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High Fidelity Audio Enters The Digital Age – SlashdotHi There I’m Walkman 2014
Neil Young’s preaching has been working — Sony recently announced their latest WalkMan, the 35th Anniversary model, and it’s pretty bad-ass. Save the Audio!
That little slab of gadget-lust has got hi-fi audio specs (DAC, amp, wiring, shielding), excellent … Read the rest
Resolution, Not Frequency Range
Anyone arguing about audio and getting stuck on the overall hearing range of humans is actually missing the point.
What digital audio has really been doing is giving us lower resolutions on the sounds we can hear.
… Read the restHave you ever
Digital Audio Verses Timbre
If an electric guitar and a piano both play a C major chord at the same volume, can you tell the difference between them? Would you be able to discern a difference between the guitar and the piano’s version of … Read the rest
1 Trillion Odors, or alot of Funk
Ha, Imagine That! I’m running all over the internet fighting bad science about hearing and music, and The Journal of Science publishes a study that says scientists have really underestimated the abilities of our nose and sense of smell.
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Bad Science + Business Interests = Trouble
Computer geeks know lots of things. The sheer breadth of stuff that geeks have crammed in their head is impressive.
But their major mistake is often not acknowledging their own ignorance. Many have come up in a world so digitally … Read the rest
Gravitons, Waves, and Cosmic Microwave Background Oh My!
Big news from the physics world that I can’t possibly explain accurately, but here goes anyway.
Someone discovered a trace of a magnetic signal that is believed to come from the origin of the universe, a signal created shortly after … Read the rest
Wow Righteous Indeed
Excellent talk from Neil Young at South By Southwest about his new product – the Pono Music Player. He breaks it all down in simple terms, better than any amount of text I can type:
Subtly Outrageous
Well it’s 2014, and snarky internet humor is just about all we have left. Prez Obama actually went on Zach Galifinakis’ mock talk show Between Two Ferns to pitch Healthcare.gov.
… Read the restRighteous Audio – Finally!
I love knowing I’m not alone in my rants. I have been complaining about digital audio compromises since the 80’s, and now, finally, a product is coming for people like me. It’s called “Pono” (Hawaiian for ‘righteous’) and its basically … Read the rest
Oh Europa, Europa
Check it, some smart folks are looking into the feasibility of actually going to Europa, the strange moon of Jupiter that has often been pegged in fiction as the home of our alien friends.
Europa is covered in a … Read the rest
Small World Big Problems
A good article investigating child labor in the electronics industry, and what Apple in particular tries to do regarding the complex issue.… Read the rest
Computer Shoes Zap You With Feedback
There have been shoe computers before. Since the early 1980’s people have been shoving embedded computers of some sort into their shoes for mileage and step tracking. Apple & Nike have been doing this for 15 years too.
Now, started … Read the rest
Comedy Genius RIP
Sad, another movie star favorite passes on.
Harold Ramis, too funny, so funny, you will be missed.
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Global Forest Watch
Love those trees. We get help from trees on lots of things, including this little thing called breathing.
Global Forest Watch has teamed up with Google to monitor the planet’s greenery. Knowledge is power!
Through Being Cool
Bob Casale, guitarist and programmer for DEVO passed away yesterday. Here’s a tribute from his brother.
DEVO is one of the most important bands in history. They are not the easiest to listen to. They don’t have the largest … Read the rest
Most Valuable Ohio Player
The Internet Is Owned – Act Accordingly
The top guy at Kaspersky Labs, one of the top security/encryption geeks walking, and one of the more restrained ones, dropped this bombshell during his keynote at their latest security conference:
… Read the rest“I operate under the principle that my computer is