{"id":2377,"date":"2003-08-25T09:21:04","date_gmt":"2003-08-24T23:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2010-09-30T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:31:31","slug":"a-socially-useful-application-of-home-entertainment-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2377","title":{"rendered":"A socially useful application of home entertainment technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I have no doubt at all that my current line of work is far more socially useful than my previous employment as a government servant, I am still sometimes niggled by, what shall I say &#8230; perhaps a lack of\u00a0<em>gravity<\/em> in what I do. Sure, my aim is to guide people towards getting maximum value for their dollar in home entertainment equipment, but it isn&#8217;t exactly saving the world, or even saving lives.<\/p>\n<p>So it is somewhat heartening to read an article entitled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurepundit.com\/archives\/001597.html#001597\">CD Player Turned Into Bioassay Molecule Detection Instrument<\/a> over at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurepundit.com\/\">FuturePundit.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Scientists at the University of California at San Diego have adapted an inkjet printer and a CD player to make a scientific instrument that detects types of proteins molecules present in a solution &#8230;<\/span><span>Compared to the $100,000 price tag for a fluorescent protein chip reader &#8230; a CD player costs as little as $25.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I have no doubt at all that my current line of work is far more socially useful than my previous employment as a government servant, I am still sometimes niggled by, what shall I say &#8230; perhaps a lack &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}