How NPR Killed the Radio Star
Voice-activated app suggests broadcast isn't long for this world
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Christopher Mims
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I’m a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review. Until recently I blogged the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist. I report for Wired and Scientific American, and I’ve got projects cooking for The BBC, The Atlantic and Smithsonian.
Lately I’ve been helping friends launch an experiment in alternate funding models for science and environment-focused media, called MajorPlanet.
In another life I was a crayfish neuroscientist specializing in functional and anatomical studies via Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Christopher Mims's Stories
Gaming Tablet Suggests New Form Factor
Project Fiona is the first glimmer of true innovation in non-Apple tablets
App Ruins Your iPad by Running Windows on It
OnLive streams apps to tablets rather than running them locally
Electronics Makers Have Worst Labor Practices of Any Industry, Says Report
Ira Glass resurrects a debate about treatment of workers at Foxconn.
Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces
Researchers show that they can make more efficient use of the airwaves than previously thought. But now Congress has to notice.
Robotic Confucius Disturbs, Provokes
Artist Zhang Huan unleashes an uncanny rendering of China's rediscovered spiritual ancestor
Cubelets Are Modular Programming in Meatspace
An unusual marketing scheme for the Lego of robotics.
Microphone Turns Any Surface into Touch Interface
Trees, desks, bus stops, balloons and more are transformed into interfaces.
Mims's Bits's Greatest Hits for 2011
Eleven stories that enraged and enlightened
Tout's Analytics Hold Up a Mirror to Email Behaviors
Quantifying the daily crush of email will make you want to write fewer of them.
