Voice phone calls to be free within years: eBay CEO – Yahoo! News SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – In a few short years, users can expect to make telephone calls for free, with no per-minute charges, as part of a package of services through which carriers make money on advertising or transaction fees, eBay’s chief executive […]
Read more "eBay talks about its acquisition of Skype"from New York Times Meet the Life Hackers By CLIVE THOMPSON Published: October 16, 2005 In 2000, Gloria Mark was hired as a professor at the University of California at Irvine. Until then, she was working as a researcher, living a life of comparative peace. She would spend her days in her lab, enjoying the […]
Read more "NYT piece on “life hacking”"The video IPod, of course, is a miserable idea. I’m one of those who believe people associate certain types of entertainment with certain viewing habits/places — one of the reasons downloaded movies are grifted by far less than 1% of the population, and the reason XBoxes and PS2’s bury PC games in sales. The flat-screen G5 is the real darling here, engineered to match our established viewing habits. Only 20 inches, though? Wonder what’ll come out for Christmas, hmmmm?
Some have e-mailed me to tell me that my 4th Generation Media has arrived. This is not technically true (and hey, I should be getting rich from this, right? Where are my filthy monies?). In my formulation, 4gM is a media, not a distribution, philosophy. To recap our central metaphor:
Read more "Rogers weighs in on the video iPod and how 4GM it is"For all the years of speculation and waiting, Apple have finally released the video iPod. They kinda had to though, given how good the PSP is for watching content. They couldn’t lose out to Sony, after all. 😉 from Bloomberg.com: U.S. Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs introduced a version […]
Read more "*finally*, video iPod released!!!"A review of Channel Zero by Brian Wood
Read more "exciting new-to-me sequential art – Channel Zero by Brian Wood"What podcasts I’m listening to now..
Read more "podcast reviews"Trend-spotting has, in essence, become just another trend. Consequently, the most successful trend forecasters are repositioning themselves as something more than mere arbiters of taste. They’re now social scientists with a hipster edge. That’s because it’s no longer enough to be aware of “sext messaging” or video blogs or the drive-in movie revival. The real money and prestige are now bestowed on those who can translate the cultural hieroglyphics and the “whys” behind these blips.
Read more "Fads are so yesterday.."Robots Race Across Mojave for $2M Prize – Yahoo! News PRIMM, Nev. – Three robotic vehicles cruised past the finish line Saturday in a Pentagon-sponsored race across the rugged Mojave desert, giving scientists hope that robots could one day wage battles without endangering soldiers. … The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, plans […]
Read more "Robots Race Across Mojave for $2M Prize"via Spectrum IEEE Rise of the Body Bots .. Today, in Japan and the United States, engineers are finally putting some practical exoskeletons through their paces outside of laboratories. But don’t look for these remarkable new systems to bust bricks or spew lightning. The very first commercially available exoskeleton, scheduled to hit the market in […]
Read more "functional exoskeletons coming soon?"Biologically inspired by the common carp, the new designs can avoid objects and swim around a specially designed tank entirely of their own accord.
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