In the late 80’s I remember seeing many television concepts designed to engage the user. Remember Smell-O-Vision? Designers recognized interactivity was the future but they couldn’t foresee the advanced software and hardware solutions we have today. Check out MetaMirror, a concept software platform that enables you to access content relative to the show you’re watching. [...]
Chappies wrappers to replace text books for foreseeable future
PRETORIA. “Children don’t read books anymore; but they do still chew Chappies,” said Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, after it was announced that public school text books are to be replaced by Chappies bubblegum wrappers next year. “We in the department of basic education understand that books are full of facts, but so are Chappies [...]
Best Buy CTO tweets RocketFish-branded tablet pics
We can’t say we’re all that surprised that Best Buy’s planning to start stocking tablets, but we are slightly shocked that its CTO Robert Stephens uploaded some pics of a RocketFish-labeled slate and blasted them out over Twitter earlier today. Beyond the shot above and the one after the break, we don’t know much about [...]
Former HP CEO Mark Hurd rewarded with a $40m severance
Worried that former HP CEO Mark Hurd might not know what to do with himself after getting caught falsifying expense reports to hide girl #2 and being forced to resign? Don’t be: ol’ Mark’s getting a $12,224,693 severance payment in exchange for agreeing not to sue HP. Yep, Mark Hurd just got $12 million in [...]
Automotive X-Prize: Finals Stage begins, Edison2 remains only team that can win mainstream class, $5 million
This week, the Finals Stage of the Automotive X-Prize finally begins and, as we found our recently, only one team has any hope of driving away with the $5 million mainstream prize. That team is Edison2, which has two cars still competing in the category, both versions of the Very Light Car we first met [...]
Happy Birthday Mr. Potter!
Happy Birthday Meryl!
today is … my birthday!
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YouTube Grabber
Recently, I was looking for a facility to download the .flv files from YouTube and watch them on my system … which involved a FireFox plugin (three of which didn’t work) and a .flv player Today, I came across YouTube Grabber, a nifty little application that downloads and converts the YouTube .flv to .mpeg format! [...]
winamp …
Right … i have been musicless for the past two weeks again … why? cause winamp wouldnt load my music into the library … why? *shrug* It loaded in the playlist … but not library … so i got tense – today – uninstalled and re-installed older one … loaded library … perfect – upgraded [...]