If anything, this article is just more proof that electric cars aren’t ready yet. By my (quick, conservative) calculations it would take nearly four years to pay off the extra cost of the electric vehicle. All before you consider it only does 80-100 miles on a charge and takes 6-hours to recharge.
More news on people willing to replace their (defective) body parts with bionic alternatives, the singularity is coming as I’ve previously said.
Benjamin Mee, a freelance writer who bought a dilapidated zoo on the edge of Dartmoor as a retirement home for his mother, will probably not mind if disappointed visitors discover he has a little less hair than Matt Damon.
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Through a warren of Devon lanes, the zoo is not easy to find. Making a Hollywood movie has proved simpler than persuading the council and highways authority to erect the correct brown signs for the tourist attraction. Is anyone here? “They’ll be along shortly,” said the zoo curator Colin Northcott.
Mee took over the crumbling zoo in 2006, after persuading his mother, Amelia, to sell the five-bedroom family home in Surrey and buy – with the same £1.2m asking-price – the run-down house on the edge of Dartmoor that happened to come with a zoo. Their purchase saved 200 animals from being shot.
Interesting views on the two side: that people will only use technology to fix problems versus people will use technology to enhance their bodies.
The boy with the lightning tattoo
One word: awesome.
But developer and security researcher Nadim Kobeissi hopes that it might do something more: bring secure communications to those who need it most, people whose free speech is threatened whether in countries like Syria or in the west.
Mr Kobeissi is a developer of a secure communications program called Cryptocat.
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He plans to buy Raspberry Pi computers and set them up to work as credit-card sized servers running Cryptocat.
Because of their low-cost and small size they can then be shipped to activists and NGO’s in areas where free-speech is difficult.
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is starting to become reality, sort of.
