Archive for October, 2008
High-Throughput…Blogging?
The future of blogging...humans not included
I was taking a look at Engadget earlier today and happened upon this post. That tiny little robot featured next to the laptop is not just a trendy desk accessory, but a full time blogging machine. The NetTansorWeb is Wi-Fi enabled, contains a small camera in its head with which to scout the human race’s weaknesses take pictures of its surroundings and post to a blog with short comments!
At my previous job my department worked with high-throughput machines in a variety of experiments, speeding up compound screening and assay development. Now if only someone could transfer some of the “smarts” the NetTansorWeb seems to have to my qPCR machine. I certainly wouldn’t mind some short comments along with my results. Until then I look forward to seeing what these robots will be blogging about… maybe we can add one to the payroll.
Read more at Bouncing Red Ball.
Seam carving will be in Photoshop CS4!
I always find it fascinating how fast technology moves; in this case, “seam carving”, which is a clever algorithm for removing or replicating low-content spaces in images, is now going to be in Photoshop CS4 as “content aware scaling”! Pretty awesome for an algorithm that only got presented last year.