Timothy N. Hornyak: Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots
Hornyak offers a detailed overview of Japanese robot development tracing the history of robotics all the way from the 1600's through today's modern, state-of-the-art wonders like Asimo.
Jennifer Ouellette
'Black Bodies and Quantum Cats' is the type of book that inspired me to study physics as a child and enabled me to develop a life long love of science and technology.
Synthetic Worlds : The Business and Culture of Online Games
Who would have guessed that the modal demographic for online gamers is 40+ year old women? Or that billions of real dollars change hands between gamers as they buy and sell virtual items?
Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
The Search
How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Satisfaction
The Science of Finding True Fulfillment - Listened to the author being interviewed on the NPR Science Friday show via podcast. Very impressive.
Do You Speak American?
A great and often insightful exploration of the 'American' language
Podcasting Hacks
Podcasting is revolutionizing the way we communicate and even the way we think
The Man Behind the Microchip
Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley - An excellent and extremely well written exploration into Robert Noyce and the industry he created that changed the world
I’m rapidly becoming addicted to watching video-clips online, and when I run across anything related to kickbiking or cycling it immediately catches my attention. A good example is the video popular clip below that was posted on Google Video without any explanation of the where it was taken or why.
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Some of the best work done by creative agencies never sees the light of day. The classic 1984 Apple Macintosh SuperBowl commercial almost met with that fate. A more recent example, strangely enough from Apple's primary competition, is the Xbox 306 television ad that Microsoft decided not to release. It's easy to understand why they felt that way (see video below), but never the less, the production values are amazing.
Mac fanatics fans have always viewed Steve Jobs as a combination of Luke Skywalker, Obie Wan, and Yoda. But now he’s lead the Jedi over to the Dark Side, and it’s been captured on video. . .
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Technology changes the way we think, act, and live. I was reminded of that fact last night when Japan celebrated the first few opening seconds of 2006.
If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then a video must be worth at least 10,000. Over the past six months we’ve had more and more opportunities to include video clips as a key part of our blog content – to the point that we recently started a separate blog just to document all the video clips.
I do a lot of videocasting, both for personal use on our family blog, and for my more mainstream Robot's Dreams weblog. I use my Sony Cybershot F717 digital camera to capture most of the videos, but get frustrated because I can't hold it still enough. Spending thousands for a Steadicam rig was definitely out of the question, but for under $50 I think I've found a workable alternative. . .
Robot Addict Says-
We've been spending a lot of time recently implementing video clips on our Robot's Dreams website, and they seem to be incredibly popular. Website traffic has zoomed, visitors are spending 3 times longer on the site, and our weblog revenues are up dramatically.
If you had the choice, would you rather read some text, listen to some audio, or watch a video clip? If you're like most people, you'll pick the video clip over every other option. People like to watch video. They prefer action.
And, with technology available today, anyone can create, edit, and publish video clips on their blogs.
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