RF collectors??
I know enough to know that I don’t know if the following is even feasible. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for Chris Hoadley
Permanent paper
ok, here’s a silly idea. We print things on dead tree pulp, then shred the stuff back into pulp and start over, calling it recycling. Except every time the fibers get shorter and the stuff is less useful. Also dirtier. Read the rest of this entry »
Email awareness
I have a terrible time with email overload. I process approximately 100 real emails (not spam) per day. Some are basically irrelevant and I can delete them immediately, some require more attention, and often, I get backlogged by weeks or even months on things that I would read if I could get to them.
My big issue is that others have no awareness of why I’m not emailing back. Read the rest of this entry »
Ratemyjournals.com?
Those of you who are academics will appreciate this one. The other night, I’m out during our conference crying into glasses of beer with colleagues who’ve had their work stalled by the slowness of a journal’s review process. Read the rest of this entry »
An issue with voice recognition
Okay, typical scenario: you’re stuck in an airport. Your flight has been cancelled. You’re trying to rebook, and the line is huge. You call the airline’s toll free number. Read the rest of this entry »
A newsalyzer for education
Today a neat idea came up during Umber Shamim’s thesis defense. (Congrats Umber!) How can teachers integrate up-to-date news items into curriculum without having to go do all the legwork and research themselves? Read the rest of this entry »
Clothes Dryers
Okay, this one is a bit far afield for me. I’m no mechanical engineer. But clothes dryers have to be the most inefficient way to dry clothes. What I’m thinking Read the rest of this entry »
simple things
This is not really what I wanted to do with this blog, but I have to give a shout-out to three lovely things that already exist. (I wish I’d invented em, I guess.) Read the rest of this entry »
fix the health system
OK, so two guys work for a huge multinational corporation their whole life. Five years before retirement, one stays with the main company, the other Read the rest of this entry »
dumb phones
Certain products are so highly evolved in their genre it’s hard to imagine improvement. The old hardy Bell telephones come to mind, as do the electromechanical Selectric typewriters. In many ways, they were perfect. Read the rest of this entry »