Movel lab:

There is a saying that all roads lead to Rome. We set out on 3.375.746 journeys to check if that was really true.

The Economist:

For obvious reasons, surgeons do not like opening heads up unless it is strictly necessary. Sometimes, therefore, the battery packs that power head implants are put in the wearer’s chest. But this means running a wire up through the patient’s neck, from the one to the other, which is scarcely satisfactory either. A way to power such implants without replacing their batteries at all would thus be welcome. And Hyuck Choo of the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues think they have one. They plan to scavenge the necessary energy from the vibrations of the vocal cords that occur when someone is talking

/via Scientific American

How can we use tech more wisely to make the most of our professional lives?

Torsdag 3. desember holdt INMA 8 Minutes of Digital Marketing-konferansen i Saga kino, hvor samtlige av de 35 inviterte speakerne ble bedt om å holde seg til åtte minutter. Av dem alle var det Jostein Magnussen i Netlife Research som ble kåret til den beste av publikum. På sine tilmålte minutter tok han et oppgjør med alle de nye begrepene som har sneket seg inn i markedsføringsbransjen.

/via Motherboard

Over the span of a month, Adam designed and built an accurate replica of the hedge maze architectural model from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The maze model, as seen in The Overlook Hotel, is only seen briefly, but reference screenshots from throughout the film allowed Adam to painstakingly recreate it. The project ended up as one of Adam’s more labor-intensive builds in recent memory!

Motherboard:

Despite their dystopian appearance, the group’s six mining farms encompass eight petahashes per second of computing power, whose brute force as of October accounted for 3 percent of the entire Bitcoin network.