These are my rants about what is happening in the world, technology, computing, and the Internet.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy
Peter Molyneux demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft's Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real 11-year-old, the virtual boy watches, listens and learns -- recognizing and responding to you.
Monday, August 23, 2010
OW2.0:Plastic to Oil Fantastic
From the video description: "The Japanese company Blest has developed one of the smallest and safest oil-to-plastic conversion machines out on the market today. It's founder and CEO, Akinori Ito is passionate about using this machine to change the way people around the world think about their plastic trash. From solving our landfill and garbage disposal issues to reducing our oil dependancy on the Middle East, his machine may one day be in every household across Japan.
While holding up a bag of trash, he states, "It's a waste to throw away, isn't it? This is a treasure.""
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Prototype Solar Roadways
The Solar Roadways project is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on. Co-founder Scott Brusaw has made some major steps forward since our first visit back in 2007, so we visited him again earlier this year for an exclusive update on the project, including the first ever video recorded of the Solar Roadways prototype! For more information visit http://www.solarroadways.com . This Solar Roadway project will be featured in the upcoming feature film by YERT - Your Environmental Road Trip. To learn more about YERT, visit http://yert.com.
Monday, August 02, 2010
Super Slow Motion
Filmed using a Photron SA1.1 high-speed camera. This camera is able to record 5,000 fps (frames per second) at high resolution and 650,000 fps in low resolution.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended
Space...the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, and this is how Star Trek should have ended!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Butterflies: Science On The Wing
What do butterflies, fiber optics and gyroids have in common. Its hard to explain, but it has the potential to makes better fiber optics cable. Listen to this except from an NPR podcast.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Toshiba libretto W100
Features of the Toshiba libretto W100:
- Run Windows 7 Home Premium
- Dual 7” diagonal multi-touch screens
- Weighs under two pounds
- Wireless-N and Bluetooth® v2.1
- Webcam
Monday, June 21, 2010
Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
Fora.TV Summary"Neuroscientist and fiction writer David Eagleman presents "Six Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization." Civilizations always think they're immortal, Eagleman says, but they nearly always perish, leaving "nothing but ruins and scattered genetics." It takes luck and new technology to survive. We may be particularly lucky to have Internet technology to help manage the six requirements of a durable civilization"
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright
Margaret Gould Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
TedTalk: William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer?
From TED.com: "William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game."
Monday, June 07, 2010
John Underkoffler points to the future of UI
Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
AVP Redemption (Fan Film Alien vs. Predator)
AVP:Redemption fan film made by me Alex A. Popov for the purpose of entertaining the fans of both , Alien and Predator franchises, and also to share my vision of what Alien VS Predator film should be. The total budget for this film was about $500 and over 2 years
Tesla Coils - Arc Attack - Doctor Who Theme Song (Makers Faire 2010 - San Mateo)
ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)
About the video: "Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman."
This video is nothing more then a social marketing tool itself, and I just another voice that is perpetuating it. Although if I didn't find it interesting, I would not post it. I am pretty sure that the statistics in it are inflated, but overall I still think it makes valid points even if they are sensationalized.
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