Cromely's World

Wired's cover story this month is about feedback loops.  The open the story by talking about how those trailers you sometimes see parked...

A couple weeks ago I was in the San Francisco airport waiting for a flight to San Diego.  Then I stumbled across a machine of pure evil -- d...

I first learned about Gunnar Optiks computer glasses at PAX Prime in 2009 . Gunnar Optiks makes glasses designed for computer users.  They...

Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients can have a break with the present.  They can be convinced they are decades younger than they are and have ...

I just hit a goal that I didn't even know I had until about a week ago. I just got my new driver's license in the mail, which was a...

During the summer I commented on the drug Modafinil (Provigil) and its use in replacing sleep. Development in other sleep replacement drugs...

According to the Real Age website (I found the link on digg.com ) my real age is 29.2 (versus my actual age of 36) and my life expectancy i...

I planned to watch Heroes on Tivo at 2:00 AM tonight, but apparently, Tivo thinks it's crazy for people to watch TV that late, and told ...

In the current issue of Wired (15.10), columnist Clive Thompson talks about the recent decline human memory . He suggests that reason people...

Whatever you name these people related problems, they’re more likely to cause you trouble on your next assignment than all the design, imple...

Well, almost. Sleep-deprived groups ranging from truck drivers to the military have experimented with modafinil , marketed for nearly a deca...

I just learned there are actually 6 senses, rather than 5. There's a reasonably well-accepted sixth sense (or fifth and a half, at least...

I wake up as they wheel me into recovery, which at Stanford is a kind of fun house sideshow. People in various states of undress — many of u...