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History of Computing Devices

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2008-01-25 16:13:28 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Neatorama has a fun overview of the early history of computing, discussing famous computing devices like the Antikythera Mechanism and Babbage's Difference Engine, as well as ones I'd heard of but never actually seen, like Leibniz' Stepped Reckoner. Leibnizs design used a special type of gear called the Stepped Drum or Leibniz wheel, a...
 
Tags: leibniz wheel, leibniz, reckoner, neatorama, difference engine, fun overview, square roots, machine, kerry redshaw
 
 
 
 
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A History of Early Computing, Warning: Learning is Involved [Giz Educates]

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2008-01-25 20:00:52 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...Neatorama have put together a good semi-brief history of the world of early computing for anyone interested in learning a thing or two. By the way, when I say early, I mean really earlythe saga begins with a 35,000-year-old baboon fibula that early bushmen were using as a makeshift calculator. Admittedly, there are a few glaring omissions,...
 
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A History of Early Computing, Warning: Learning is Involved [Giz Educates]

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2008-01-26 01:00:52 by posted by Pantha in
...Neatorama have put together a good semi-brief history of the world of early computing for anyone interested in learning a thing or two. By the way, when I say early, I mean really earlythe saga begins with a 35,000-year-old baboon fibula that early bushmen were using as a makeshift calculator. Admittedly, there are a few glaring omissions,...
 
Tags: 000-year-old baboon fibula, earlythe saga begins, neatorama, semi-brief history, makeshift calculator, omissions, world, sacrifices, admittedly
 
 
 
 
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Tech Company Logos Over the Years [Logos]

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2008-02-07 19:00:41 by Jason Chen in Gizmodo
Neatorama has a great feature on the evolution of tech company logos, from the really stylized and arty logos of the early 1900s (for companies that have been around that long), to the colorful and shiny Web 2.0 logos of today. A pretty crazy example is Japan's Canon, which was originally named Kwanon, after the Buddhist Bodhisattva of Mercy. A...
 
Tags: logos, tech company logos, company, arty logos, evolution belongs, evolution, neatorama, named kwanon, shiny web
 
 
 
 
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Ancient Nerds - History of Computing & The Earliest Calculating Devices

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2008-02-08 11:32:00 by Watchismo in Watchismo Times - A reliquary of obscure timepieces from bygone eras as well as the cutting-edge des
Neatorama .com has a fantastic overview of the history of computing with a special focus of early mechanical calculating devices--> LINK Some examples from the feature The 2000 year old Antikythera Mechanism , the worlds oldest computing device (and 1000 years more advanced than comparable mechanisms). Only discovered 100 years ago in a...
 
Tags: digital calculator watches, calculator, watches, basic mechanism, mechanism, history, decrypt coded messages, digital, blaise pascals pascaline
 
 
 
 
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Cuttlefish learns in the Embryo!

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2008-06-09 18:44:37 by max in zedomax.com
...neatorama - bbc Animals , basse normandy , bbc , Cool , crabs , cuttlefish , dickel , eggs , embryo , Fish , living organism , neatorama , normandy france , prey , scientists , tanks , translucent egg , visual images
 
Tags: cuttlefish, cuttlefish embryos, egg, visual, embryos, spot potential prey, translucent egg, visual images, prey
 
 
 
 
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East Village gumball machine dispenses ideas

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2008-07-11 14:55:27 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
Neatorama through the proxy of a reader located this bubblegum machine in the East Village that has been savvily modded to dispense ideas for fifty cents apiece, each absolutely guaranteed to be actionable or your money back. Buy a moose, it might tell you, or Invent a Jump-To-Conclusions mat! Start a fire! Get a circumcision! Kidnap your...
 
Tags: ideas, east village, gumball machine, fifty cents apiece, dispense ideas, idea, idea dispenser, bubblegum machine, subliminal instructions
 
 
 
 
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Original Back to the Future Hoverboard on auction for $30K min!

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2008-07-24 23:41:22 by max in zedomax.com
...neatorama Other fun stuff on Hoverboards How to Make a PC Fan Hoverboard on Zedomax Racing Homemade DIY Hoverboards Download latest version of Flash to view video Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Roboman Hoverboard probably comes closest to concept of a Back-to-the-Future Hoverboard How to make a Hoverboard DIY Real...
 
Tags: hoverboard, future hoverboard, fan hoverboard, posts, hoverboard posts, roboman hoverboard, roboman, auction, cool diy hoverboard
 
 
 
 
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Original Google Storage Server Made with Legos!

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2008-08-04 17:11:45 by max in zedomax.com
...neatorama - stanford Brought to you by: Zedomax.com Original Google Storage Server Made with Legos! algorithms , basement floor , Computer , Consumer , Cool , darpa , Design , designers , digital library project , Educational , Entertainment , Funny , Gadgets , gates , gbytes , Google , Hard Disk , information sciences , larry-page , lego ,...
 
Tags: google, google pagerank patent, google yahoo, storage, google video, google pageranks, google party jet, storage server, original storage assembly