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May 09
2009

Roomba: a powerful past

The wonder robot’s connection to the U.S. military industrial complex, ancient China, and the Devil.


Apr 20
2009

A Hollywood legend and your cellphone

The late Hedy Lamarr is a key figure in why you can surf the web wirelessly, talk on your cellphone hands-free using Bluetooth, and guide torpedoes to their destinations. Her name wasn’t always Hedy Lemarr. She was born Hedwig Eva Maria Keisler in Vienna to a successful banker and her pianist mother. Louis B. Mayer [...]


Mar 20
2009

THERE’S Waldo! And my car keys!

Our eyes are designed to spot movement. Those of us with more twitchy tendencies are more likely to find Waldo, car keys. Our eyes never remain perfectly still, even when staring at one spot. Researchers in Arizona picked up a Where’s Waldo? book and recorded the eye movements of subjects searching for the lanky bespectacled [...]


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  1. Alan Cross is a radio legend.

  2. Bruce Sellery is a former colleague who’s passionate about people managing their money

  3. Carmi Levy is the broadcast media’s go-to guy who truly knows his stuff.

  4. Cory Doctorow is someone I knew before he was famous for editing Boing Boing, jet-setting around the world to protect freedoms you didn’t know you were losing, and writing novels. And he even still returns my emails.

  5. Craig Sebastiano is a television and print writer. Got something that needs writin’? Craig’s your man.

  6. Jason Tan is a film guy who is pretty laid back for someone who’s done some pretty cool stuff.

  7. Jon Nye & The Hackits - the hard rockinest guys with day jobs.

  8. Lindsay Smith is one of the geekiest girls I know. And coolest.

  9. Lou Schizas is the Happy Capitalist.

  10. Matthew Ingram is one of the smartest guys in tech reporting today.

  11. Richard Burdett is a great portrait and news photographer who gets to work with beautiful models. I hate him.

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