Can Tech Create Muscle Tissue?
Back surgery sometimes results in an infarction of a nerve. If the nerve does not grow back, the result can be a drop foot condition. Over time, the leg muscle atrophies. If you walk around Florida, you can see more than a few cases of gentlemen in shorts with one leg noticeably smaller than the […]
Businessweek said Today’s Computer Voting Is Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete
Today’s Businessweek did an excellent job of reporting about our broken election system. The story focused on the 10-15 year old voting machines we use across America. I had written in Election Attitude about this and many other problems in our registration and voting systems, but Businessweek drilled down deep into the history and future […]
New Robot Gives Surgeons a Sense of Touch
Newer cars and the new iPhone use haptic feedback, a small vibration in the steering wheel or the home button, to signal you have crossed over the white line on the highway or you have pushed the home button on your iPhone. A team at Australia’s Deakin University and Harvard University have used similar technology in […]
Internet Voting at DACS
Digital Politics: Podcast about Internet Voting
Karen Jagoda,President at E-Voter Institute, interviewed me earlier this week for Digital Politics. She asked really good questions about what is holding back Internet voting. You can listen to the podcast here. Election Attitude – How Internet Voting Leads to a Stronger Democracy