I post about cool gadgets frequently on this blog, but it occurred to me that I should also start a transistor-free gadget series, since there are plenty of clever and well-designed non-digital artifacts that can make our lives easier. So I will start with a great kitchen gadget that has been seeing daily use nearly…
From the New York Times: researchers implanted tiny sensors directly into two monkey’s brains, which were wired to a robotic arm. The monkeys were able to learn to control the arm and feed themselves with it using just their thoughts. Quite a stunning example of brain-machine interface technology. Of course, this is nowhere near ready…
So my partner Jason finally decided to put up a personal blog. He’s been blogging for years now as the wizard-behind-the-curtain at AskTheVC and as a guest blogger on Feld Thoughts, but he hasn’t had a more free-range vehicle until now. So go check out Mendelson’s Musings. He also has a music page on his…
It has been a couple years since my band Soul Patch last played live, and we’ve been itching to play ever since. But having children, starting a new venture fund and moving to Boulder, CO mean that the band is now spread among Boulder, LA and San Francisco. Well, we’re all coming together to play…
From Derek Siver’s blog. Check out Twistori, a web page that gives you a real-time filter of the Twitter stream. Twistori shows tweets containing the words love, hate, think, believe, feel or wish. A nice anonymous glimpse into people’s hopes, fears, anger and aspirations. And it is an impressive statement about the message volume flowing…
I’ve been using a great service called PhoneTag (used to be called SimulScribe, the new name is much better) for at least a year now, and I have to say it is one of the best new products to emerge in a while — a true time saver. I’d wished for years that this service…
My old friend Tom Lewis, who I knew back in the day when we were both denizens of the Valley during the bubble years, just posted a nice review of Sooner or Later on the LAist. My favorite line in the review: There is a jam band element to Soul Patch, with the expected chord…
Move over Quicken, Mint.com has arrived. I just spent some time playing around with Mint.com after my wife Katherine set up the account. All I have to say is wow. As a family, we have endeavored from time to time to be regular users of Quicken. We would always eventually stop using it because Quicken…
We launched a blog on the Foundry Group website back in February, so since then my blogging duties have been serving two masters. On that blog, we post news about our portfolio, thoughts on VC in general and some “think pieces” on investment themes we are interested in and how we look at the technology…
As long time readers of my blog know, I like to reflect from time to time on the relentless growth of processing capacity and storage density in the computing world. I’m about a week behind on the news, but felt compelled to comment on the story I saw on Slashdot last week, that Seagate announced…