Technology

Help cure diseases while you’re AFK.

Basically your computer helps to calculate how proteins “fold” in an attempt to find out when and why they “misfold”. These misfolds can lead to “serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.”

This project has been going on since 2000 so it’s probably nothing new to many of you. That said, I’m finally giving it a go and have started my own “team” called:

Bubblebathgirl

You can participate using your PC, Mac or PS3.

You can download the software here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

My team number is:
149940

You can keep track of how the team is doing here:
http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=149940

Got an idea that could change the world, or at least help a lot of people? Google wants to hear from you — and it will pay as much as $10 million to make your idea a reality. People are encouraged to submit their ideas, in any of 25 languages, at www.project10tothe100.com through October 20. Entrants must briefly describe their idea and answer six questions, including, “If your idea were to become a reality, who would benefit the most and how?”

TED Talks At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days?

Can you image non-oil based plastics? there might actually be a future in plastics.

A beautiful stacking appliance that will improve your life.

Liquid Image has launched their Underwater Digital Camera Mask, a strange hybrid of bulky swim goggles and a waterproof point-and-shoot camera. It’s like a third eye for the digital age.

Now some one needs to place a digital camera into bike helmets! Click-click!

Who doesn’t want a wristwatch phone? Nobody

“Tweak is a new interactive art and live electronic music festival taking place in Limerick City between the 22nd and 27th of September 2008.

Its aim is to promote understanding of the use of technology within our culture and to explore contemporary issues (social, economic, psychological, aesthetic and functional).

The festival will consist of a 5-day exhibition, (interactive artworks, robots and installations) comprising of artworks from international and local artists, 5 days of workshops and 2 evenings of live electronic performance (Including a performance by digital composer Trevor Wishart).”

This looks very interesting.

I wonder if there are any good programmable LED surfaces of this size. Multi-colored LEDs would be a bonus.

Not new, but so, so sweet. NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.