by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire magazine has a number of articles under the “Nerd Power” title this month – including this different sort of paean to Ralph Baer, inventor of the first home video game. I was asked to contribute something, so I contributed this: A geek...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note: A good long video explaining the system can be seen via this Treehugger article) Judging from my decades of life experience there is an iron-clad rule about every room in every house ever built: The electric outlets are in the wrong place. Outlets are always,...
by David Brooks | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The latest report from the Monitor’s weekly tracking of the COVID-19 pandemic is very upbeat but it feels like a scorecard from the final baseball game of the regular season: Almost irrelevant because everybody’s waiting to see what happens in the playoffs. The...
by David Brooks | Aug 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A New Hampshire firm that makes stand-alone kiosks for things like buying tickets is creating COVID-specific products, including a kiosk that measures body temperature through thermal imaging (accurate enough to spot people who need a check w/ a thermometer) and also...
by David Brooks | Aug 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 16 to Aug. 23. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Base Station Grouping for Topology Hiding Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
by David Brooks | Aug 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
NHSaves, a program to urge energy efficiency in the state, and sometimes give financial to upgrading items, sent out an item today telling people how bad incandescent bulbs are. That led me to wonder: Who uses incandescent bulbs any more? Funky restaurants use them to...