Techno-Archeology is a field of research into the history and archeology of technology and engineering. This is my term for this new field, as I have not yet found an “official” term for this discipline. I use the term technology very loosely here, and include all kinds of technologies, not only mechanical devices. I have been interested in technology and history my whole life, and it has always bothered me that school books and the...

European robotics labs are collaborating to develop a humanoid robot by copying the human body’s inner structures: bones, joints, muscles, and tendons. The ECCEROBOT project has three goals: to design and build a robot using anthropomimetic principles; to characterise its dynamics and control it; to exploit its human-like characteristics to produce some human-like cognitive features. The researchers used thermoplastic polymer, elastic...

As of October 1st of 2008, Nevada businesses must encrypt personal information of a customer for any electronic transmission. A simple, inexpensive solution to meeting this legal mandate is to sign up for Webloq‘s private email (Full Disclosure: I am the VP of Engineering for Webloq). The law defines personal information as first name or first initial plus last name in combination with either a Social Security number, driver’s...

President Obama’s health initiative is spurring a great deal of debate and thought in IT circles. The following is a list of some of those thoughts: Market Outlook in Health Care Health care will generate 3 million new wage and salary jobs between 2006 and 2016, more than any other industry. Seven of the twenty fastest growing occupations are health care related. Job opportunities should be good in all employment settings. Employment...