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Carbonated food

A recent BoingBoing post speaks of a wonder unleashed by a BYU scientist: carbonated yogurt. My friends will know that I make carbonated fruit for special occasions–I wonder exactly what sort of prior art exists on this point? The Wired News story’s link to the patent involved is what reminds me of this. At the very least, it dates back to 1998, when I went to Minicon 33 and learned of the art of carbonation from Matthew Gress, whose webpage on the subject has more information. (Alas, it doesn’t appear to be working at the moment, but Google and archive.org both cache it.) Good times.

Add comment October 3rd, 2005

The Optimus Keyboard

The Optimus Keyboard, a design from the Art. Lebedev Studio, is a physical incarnation of the Key Caps desk accessory from the old-style MacOS. (Apparently it’s called Keyboard Viewer now.) Every single key is a 32×32 OLED screen. This would make learning new keyboard interfaces and typing special characters much easier, and it’s a valuable illustration of what can happen when objects document themselves as much as possible. And it’s amazingly cool to boot.

Add comment September 27th, 2005

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