RFID nightclub, free science books, cybergadgets…

• 1 – “Imaginary Weapons”
  This looks like a good book…it’ll be slipping on to the stock purchase suggestions list at work, methinks.
  (tags: DARPA research science bomb halfnium military US Pentagon book Weapons Imaginary)
• 2 – Last Night An Arphid Saved My Life
  Exclusive nightclub that chips its VIPs with RFID
  (tags: art surveillance futurism nightclub arphid tracking RFID privacy implant)
• 3 – From skin to bone: a look inside a tissue processing plant
  Spare parts for people, from people. Ugh.
  (tags: ligaments bone corpses surgery processing tissue medicine biology)
• 4 – GRAY’S PAPAYA
  Another tiny slice of William Gibson prose. Excellent.
  (tags: scifi SF science prose writing fiction Gibson William)
• 5 – Blogging for Dollars
  Bruce Sterling in praise of Web2.0 startups, the blogosphere and more.
  (tags: Bruce Sterling media community blogging advertising marketing internet web2.0)
• 6 – NewWorldOrder – Mary Mattingly
  This looks like an interesting site that I shall report on further when I get some time. Cheers for the tip-off, Mac!
  (tags: futurism philosophy writing oligopoly Singularity Order World New Mattingly Mary)
• 7 – Backs to the future
  South American tribe conceptualise time in the opposite way to the rest of us
  (tags: America South Andes Aymara chronology culture backwards reverse concept time language psychology)
• 8 – The National Academies Press Home Page
  Free science books online! Wh00t!
  (tags: resources ebooks collection archive research reference free books science)
• 9 – Healthcare chips could get under your skin
  RFID up your life, and avoid the risk of your medical records getting mixed up.
  (tags: futurism hospitals data records chip RFID technology medicine)
• 10 – Extreme Galaxies Much Like Our Own
  Seen one galaxy, seen ‘em all. Kind of.
  (tags: science cosmology astronomy dust gas extreme distant galaxy space)
• 11 – Full-time wearable headphone gaze detector presented by DoCoMo
  Early cyberwear prototypes are always a bit on the cumbersome side…
  (tags: futurism technology gadget recorder attention hardware detector gaze cyberpunk)
• 12 – Chipmakers gear up for manufacturing hurdles
  Small is beautiful (and faster and more efficient), but it’s hard work making tiny things properly.
  (tags: manufacturing small scale circuits technology computer processors chips silicon semiconductor)
• 13 – Cheap Drinking Water from the Ocean
  Carbon nanotube-based membranes will dramatically cut the cost of desalination.
  (tags: purification water desalination environment nanotubes carbon technology)
• 14 – French-German Group Verifies High-Temperature Superconductivity Theory Proposed by UCR Physicist
  Science just keeps on moving, no matter how inexplicable it may be to the layman…
  (tags: theory temperature high superconductors technology physics science)
• 15 – Dawn of the Gig-Stained Wretch
  An inexplicable title (to my UK eyes at least) for a Wired article that says those electronic newspapers we’ve been promised for decades are finally on the horizon…
  (tags: reader electronic futurism newspaper technology ebooks ereaders epaper)
• 16 – Epson Unveils 7.1? QXGA E-Paper
  …meanwhile, here’s one from Epsom.
  (tags: reader electronic futurism newspaper technology ebooks ereaders epaper)
• 17 – British scientists unveil latest craft to search for life on Mars
  ‘Bridget’ should succeed where ‘Beagle’ failed…
  (tags: exploration space autonomous robot rover mission ESA Martian Mars Beagle Bridget Astrium)
• 18 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy Formation
  Using computers to si,ulate the early stages of the universe
  (tags: cosmology formation galaxy simulation astronomy technology science computer)