Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire 

NH gets a cool new monument to video games

As I'm sure you know, the late Ralph Baer of Manchester led the team that developed the first home video game while working at Sanders Associates in Nashua. That's the state's big moment in the video game arena, memorialized in a life-size statue of Baer in a...

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Guess I’d better buy my wood pellets soon …

Guess I’d better buy my wood pellets soon …

The price hikes and supply crunches that have clobbered fuel supplies and raised prices throughout the world are starting to affect the one fuel we can call our own: Wood pellets. “There is quite a bit available right now but with the ongoing situation, there might be...

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N.H. patents through Sept. 18

By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Sept. 18. ​​​​​​​Vapotherm Assigned Patent for Quiet Nasal Cannula Vapotherm, Exeter, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,439,784, initially filed...

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NH EV-charging plans approved by feds

New Hampshire is one of 35 states that have had their plans for federally-funded EV charging stations approved in the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. The plan is still kind of vague: For example, it says there will be a station in Concord, but...

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About Granite Geek

Dave Brooks has written a weekly science/tech newspaper column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on geekish topics in and around the Granite State. He discusses the geek world regularly on WGIR-AM radio, and moderated the monthly Science Cafe NH sessions when they were still a thing. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.

Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association, Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau (of all places) and his 2024 induction into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame.

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