Proust on art

Proust's elegantly incisive observation: "Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance."

-Tom.

Amazon's Kindle Fire Is Blazingly Fast for a Mobile Device | Popular Science

Aha. I've often wondered why I sit waiting a long time for a page to load. This article describes how an operating system can get around the bottleneck of a slow host server, by crowd sourcing page elements and pre packaging them in an efficient format. TE

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2011-12/amazons-kindle-fire-blazingly-fast-mobile-device

-Tom.

How incredible life is

"It's hard for us to accept how incredible life is, in the moment..."
Nicely phrased thought from a video about time passing.

scan a building into CAD

Within a radius of 400', this $30,000 camera scans in data points so you can recreate an environment, like a crime scene or building design in minutes so you can manipulate your view of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeU4X5B0Zyg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.

Spray-On Skin | Popular Science

A harvested skin sample grows while you wait in this device and can be sprayed back on to an area 80 X the size of the harvest.
http://www.popsci.com/bown/2011/product/avitarecell-spray-skin

-Tom.

The Lytro camera

CNET description of the Lytro camera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDyRSYGcFVM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.

Lytro light field camera

Camera with thousands of micro lenses captures multiple pictures allowing you to select different parts of the image to bring into focus after the fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm3_sbA01zI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.

PrintBrush™ - First pocket size ink jet printer/digital camera in the world! (hi def video)

Prints onto any surface.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhLFxRgfQ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSM5z5vL-Qo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhLFxRgfQ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5_kkvaIpiM

-Tom.

Very cool. Print on anything. PrintBrush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSM5z5vL-Qo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.

Steve Jobs and product image

He would care, sometimes obsessively, about marketing and image and even details of packaging.
"When you open the box of an iPhone or iPad, we want that tactile experience to set the tone for how you perceive the product." p. 78 of his biopgraphy. http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1501127624/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1445475772&sr=1-1&keywords=steve+jobs+biography

Steve Jobs bio

"I think his desire for complete control of whatever he makes derives directly from his personality and the fact that he was abandoned at birth." p4
"He learned to stare at people without blinking, and he perfected long silences punctuated by staccato bursts of fast talking. This odd mix of intensity and aloofness.." p31
"He could be brutally cold and rude to her at times, but he was also entrancing and able to impose his will. 'He was an enlightened being who was also cruel.' "p32.

Steve Jobs biography

"They developed...whole new devices and services that consumers did not yet know they needed." p xxi
"Jobs said that his appreciation for Eichler homes (http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=mog&hl=en&gl=us&client=safari&q=eichler%20homes&sa=N&biw=320&bih=416#p=0)
instilled in him a passion for making nicely designed products for the mass market." p7

Brain changes shape from studying.

London can drivers study furiously to pass a test of knowing 25000 streets. Their brains were studied and actually changed shape versus controls. TE
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2011/WTVM053658.htm

Informed consent for Anesthesia

It seems that the more you tell patients about specific risks, the more it relieves their anxiety.
Here's a list of studies of consent for anesthesia.

How Medicare Fails the Elderly

  

OPINION   | October 16, 2011
Opinion:  How Medicare Fails the Elderly
By JANE GROSS
The truth about Medicare: what it pays for is not what most recipients need or want.