August 11 - Spider Silk is Damn Cool

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own"
- Benjamin Disraeli 






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  1. cranemasterAugust 12, 2014 at 7:34 AM

    The Lyft thing is neat. I've Ubered a few times but I should get that too, it seems like an interesting competitor. And I've been in SF enough to justify it. The new carpool service that they're rolling out honestly seems a lot like my carpool app! Kinda cool.

    Those Broadwell chips are pretty darn exciting; it'll be nice to have that kind of power on your phone. Soon enough we won't need real computers at all, just bluetooth monitors and keyboards....

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    1. MattAugust 12, 2014 at 4:42 PM

      Cool! Maybe you can get royalties from Uber. :-)

      The use case you describe is very real. Whole computer on a key chain, with the display on any dumb glass. With the right kind of gestural and voice input, you don't even really need a keyboard . . .

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