[Robotgroup] I'm on Boing Boing... for cables...?

[Andre Lamothe]

This is funny, but semi-serious. My friend sellam ismail that runs the 
vintage computer festival and vintage tech has the world's largest private 
computer collection and book collection. And one of his biggest problems is 
cable tangling, he has thousands of cables of every kind you can imagine and 
he has had to actually "study" what makes cables tangle. Put two cables in a 
box, etc. what happens? Anyway, although comic in this venue, cable tangling 
and similar processes are very important in mixing and DNA recombination and 
mitosis,etc. I just read a paper that someone emailed me (from this group, 
or somewhere) about scientists that all they do all day long is cable 
tangling experiments. And after reading, some of their results are 
counterintuitive like what you think makes things tangle doesn't and what 
you wouldn't think tangles does :)

But, this would be fun to watch since I bet the people doing it are VERY 
serious about it :)

Andre'



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edwin Wise" <edwin at simreal.com>
To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] I'm on Boing Boing... for cables...?



On 7 Feb 2008, at 11:07 AM, Vern Graner wrote:

> http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/06/to-do-in-la-this-wee-1.html
>
> Huh? Ok.. this is just gettin weird now...

Competitive cable untangling!?!?!?!?!? Yeah, that's weird.

Do you have your own cheering section Vern?

Edwin!
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Edwin Wise, Rogue Technologist
Simulated Reality Systems, LLC
www.simreal.com



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