15 Current Technologies My Newborn Son Won’t Use
A surprising number of the gadgets and technologies we have today are on the verge of extinction. Laptop Mag’s Avram Piltch walks us through more than a dozen, knowing that his newborn son will be about as familiar with them as today’s teens are with Betamax. And some of this batch might surprise you. From…
How Maple Syrup Is Produced in the 21st Century
We’re not quite at the cusp of The Singularity yet, but technological progress touches just about everything around us. This fact was driven home recently when the Geeklings and I visited a local sugarbush. For the uninitiated, a sugarbush is the term for a maple syrup harvesting operation, which includes the trees, collection apparatus, and…
Why North Korea Still Sucks at Launching Rockets
Congratulations, North Korea. You have just failed to put a satellite in orbit for the fourth time in fifteen years. Exhale, America: Pyongyang will not be able to attack you at home. The North Korean rocket launch that gave the world heartburn is a dud. Again. CNN reports that the Unha-3 rocket blew up after…
