 2014, 1:14:17 AM4/6/14
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Bobby Baum

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Apr 6, 2014, 1:36:26 AM4/6/14
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Oops, that should be
www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229634.600-permanent-tattoos-inked-by-hacked-3d-printer.html

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shawn wilson

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Apr 7, 2014, 3:25:03 AM4/7/14
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"The hardest part is ensuring the skin is kept taut and flat."  But if you can constantly measure distance and what's been drawn, this should be more accurate than a human. It might even be less painful too.

I wonder if it would also be possible to make a 3d tat by moderating depth and color.

Oh and you could setup a vending machine tattoo parlor - select an image, pay, place part in, go.

Bobby Baum

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Jun 2, 2014, 3:02:07 AM6/2/14
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Next: The internet-enabled toilet. Consumer Reports (June issue page
30) recommended against the Pentagon-budget-class Lixil Satis smart
toilet ($5,685), pointing out that - you guessed it - it's been hacked
(the PIN is 0000 - 0000ps!), & they didn't think much of the idea in
the first place.

Bobby Baum

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Sep 1, 2014, 6:32:17 PM9/1/14
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The GPS-equipped rock:
www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=300

pste...@gwi.net

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Sep 1, 2014, 8:11:30 PM9/1/14
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A variant of the old ideas of being a rolling stone: being a skidding stone.

 

I thought that was pretty cool.

 

That Internet-enabled toilet -- I presume it does not provide for upload to the Cloud.  (ducks, paws about for umbrella)

gippgig

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Bobby Baum

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Nov 29, 2014, 1:09:38 AM11/29/14
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The air umbrella
www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2869

Bobby Baum

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Dec 2, 2014, 8:41:50 PM12/2/14
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www.solardaily.com/reports/Blu_ray_disc_can_be_used_to_improve_solar_cell_performance_999.html

gippgig

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Feb 28, 2015, 1:50:27 AM2/28/15
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Constraints on the universe as a numerical simulation
Eur. Phys. J. A Vol. 50 p. 148 doi: 10.1140/epja/i2014-14148-0

gippgig

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May 31, 2015, 10:28:19 PM5/31/15
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condew HacDC

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May 31, 2015, 11:19:26 PM5/31/15
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Glad to see the Chinese are spending the wealth they drain from the world on important stuff humanity needs, like a Starship Enterprise shaped building.

But elsewhere on the same page, Ross Ulbricht "Silk Road mastermind gets life in prison for drug, conspiracy crimes"

And the Hola service that lets you appear to a website as coming from another country is also a bot net offering service like Tor, and you may be the exit node: "You joined a botnet if you use this VPN service"


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gippgig

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Bobby Baum

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Aug 10, 2015, 4:48:35 AM8/10/15
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A digital pregnancy test, advertized in this week's Walgreens flyer (p. 14).

gippgig

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Sep 9, 2015, 1:33:36 AM9/9/15
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Kevin Cole

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Jan 9, 2016, 8:23:43 AM1/9/16
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On Jan 9, 2016 01:04, "gippgig" <gip...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Gum Sensor: A Stretchable, Wearable, and Foldable Sensor Based on Carbon Nanotube/Chewing Gum Membrane
> ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7 26195 doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b08276

I liked my subject line better. ;-)

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> Chewing gum used as host material for new stretchable sensor — works even when strained 530-percent
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> http://www.electronicproducts.com/Sensors_and_Transducers/Sensors/Chewing_gum_used_as_host_material_for_new_stretchable_sensor_works_even_when_strained_530_percent.aspx

gippgig

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Apr 9, 2016, 2:37:07 AM4/9/16
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gippgig

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May 4, 2016, 4:22:33 PM5/4/16
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A disclaimer for a $10 back in store credit on a $25 purchase offer at KMart excludes fraud, abuse, and... "unintended virality".

gippgig

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May 5, 2016, 10:51:47 AM5/5/16
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///  By cranking out as many patentable concepts as possible and posting them online, he wants to make it harder for people to patent ideas that are trivial or uninventive.  ///

 

Nice performance art project.  I guess I wonder about its practicality -- how usable would it be, e.g., in actually finding (trivial) prior art it generates?  How searchable are its results?  That's a lot of the problem with issuance of patents for things already documented in the public domain, isn't it?

 

Some things that are trivial to name are also not at all trivial to realize.

 

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Elliot Williams

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May 6, 2016, 7:02:22 AM5/6/16
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I wrote this up after reading it on New Scientist, and two former patent examiners and a lawyer all weighed in. 

http://hackaday.com/2016/04/21/all-prior-art/ 

It seems to hang on enablement. 

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2164.html 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufficiency_of_disclosure

In short, would the robot's description enable someone to build the device or not.  So I think we're back to performance art.  :)

Bobby Baum

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Dec 8, 2016, 1:53:54 AM12/8/16
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The Bluetooth toothbrush (Oral-B Bluetooth Precision 7000 Rechargeable
Electric Toothbrush)

gippgig

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Jun 29, 2017, 5:16:46 PM6/29/17
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A live action version of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (9PM July 9 at the Lincoln Theater in D.C. - www.thelincolcdc.com)

gippgig

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Bobby Baum

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CRISPR-Cas encoding of a digital movie into the genomes of a
population of living bacteria
doi: 10.1038/nature23017

gippgig

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lewlking

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lewlking

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Aug 26, 2017, 10:17:49 PM8/26/17
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All Prior Art needs to be combined with a program that generates images from text:

gippgig

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Feb 19, 2018, 4:48:20 PM2/19/18
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Spraying spiders with graphene or carbon nanotubes made their silk over 3 times stronger & 10 times tougher (& it's extremely strong & tough to start with).
arxiv.org/pdf/1504.06751.pdf
Is the future of 3D printing armies of remotely-controlled spiders? (As I recall, remote control of insects (cockroaches) has already been demonstrated.)

Nic S

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Alberto Gaitan

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Feb 20, 2018, 7:40:46 AM2/20/18
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I remember these goats! Wonder how they fared in the intervening years.



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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:48 PM, gippgig <gip...@gmail.com> wrote:
Spraying spiders with graphene or carbon nanotubes made their silk over 3 times stronger & 10 times tougher (& it's extremely strong & tough to start with).
arxiv.org/pdf/1504.06751.pdf
Is the future of 3D printing armies of remotely-controlled spiders? (As I recall, remote control of insects (cockroaches) has already been demonstrated.)

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Kevin Cole

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Feb 20, 2018, 8:30:50 AM2/20/18
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I also remember the news o the spider-goats but it always conjures up
memories of Homer Simpson singing "Spider Pig, Spider Pig"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BARjPuUN36Y

gippgig

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A computer game where players try to create fake news
phys.org/news/2018-02-game-vaccinates-fake-news.html

Ben Carr

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Feb 22, 2018, 10:30:03 PM2/22/18
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 6:54 PM, gippgig <gip...@gmail.com> wrote:
A computer game where players try to create fake news
phys.org/news/2018-02-game-vaccinates-fake-news.html

gippgig

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Mar 14, 2019, 10:56:46 PM3/14/19
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Lightsaber dueling, recognized as a sport by the fencing federation in France.

gippgig

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Oct 22, 2019, 2:47:59 AM10/22/19
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The self-steering golf ball: www.extremetech.com/extreme/297519-nissan-develops-golf-ball-for-stress-free-perfect-putts
Mission: Impossible had a crude version of that for pool balls way back when.

gippgig

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issues.org/pink-chickens-fossil-record-anthropocene-biodesign-challenge/

gippgig

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Reality TV on the space station?

gippgig

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A robot vacuum with AI object recognition: www.samsung.com/us/home-appliances/vacuums/jet-bot-robot/jet-bot-ai-plus-robot-vacuum-with-object-recognition-vr50t95735w-aa/

Christine Axsmith

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Sep 26, 2022, 8:22:28 AM9/26/22
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Digital totalitarianism?

Christine Axsmith

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Resisting Cults, Quacks and Abusive Partners



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Sweet music?

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