As my parents are keeping up with technology pretty well, a small computer has been part of the living room’s ensemble of electronic gear for quite a while now. But with the audio&video sky-rocketing from s-video discs and crappy *.avi files to DVD, Full HD, Blueray untouched and finally 4K videos, with new Skype, Office […]
Continue Reading →Every now and then I feel like I have to step away from the books and get my hands a little dirty. Although mostly not quite literally “dirty”. This time, for example, I had to wear latex gloves the whole time.. Over the weekend I had the opportunity to help Hong Kong’s team for the […]
Continue Reading →The description to this short documentary reads: This short documentary reveals the hazards of the electronics industry in China profiling workers poisoned by chemicals and their struggle for compensation. Thousands of young people in China enter export factories to make the West’s favorite electronic gadgets, only to find they have contracted occupational diseases or worse, […]
Continue Reading →About 1 ½ months after the 30th annual Chaos Communication Congress I have finally managed to watch if not all, at least the majority of lectures and presentations given there. One can either download all the material here (in any quality / format one could possibly wish for), or, as the videos have also found […]
Continue Reading →A few weeks ago, the 2013 Chaos Communication Congress (30c3), the annual conference organized by the German Chaos Computer Club (Europe’s largest hacker association) came to an end. Within more than 170 lectures and assemblies as well as a multitude of other projects and workshops, the congress covered and discussed a multitude of different topics […]
Continue Reading →What does it do? It glows blue. Well, actually, it glows blue/violet-ish and has has a rotating beam of radioactive green looking light in the middle. As a special present for my mother I made an advanced version of a Uranium Marble Ring Oscillator pendant. For those scared by the word “uranium”: rest assured, there […]
Continue Reading →On December 25th 2013 Edward Snowden delivered an alternative Christmas message on the UK’s channel 4 TV station. I believe it is very worth watching.
Continue Reading →In this informative and also humorous TED lecture, Allesandro Acquisti, a researcher on the behavioural economics of privacy, talks about the current state of privacy online and why we should care about it. He concludes his talk with the following thought: “I do believe that one of the defining fights of our time will be […]
Continue Reading →The Guardian’s “Comments is free” section recently featured an article written by Abbas El-Zein, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Sydney titled “As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work“. It neatly summarizes many aspects of the “Wetware Design & Behaviour” division of Applied Digital Ethics. The most notable […]
Continue Reading →To prepare for the digitized future, Hong Kong deploys what it calls it’s “Digital 21 Strategy“. The idea is to draft a periodically updated strategy paper that can provide a blueprint for Hong Kong’s ICT development and set up task forces to ensure it’s implementation. According to the Hong Kong government, the following is the […]
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