{"id":12232,"date":"2015-10-15T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=12232"},"modified":"2015-10-15T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:23:04","slug":"geek-month-in-review-september-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=12232","title":{"rendered":"Geek Month in Review: September 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JB Sanders<\/p>\n

You know, Fall\u2019s coming… <\/p>\n

A Record Player, with Lasers<\/a><\/strong>
\nStop making Dr. Evil gestures! It\u2019s a real record player, vinyl disks of grooves, only instead of crude needle jolting through the channels, it uses lasers. No damage to the original at all. Plus if the record is already dinged up, it\u2019ll compensate. <\/p>\n

Lost Tunnels of Liverpool<\/a><\/strong>
\nSo, there are these tunnels underneath the city of Liverpool \u2014 which is not exactly odd, except that no one knows who made them, or why. They\u2019re over 200 years old, too, so it\u2019s a mystery with some dust on it. <\/p>\n

Archaeologists Reconstruct Doggerland<\/a><\/strong>
\nRemember that island off the east coast of England? No? It so totally used to be there, about 8000 years ago. Then the sea levels rose. <\/p>\n

Recover Sound from Silent Video \u2014 and More!<\/a> <\/strong>
\nThis is some straight-up science fiction, here, only now it\u2019s science fact. <\/p>\n

Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel<\/a><\/strong>
\nDARPA researchers have created a prosthetic hand that can actually send a sense of touch to the wearer\u2019s brain. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s Not Slow Motion, This is Slow Motion<\/a><\/strong>
\nScientists have developed a camera that takes a trillion pictures a second. Yeah, you read that right. A trillion, with a \u201ct\u201d. It slows things down so much, they can observe light moving across an object. <\/p>\n

Touch Screen That Grows Buttons<\/a><\/strong>
\nThose crafty folks at MIT are working on a screen that creates real buttons when you need them, right on the screen. <\/p>\n

Blindsight and Human Consciousness<\/a><\/strong>
\nThere\u2019s more to human perception, and to human consciousness, then \u2026 er \u2026 meets the eye. It starts with a guy who is blind in one eye, but in repeated tests can still somehow perceive out of it. It gets stranger from there. <\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a> About John:<\/strong>
\nJohn’s a geek from way back. He’s been floating between various computer-related jobs for years, until he settled into doing tech support in higher ed. Now he rules the Macs on campus with an iron hand (really, it’s on his desk).<\/p>\n

Geek Credentials:<\/strong>
\nRPG:<\/strong> Blue box D&D, lead minis, been to GenCon in Milwaukee.
\nComputer:<\/strong> TRS-80 Color Computer, Amiga 1000, UNIX system w\/reel-to-reel backup tape
\nCard games:<\/strong> bought Magic cards at GenCon in 1993
\nScience:<\/strong> Met Phil Plait, got time on a mainframe for astronomy project in 1983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"