We have all heard many rules on how or how not to charge the batteries on our ever growing devices! We found a video that can help out with some of the myths. Enjoy!
The video is courtesy Cnet.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Complicated “Stuffs” Explained!
Have you ever wondered how smart phones work? Oh! Wait, how about how the earth’s surface move? Oh! Wait, how exactly do rockets work? Well that last one is literally rocket science!
If you want to know all these things, you can search the library, your little devices, or computers to find answers. However, I bet you wouldn’t understand everything said though, unless you read more on those things you didn’t understand and in that process you get more things you don’t understand. It can seem very tedious and feel as if you are in a learning loop. Fear no more though, some clever person has been kind enough to help out with this headache.
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff is a book written by Randall Munroe with one thing in mind – Simplify complicated “stuff”. Quite literally, rocket science amongst other everyday topics is explained with very common words so that anyone can pick up the book and understand how things work in our bizarre and interesting world.
Computer Potato prides in simplifying and relating computer and technological advancement to its audience, hence why we give kudos to Mr Munroe for helping us layman understand “complicated stuff”.
Artificial Skin That Senses!
We have all wondered – depending on your point of view- how wonderful or disastrous it would be for robots to actually mimic us as emotional and sensitive beings! Whatever your view if it is possible for oil and metal to feel what living creatures feel, there are some advancements in robotics that just draws us a step closer to creating a “sentient” machine.
Korean and American researchers have created a stretchable material covered with electronic sensors so much that it can feed back pressure, temperature, even moisture.
This “skin” can be placed on prosthetic limbs to help the wearer feel and sense! This will take some time yet before it can be applicable in reality, as connecting it to live nerves is still to be fully achieved.