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The robots are coming

Absolutely fascinating to see how far Boston Dynamics has taken the independent, untethered robot. The agility, speed and accuracy are incredible. Watch how the ‘bot balances when it picks up… [more]

Checking out Dropbox Paper

Dropbox has sent us all a Valentine. If you have the app installed, you probably got an email or two from them about their new collaboration product, Dropbox Paper. So,… [more]

When just one company controls what we see and hear

Seth Godin has written such a clear take on the issue of net neutrality that I was just gonna paste the whole thing here so you wouldn’t have to click… [more]

Quadcopters + Cirque = Creativity

“No CGI used or needed” says the title at the end of this beautiful little video. It’s more Cirque du Soleil magic. There’s probably no company on earth that concentrates … [more]

Scrapheap Symphony from Brother

I think the ending is just a little anti-climactic, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, so to speak. Take a look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d837riy56Ug&feature=player_embedded… [more]

iMac design evolution

Just a quick visual geek post. What a beautiful set of objects. I think it’s so Interesting to see the “uplift” of the back of the 1998 and 2000 models… [more]

A trillion frames a second

You’ve seen photos of a bullet passing through an apple, right? Light itself is a million times faster. But now Ramesh Raskar and MIT Media Lab have invented a… [more]

Where’s Google heading Now and why should we care?

Ed Dale is an Australian internet marketing expert, a prolific emailer and blogger, and a predictor of the direction of All Things Web. He’s just posted an insightful article called:… [more]

Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh in 1984

What a moment to have captured on video. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that this was the single defining event that established our new world of technology.… [more]

Time-lapse space shuttle video

Some things have to go in my blog because they are just so cool. This time-lapse video of the space shuttle Discovery is one of ’em. I love how beat-up… [more]