Bill Buxton's "long nose of innovation" is the standard antidote to breakthrough mythology. A technology that seems to arrive overnight has almost always been gestating, quietly and invisibly, for decades — a long flat nose — before it reaches the steep cliff of adoption that everyone mistakes for the invention. The mouse took roughly thirty … Continue reading The Far Half of the Nose: What the Meta-Nose Can’t Compress
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Invisibility Sheets
"An Israeli tech company said it has developed a camouflage technology that makes soldiers on the battlefield virtually undetectable......The lightweight sheet is made out of a special thermal visual concealment (TVC) material, comprised of metals, polymers and microfibers. The material allows soldiers much more difficult to distinguish from nature, both with the naked eye and … Continue reading Invisibility Sheets
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