Anthony Jacobs, founder and president of Perspective Aerials, found a new cheaper way to take aerial shots. The trick? A radio-controlled quadrocopter.
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ThinkGeek.com a320 Pocket Retro Game Emulator Review
Think back to your childhood. If you were a geek who was born in the late ’70s like I was, what are some of your most cherished memories? Riding your bike? Maybe a little. Thanksgiving in Fargo? Absolutely not. Nintendo Entertainment System, SEGA Master System, SEGA Genesis, and Super Nintendo? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
For many …
Roomba Creators Create Robot That Is Gross and Squashy
Basically it’s an alpha version of the T-1000:
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“Each cell is filled with a jammable slurry.”
Mmmmm … jammable slurry …
(Via io9)
The Tech Industry and the Tablet: A Sick Love Story
Back in the day there used to be this thing called Comdex. It was a huge technology trade show that happened in Las Vegas in November. Every year all the tech journalists would go out there, walk the show floor all day, file their stories at midnight, then go out and lose money at Binion’s and expense blue curacao drinks at Steven …
Pixel Qi’s Killer Display is the Future of E-Reading
Mary Lou Jepsen just popped into town from Taiwan, and brought along a few prototypes of her company’s new displays with her. So I went over to her houseboat for a quick visit this morning. I’m pretty excited: This could be the magic bullet for the e-reader market—at least for the next few years.
Windows 7? I’m Not Through Hating Vista Yet!
There appears to be some kind of pan-industry collusion going on in the tech world, whereby nothing interesting can happen, ever. MacWorld was pretty ho-hum, and Ballmer’s keynote at CES last night was mighty drab as well. (A true technology journalist would have written that it “failed to excite.”) The only thing that stuck with me is …
Top MacWorld 2009 Expo Rumors
New iPod Shuffle to weigh 6 pounds and only hold one song – but it is a really, really great song.
Pixar’s new movie: “Bill Gates, The Boy Who Showers With His Bathing Suit On”
Apple has purchased Infocom, and is getting back into text-based, interactive fiction. New “even-textier” versions of Zork to be released in 2011.
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Mac OS X: Leopard Is My King-Size Bed
I have Leopard. Have had for a few days now. But I also have a colossal deadline hanging over me, in the form of Time‘s Best Inventions issue. So I’ll plan on running another in my “The Last Review” series next week. Meantime I’ll perform the most important service a blogger can serve: linking to the roundups of the reviews. Apple 2.0 …
iPod Touch: The Last Review
Photo courtesy of Apple
Whenever a new product comes out there’s a massive rush by the media to get the first review up. Which makes sense, because we-the-media are like that, but it’s also kinda lame, because everybody knows you have to live with a gadget for a while to truly grok its tiny electronic soul. That’s why I imagine a series
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Bill Gates, the Early Years: Damn, This Thing Works!
I’m going to post a lengthy excerpt here from the conversation I had with Bill Gates earlier this week, because, well, I have so much of it, and it kind of works as this wonderfully absorbing dramatic monologue about where Microsoft came from. This is him essentially telling the story of how he and Paul Allen figured out that writing …
Art Inspired by Video Games
Kotaku has a report from the opening of a gallery show devoted to I Am 8-Bit, a collection (and book) of art inspired by classic video games. Apparently Joust is extra-inspirational, since it’s heavily represented.
On the whole the art isn’t amazingly great, but it’s kind of heartwarming to see video games get connected up with …