Author Archives: billcomstock

Amateur Beats Gov’t at Digitizing Newspapers: Tom Tryniski’s Weird, Wonderful Website

A retiree with a scanner builds one of the world’s largest historic newspaper sites while tax-funded projects stall.

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Storing Digital Data in DNA

Nope. Not The Onion, it is in the Wall Street Journal.

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Air Paparazzi: Advances in technology are making privacy an impossibility. Ugh.

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Freaking me out

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Image performance metrics: “perceptual megapixels”

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Great idea for a book & exhibit

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3D book scanner eyes novels at 250 pages per minute

God help and protect us.

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A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints

A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints from Greg Petchkovsky on Vimeo.

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Google engineer builds $1,500 page-turning scanner out of sheet metal and a vacuum

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