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WTP 262: Moon crash, Peruvian fog nets, Nobel Prize in physics, and Trongs!

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I’ve said it before, and you keep forcing me to say it again: the technology podcast listeners are, without much doubt, one of the most interesting, passionate and engaged group of folks I’ve ever had the pleasure of speaking with. The show, as I am fond of saying, is as much yours as it is mine. Over the past few months, I have realized that you, the listeners, are quickly becoming the stars of the show. We had Vicente, who draws GPS Atari art by riding his bikes through the streets of San Francisco, and we had Brett, who set me straight on the computing history behind Vicente’s art. A number of you have written in to tell me about the crazy, and wonderfully mundane, places you’ve listened to the podcast. Remember Dave, who put WTP in his earbuds as he cycled (motor) across South America? Or Gabor, who gave us the great idea about the Embrace thermoregulator? So, I think it’s official — this is now an ongoing part of the show. And it should be. And so this week, WTP listener Eric Zimmermann, an inventor who came to inventing after, literally, a near-death experience, talks about his latest invention: Trongs!

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We’ve also got great stories on NASA’s LCROSS mission to search for water/ice in the craters of the moon, and about efforts to harvest water in Peru using fog nets. And we’ll also give a technological nod to Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith; Kao for his work with fiber-optics, and Boyle and Smith for their work on the imaging semi-conductor circuit, or CCD.

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