Category Archives: New technology

These are blogs about new technologies, new gadgets, new things to make our lives better, or perhaps more complicated.

Mass storage in perspective

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Brian Lawler

I got an e-mail from a friend with a link to a Facebook page where a photo was displayed of an IBM hard drive was being loaded onto an Pan American airliner with a forklift. The disk, according to the … Continue reading →

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Things I have never seen before

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Brian Lawler

Happy New Year from The Blognosticator! This last week I saw two things I have never seen before, and I thought I would share them with you. And, I have a few other musings to discuss, as you will see. … Continue reading →

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Pencil for Paper by 53

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Brian Lawler

It’s a stylus with a rubber tip on both ends. It works with the Paper app on iPads. I absolutely love Paper, the app by 53. I have been using it for well over a year on my iPad, and … Continue reading →

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I’m going to be an energy magnate!

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Brian Lawler

In my spare time, between teaching and preparing for a photo exhibition opening in February, I have been installing solar panels on my roof. I had decided to do this several years ago, and had found the price of the … Continue reading →

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The Boy Mechanic rides a Faraday bike

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Brian Lawler

As a kid I read The Boy Mechanic cover to cover many times, so many, in fact, that it’s almost worn out, as you can see in the photo, below: This is my tattered copy of The Boy Mechanic, published … Continue reading →

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These two caught my eye

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Brian Lawler

At last week’s PRINT13 convention I saw a lot of machines. Most of these machines were incremental improvements on machines I have seen before, and some were not of interest to me because I have limited my bandwidth recently to … Continue reading →

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Epson’s new dye-sublimation printers enter the market for ink-jet printed fabric

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Brian Lawler

My friends at Epson were showing a couple of new ink-jet printers at PRINT13, printers which are designed to fit into the fabric printing industry. I’m working on a project right now that involves dye-sublimation printing, and I was impressed … Continue reading →

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I have seen the future of newspaper printing

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Brian Lawler

A few years ago I got a chance to see the Hewlett-Packard M400 press in prototype form, and I wrote glowingly about that press. It was the first time I had seen an ink-jet web press. It was, and is, … Continue reading →

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Multiple displays save many dollars in production

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Brian Lawler

I work at a Macintosh computer with two 24-inch Apple Cinema Displays in front of me. It looks like the console of an air traffic controller. The two displays give me 39 inches (measured) of horizontal view, and just about … Continue reading →

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I made it to M

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Brian Lawler

You may be aware that in early December I built a Network Attached Storage server, loaded an operating system on it (FreeNAS), and began the process of copying my large collection of CDs and DVDs to the NAS server. In … Continue reading →

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