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Technogeekery
Now this is interesting: a powered exoskeleton for paraplegics
It ain’t cheap. But I wonder if this is one of those things we’re going to see come down in price as the affiliated technologies become cheaper, and as more people start using it. Assuming that they do… ReWalk™ is a man-machine device where the user is actively involved and has control of all mobility [...]
A couple of wallpapers
If anyone’s interested: here are a couple of 1920×1200 wallpapers of Swiss alpine scenery generated with Terragen 2. The first is one of a number of studies of the north end of the Great Aletsch Glacier in central Switzerland: specifically, the area where the three glaciers running down from the Eiger, Jungfrau and Monch converge, [...]
To Dover, and beyond!!
Well, not too far beyond, we hope. I’ll sure be watching this on the lunchtime news… (ETA: Postponed to Sept. 26 due to cloud / bad weather in France.)
Hadron abuse
One more thing I hadn’t thought I needed to be worried about. (with a tip of the hat to our cousins at Bad Astronomy Blog) Tags: hadron, abuse, subatomic, particle, CERN
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30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
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