David Said

In the lab of UCLA electrical engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan, a prototype cell phone has been constructed that is capable of monitoring the condition of HIV and malaria patients, as well as testing water quality in undeveloped areas or disaster sites. The innovative imaging technology was invented by Ozcan, a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, and has been miniaturized by researchers in his lab to the point that it can fit in standard cell phones.

http://www.smalltimes.com/display_article/348783/109/ARTCL/none/none/1/UCLA-develops-HIV-monitoring-for-cell-phones/

The Maillard reaction occurs when the denatured proteins on the surface of the meat recombine with the sugars present. The combination creates the “meaty” flavor and changes the color.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/meat/INT-what-makes-flavor.html

You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.”

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/

Here, check this out:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Also check tomato and other custom firmwares, DD-WRT works great for me.

This link provides a step by step sequence on how to install a web server using Ubuntu.

Well, it actually runs in python, so it can also run on macOS or even in your crappy windows machine.

With no further comments, here I present the code: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511444/

Ubiquity is a very cool firefox tool that allows language-based instructions to be forwarded to different web services.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need

Borregos 3D is the name of our Robocup team. As I commented on an earlier post, this is one of the projects I took for the summer, and it had terrific results. We were eliminated from the tournament in the third round, as the third place of group A. If you review the results with care, you will see that the games we lost, we played against the first and second place of the whole tournament, so it is not a bad result at all.

While this was a good result, it could be greatly improved if we send a bigger programming team to the competence, so we are starting some fund-raising activities, including the sale of several promotional products that feature our logo (shown below). Please do leave a comment if you are interested in purchasing a t-shirt, sticker or baseball cap.