Author: Charles Bartlett

  • Project Ara is Real?!

    Project Ara is Real?!

    I am actually stunned that Project Ara is turning out to be a real product scheduled for release next year. For those unfamiliar, Project Ara is the concept that a smartphone can be a collection modules that you connect to frame-like backbone. The purpose being to allow consumers to upgrade specific components of their smartphone…

  • The First Autonomous Car Driver

    The First Autonomous Car Driver

  • Google’s Goal for D-Wave Quantum Computer

    Google’s Goal for D-Wave Quantum Computer

    It’s widely known that Google has purchased one of the fastest computers in the world from D-Wave Systems based in Canada. What has not been known until now is what do they hope to accomplish with it. New Scientist magazine reports in Google and NASA ride D-Wave to a quantum future that the computer stored in NASA’s…

  • 900 Video Games

    900 Video Games

    Let’s set the Way Back Machine to 1984 and play all of the “Coin-op” video games. 900 Video Games

  • Drivers Need Not Apply

    Drivers Need Not Apply

    In a follow-up to the previous post about automation eliminating jobs for humans, Wired magazine reported on the autonomous Mercedes Benz semi truck . Although Mercedes Benz claims the driver will become a ‘Transport Manager’ in a relaxing spacious cabin, if you start to think through the usage scenario of this truck, it’s quite obvious there…

  • Mindfullness is Not a Foam Stress Ball on your Desk

    Mindfullness is Not a Foam Stress Ball on your Desk