Remember that Mambo Number Five-loving robot we’ve posted a while ago? Well, it seems that the video we’ve featured back then was taking place at the third Austrian Hexapod Dancing Championship, and we’ve got some additonal footage of the event for your tonight!
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you’ve been on the Internet for any time at all, you might remember something called “The Venice Project.” Essentially, the founders of Kazaa and Skype tried to come up with a way to bring television to the Internet in a peer-to-peer network that meshed with what the content providers […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] In a bit of a surprising (yet not so surprising) move, Apple may be releasing a more economical iPhone for sale in Walmarts around the country. This rumor comes from Kaufman Brothers, a technology market analyst group that believes a cheaper, lighter iPhone is “inevitable.” The specifics are, of course, […]
The Tilted Twister is a geek trifecta. It’s 1) a robot, 2) made from LEGO Mindstorms kits, and 3) solves a Rubik’s cube in a delightfully geeky manner. I could watch this all day! Just place the scrambled cube on Tilted Twister’s turntable. An ultrasonic sensor detects its presence and starts to read the colors […]
Ok, maybe you’ve seen this one somewhere on the Web, or maybe not, but we’re posting it anyways, just in case you missed it. [Via Holy Taco]
We’ve already written about this guy in the past. Remi Gaillard is a renowned French prankster, who, it seems, never managed to get out of his rebellious teen past. Last time, Mr. Gaillard wore a Kangaroo suit and caused all sorts of mischief upon the French population, and now, he tries to reenact a real-life […]
We’ve posted this about two years ago while we were hosted at blogger.com, but since it just got updated with new data and visuals, we thought that it was worth sharing again. Shift Happens: Globalization and the Information Age is a video that shows how information evolves around the globe as time flies by.
In the following video presentation, General Motors’s VP of R&D, Larry Burns, previews cool next-gen car design: sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen — and pump energy back into the electrical grid when they’re idle.
For those of you who are interested, ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley has posted a fairly detailed list of the upcoming changes that will be included with Windows Vista SP2. In addition to all previously released security updates, the new service pack will add some additional features to Vista such as native Blu-Ray support and a new […]
The Sci-Fi Channel has opted to pick up the Battlestar Galactica prequel, ‘Caprica’, as a 20-hour series, including the 2-hour pilot. The pilot was originally planned as a movie and has already been shot, and fans eager to see it are now going to have to wait until the 2010 debut of the series. Production […]