Gizmodo: How Ma Bell shelved the future for 60 years: “Why would company management bury such an important and commercially valuable discovery? What were they afraid of?”
Just another reason why monopolies are bad. Competition encourages innovation…
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The answer lies with copyright law…
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Gizmodo: 100 Naked Citizens: 100 Leaked Body Scans.
The system failed…
There’s video at the link. Next time you board a plane, you just might be heading towards 15 minutes of unintended fame…
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The trailer for Rockstar’s new game, L.A. Noire, and its incredible facial animations.
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Newsweek, 1995: The internet will never work for shopping.
Newsweek is out of touch, but that’s not exactly news…
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‘Placebo’ buttons, that is: Most “Close Door” Buttons Don’t Work, And Most Office Thermostats Are Fakes.
That’s always been my impression of ‘Close Door’ buttons…
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It’s come a long way since the days of the joystick…
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John Nolte: Bob Etheridge loses. New Media Wins.
Something similar happened here and here.
Citizen journalists for the win!
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Gizmodo: “Eat your heart out, Wolverine. The X-Men superhero won’t be the only one with metal fused into his skeleton if a new titanium foam proves suitable for replacing and strengthening damaged bones.”
Plus, some video: the book trailer for Night of the Living Trekkies at – where else – The Corner…
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You got GPS all over your shoes, dude: How they found and killed the bloodiest narcoterrorist in the world.
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Self-serve wine-filling stations coming to supermarkets.
Can you put beer in one of those? Now that’d be a party…
Via Consumerist.
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Scientists teach robots how to trick humans.
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Watch as Kodak tests early film footage in color.
Via Cinematical.
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WSJ: “The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.”
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A design for a rocket propelled chainsaw.
Probably not part of any of these lists, which are indeed chockfull of disaster-preparedness equipment.
H/T: Geekosystem.
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With this interactive video.
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How his fun short AT-AT Afternoon was made.
Via Comics Alliance.
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What would you do if you could travel back in time? “Grab all the modern technology I could find, take it to the late 70′s, superficially redesign it all to blend in, start a consumer electronics company…then sit back as I rake in billions, trillions, or even millions of dollars.”
We did seem to like faux-wood paneling a lot back in the 70′s.
Much more from the artist, at his blog.
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Looks like it should hold a lot of data, but looks can be deceiving.
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Celebrate the birthday of the LP with a very thorough slideshow.
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Meet Watson, a “question answering” machine from IBM, “able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution…and respond with a precise, factual answer.”
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Yes. But only at company-operated stores. Starting July 1.
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PayPal cuts off Pamela Geller and accuses her of running a “hate” site, but RevolutionMuslim gets to keep their PayPal account?
Read the updates towards the bottom…
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University of Pittsburgh Researcher says his filter separated oil from water in Gulf of Mexico tests:
He’s submitted his idea to the companies and government agencies coordinating the clean-up. Hopefully he’ll fare better than the Dutch government or Packgen.
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ABC News: Study finds movie theater 3D glasses unsanitary “but no more threatening than what you find on the arm rest, box of popcorn, or movie seats.”
Sounds like movie theaters themselves need a cleanup, then…
Via Cinematical.
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“Scientists are developing robots which can ‘dock’ with each other and fly together in a swarm.”
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Isn’t this technology awfully similar to this?
H/T: Insty
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Plus, 25 Years of The Goonies (with video of a deleted scene at the link!)
UPDATE: Working USB flash drive cufflinks. But how many nerds wear French-cuffed shirt these days?
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But at least a real, working hoverboard exists (like in Back to the Future, Part 2…almost) .
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Cinematical: Plagiarism, Piracy, and Personal Responsibility.
UPDATE: Related (and ironic) content: Warner Bros. studios has been sued for stealing anti-piracy technology.
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Wolf’s + autotune = something like this.
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A special effects how-to by Ed Driscoll.
Crap. Why didn’t I think of that? I had two blue screen shots in my short film and plenty of driving shots; but it never occurred to me to use blue screen in the driving shots – mostly because I didn’t have access to a soundstage or a garage big enough to hold car, crew, and lights. But Ed’s approach obviates the need for all that. Oh, well.
Green screen has been the standard for years now; and preferred to blue screen because there is no green in the average human skin tone, ensuring a cleaner composite shot than a blue screen would otherwise get you. What can I say? I’m old school…
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Engadget: “A team of researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California San Diego have determined that, with physical access to your car’s ECU, a hacker could ‘adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input’”.
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FCC to decide what you can or cannot record from your TV?
Hollywood getting its campaign donations’ worth…
Via Consumerist.
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Popular Science: Junior the Robot Car can slide park, stuntman style. Cool videos at the link.
Via Fast Company.
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Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon
album cover reproduced over London skies.
Awesome sight…
