Nathan Myhrvold

Modernist Cuisine, spanning six encyclopedic volumes of science-driven cooking techniques backed by unbelievable food photography, has proven to be the greatest, most gorgeous culinary work of our time. Then its little brother, Modernist Cuisine At Home, distilled a lot of the lessons into a single volume aimed at home cooks. But go to Amazon or to Apple's iBookstore, and you won't see the eBook versions of either Modernist Cuisine release. Which is why the brand's first iPad app--a digital rendition of Modernist Cuisine At Home--is a fairly big deal.

Need an imagination? There’s an app for that. Or soon will be. Among the wackier wheezes worked up lately to improve on plain old Mark One printed text is a patent application filed by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, and a bunch of other Washington State dreamers to autoconvert text to video. The application covers: “A system [...]

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