What's Been and What's Ben

William Shockley is the father of silicon valley and he co-invented the semiconductor – which you computer has 50 to 500 million of that do all the logic. There is a google tech talk about the secret history of silicon valley that is ridiculous interesting. It focuses heavily on how WWII was the first electronic [...]

I recently found something on the internet tubes that is awesome. It is the Texas Intruments EZ430 chronos watch. It lacks gold, 100M water resistance, and does not out of the box tell you the tide. It does have a 3-axis accelerometer, a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, and a wireless connection to a computer [...]