Here’s a video of a remote-controlled robotic dragon that also breathes fire. Why? Because as scary as dragons seem in fantasy novels, now we finally know that their aerodynamics pass muster in the real world.
Rick Hamel, an …
Apps & Web
Glimpse: A Facebook-Powered Pinterest Clone Without the Human Feel
Pinterest, which lets you collect and share images and links from around the web, is quirky, addictive — and wildly popular. So it’s not surprising that it’s also proving to be influential. It sure influenced Glimpse, a new …
HomeOS: Microsoft Works on Bringing Smart Homes to the Masses
Pop quiz: What’s the easiest way to wire up your entire home for smartphone and tablet controls? Unless you’re quite tech-savvy, chances are you haven’t the slightest idea.
It’s a problem that Microsoft Research wants to solve …
Thoreau’s Walden: The Video Game
Get ready for some edge-of-your-seat 19th century transcendentalist action!
How the Software Industry Is Being Reborn
It seems like you can’t go anywhere in Silicon Valley without hearing about someone who’s making an app. Apps are all the rage these days and software engineering is one of the hottest jobs all over the world. But in the not too …
Dropbox Gets Automatic Photo Uploads, Offers 3 GB Incentive
We might just have a cloud storage feature war on our hands, folks.
Following this week’s launch of Google Drive and an overhauled Microsoft Skydrive, Dropbox is adding automatic photo uploads to its online storage service. …
How to Choose Between Cloud Storage Services like Google Drive and Dropbox
Cloud storage is in the spotlight this week with the launch of Google Drive and the relaunch of Microsoft’s Skydrive. Along with competitors such as Dropbox and SugarSync, you’ve now got lots of good choices for storing files …
Google Sells SketchUp (Wait, Google Sold Something?)
Google’s “spring cleaning,” which involves the company reassessing stuff that’s not core to its activities, continues. It’s selling SketchUp, a really nifty program for creating 3D models of buildings, to Trimble Navigation. …
Man Builds 1:6 Scale ‘Star Wars’ Arcade Game
While I certainly remember Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, my earliest memory of an arcade game is of the 1983 Atari game Star Wars. Now, a man going by the name of “Le Chuck” has built a 1:6 scale version of the classic game and put it …
Video: Wherein Songs Are Skipped by Chucking Stuff at a Poster on the Wall
Agency Republic, billing itself as “a digital creative agency based in Battersea, London” has cobbled together quite a digitally creative way to enable anyone in the office to skip over unwelcome songs that have been added to the …
Will Google Drive Snoop Inside Your Data? Google Needs to Be Clearer
Upload your private diary, novel manuscript, amateur movie or digitally crafted song to Google’s new Google Drive and it’s totally impervious to company tinkering, right? Not necessarily. In fact the way things are currently laid …
Flickr Gets Faster Drag-and-Drop Uploader, Larger Upload Limits
Remember Flickr? It was the site everyone used to store their photos on before Facebook and Instagram (now the same company) became the default locations for photos on the web.
Recently, however, Flickr has been taking steps …