How an Xlerator Hand Dryer is Made
Surprisingly hand-crafted. Outside: a buffed zinc outer unit. Inside: a motor spins a blower wheel at a rate of 20,000 revolutions per minute. See video below.
Surprisingly hand-crafted. Outside: a buffed zinc outer unit. Inside: a motor spins a blower wheel at a rate of 20,000 revolutions per minute. See video below.
My first feature for Discover magazine is now online! In “Our Data, Ourselves,” I write about a Google engineer’s project to turn mobile phones phones into the ultimate data-collection devices. The idea is that when a person tracks her behaviors … Continue reading
I was there when Steve Jobs killed the touch-screen stylus. It was at the 2007 Macworld event in San Francisco. Steve Jobs had just unveiled the first iPhone. It was an era when most smart phones had keyboards. According to … Continue reading
A new story of mine is up at Technology Review. It’s about a novel touch sensor that’s quite versatile—good for wires, fabrics, rubber, paper, and hard flat surfaces like walls, floors, and coffee tables. The researchers, Patrick Baudisch (Hasso-Plattner Institute) … Continue reading
For decades, the computer industry has been driven by Moore’s law, which started as an observation by Intel’s Gordon Moore that computer chips doubled in capability (or shrink in size by half) every 18 months or so. But at this … Continue reading