Bike Design ideas

Bike design ideas

http://www.gizmag.com/tag/bike/2/

the 'Batman' of recumbents

http://twobushdesigns.com/predator%20trike/predatorV1.html

Forward triangle design
http://www.cruzbike.com/

Monocoque recumbent patent:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=m_QxAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=United+States+Patent+4773663&source=bl&ots=pF6Vk-3iTa&sig=nyttARGkB2SacByRpOKK38_Wabk&hl=en&ei=gTkWSr_IHJjItAPGrdiSDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#PPA6,M1

Using a cell phone camera chip for medical diagnosis

Saw an interesting piece on using a digital camera chip for remote medical diagnosis. It's a way of getting microscopic analysis without a microscope - the sample just sits on top of the camera sensor chip. The shadows the specimen casts can provide enough information for clinical diagnosis. You can see it online at
http://science.discovery.com/videos/brink-package-micro-cell-phone.html
or read about it at
http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=36533

This large file is one of their academic papers:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/oct08/22leos05.pdf

and an example of using the technology at
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/31/10670.full

NYTimes.com: Frugal Traveler: Research: The Traveler's Best Friend

Here's a good list of websites (within the article) to research an upcoming vacation.  Seatguru.com was new to me (who has time to put in all that info?) and I've yet to try tripit.com but it sounds handy. TRAVEL   | May 06, 2009 Frugal Traveler: Research: The Traveler's Best Friend By Matt Gross From researching destinations to booking flights and hotels to actually figuring out what to do when I arrive, I have a long list of Web sites and other resources - some well known, others less so - that I use to learn what's new, interesting and inexpensive  "... Google Maps,... search for user-created maps of worthy landmarks. "... Kayak.com, which searches virtually every other booking site, is my first stop: its flexibility, range, speed and ability to filter your results in specific ways are almost unmatched. But I’ve also started to use ITAsoftware.com’s QPX system, which was developed for the airline industry "...[then] go to the airline’s own Web site to simplify the reservation "...[then] check SeatGuru.com, which has seat maps of most major airlines’ planes, to find the best, most comfortable spot available. "...on Trip Advisor,... skip over its hotel listings and change “Property Type” to “Other Lodging,” which turns up pensions, campgrounds, hostels and other accommodations that I often find more intriguing (and usually less expensive) than hotels "...Once I’ve got all my confirmation e-mails, I forward them over toTripIt.com, which automatically turns them into an easy-to-edit itinerary. "...The thing about all this preparation is that it never fully prepares me for the sight of a new place, the smell of its streets and the charmingly surprising behavior of its people — the moments of discovery that inspire us to travel in the first place."

A call for revamping Universities and their structure

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: End the University as We Know It
By MARK C. TAYLOR

If higher education is to thrive, colleges and universities, like Wall
Street and Detroit, must be rigorously regulated and completely 
restructured....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html