Samsung Smart WIndow debuts at CES.
I am buying all of them. ALL OF THEM. Of course, the software will probably suck…
The Coming War on General Purpose Computation by Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow.
Way more interesting and relevant to our lives than the title lets on.
How modern life fakes evolved psychological fitness cues and leads us collectively down a path self-destruction.
Also, something about aliens.
MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer Kit
This would make a great last-minute gift, if only it didn’t take 4-5 weeks to ship. Either way, I’d totally go in on this with someone.
NYC 5 Boro 2011 - Time Lapse
I was a total pro and forgot all but one 16gb memory card, so it ends just as we enter Central Park. It was my first time with a camera, apparently. Done with a GoPro HD Hero & handlebar mount.
Google's driverless car.
Absolutely incredible. My robotics professor in college had been working on one for most of her professional career and she thought we were decades away. And yet, here it is.
Chain of Fools.
Someone started at Windows 1.0 and upgraded through every major iteration of Windows, noting the effects.
Power Mac G5 OS question
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Verizon Press Conference
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Philadelphia Eagles Go Green
The team plans to add wind turbines and solar panels to the stadium, generating more power than the team uses.
Apple TV + Vuze
Anyone who enjoys television should really think about the combination of these two things. In one hand, you have a teeny tiny little box that sits next to your television that streams content from any iTunes-running computer in your house and plays it on your TV. In the other, you’ve got a bittorrent application with built-in transcoding for any device type you want. Which means, essentially, you don’t have to worry about all that video codec/importing bullshit.
Essentially, you google a torrent for a season or episode of a show you like, you download the torrent file and open it in Vuze and when it’s done, you just drag the finished torrent over to the little iTunes icon in Vuze’s sidepanel. It’ll ask if you want to transcode for an iPad, an iPhone, a bunch of other gadgets, or an Apple TV. And then you go have a sandwich. Later, when you sit down on your couch and pick up the teeny, tiny three button perfection that is the Apple TV remote and browse over to TV Shows… there’s the stuff you just downloaded.
At last, Gos and I will finally finish watching Dead Wood, and start watching Mad Men, The Wire, Twin Peaks, and countless other shows we’ve missed. We’ve got a comfy couch and many blankets. These are good times to have bad sinus infections.
Making Future Magic: light painting with the iPad
Using long exposures & residual light from iPads to create amazing innovations in stop-motion animation – there is so much going on here.
DVD "Backups"
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To hell with E-Ink. THIS is exciting.
And, I think, the biggest reason to be excited about the iPad (or, at least, the future the iPad represents).
The Eyewriter
The Eyewriter is a device that uses open source software and normal over the counter technology (a disassembled PS3 Eye camera) to let Tony be able to get his artwork shown to millions of people.
