As the nation’s health care debate/debacle (debatecle?) crescendos into to a high-pitched whine, one champion’s advances threaten to trump all the efforts of the medical community, pharmaceutical industry, and lobbying covens. And this champion, this potential savior, is an unlabeled, off-brand, non-invasive, patent-free, discount store sugar pill.
According to Wired magazine, placebo effects have dramatically increased over the past few years, making it monumentally tough to get new drugs approved by the FDA.
WiTricity CEO, Eric Giler, demonstrates the newest innovations in the field of wireless electricity. This is a technology that could put a permanent end to the battery industry. If you watch the lecture closely, you may see an Engergizer Bunny Assassin lurking in the scaffolding above.
EMET is a short film produced by Bonsaininja Studios, in Milan. It attempts to depict man’s spiritual struggle versus his pursuit of technological perfection.
One of my new favorite toys is this online tool that allows you to indulge your wildest internet egocentricities. The tool seeks out your each and every Google-worthy act and unceremoniously dumps it into one of many pre-determined category bins, forever branding the nature of your service to the human race.
It’s so uncompromising and final… This pleases me.
Spent the day traveling on Richard Branson’s innovative airline. Virgin is a magical land of travel where the plane resembles a disco dance boutique more than a cattle car.
This well-crafted video touches on several Mep themes including Chess, Debate, and the habits of the incompetent. It seems to have been inspired entirely by board trolls, which may be their first ever positive (though second-hand) contribution to mankind.
More, by Mark Osborne, is regarded as one of the best short films ever created. Set in a dreary world where workers slave away creating happiness widgets for a voracious consumer culture, it could be a commentary on modern economics, anti-depressant culture, or the digital revolution.
While this piece won an Academy Award a decade ago, and is hardly new news, it was recently released in a larger IMAX format, which is enough excuse to watch it again…
If I were Google, I would be truly frightened right now. I mean, Bing now has it’s very own jingle, and a silhouetted man doing squat thrusts in its honor.
