This is really scary and you probably shouldn’t watch it if you have trouble sleeping. Like I did. Super-interesting nonetheless.
It’s ok though. If you do have trouble sleeping after watching the video, you can download the iPhone app, Sleep Cycle. Pretty much the coolest app I’ve so far used and the [more…]
Check out this collection of illustrations from a Russian children’s book entitled, Hello, I’m A Robot. The book was written by Stanislav Zigunenko and the illustrations were created by E. Benyaminson. Published in 1989, right around when the Soviet Union was crumbling, which might inform some of these designs. It doesn’t really [more…]
Back in 1924, futurists had designs for a radio-controlled robot police force. It’s odd to me that police robots were never pursued in any large capacity. Seems like a perfect use for a robot. A robo… cop. Give me a radio-controlled police tank or something, anything. They have autonomous killer [more…]
Bullets are mesmerizing. Especially in slow-mo. Found this on Kottke.org. 10 minutes of bullets shot at things and set to trance music. Captured at 1,000,000 frames per second. I bet you watch the whole thing.
Anyone else think two-way mirrors are made of magic? Really. How do they do that?!
It is time for an alternative to toilet paper. Too many trees have perished for us to wipe our filthy asses. The thought hit me on New Year’s Day. Seemed like it was a time for new beginnings. I wouldn’t have such a problem if toilet paper were recyclable. But [more…]
What a sight to see this morning. As I was walking from the subway to my office, I saw a bunch of grizzly, hard-hat clad, construction workers gathered around in a circle. Sweating and cursing and doing what real men do.
For some reason they had congregated under the very same scaffolding [more…]
Ever notice that whenever you call a doctor’s office or a support line or any place were they have an automated robot answering system, you always have to “listen carefully because the menu options have recently changed”. I’ve never called at just the right time when the menu options have been sitting stagnant for [more…]
Well I finally took the bait and got an iPhone. As expected, I’ve fallen in love with it quite fully. When you have the world at your fingertips it becomes your oyster. And then you eat it. Eat the world.
Wordpress, the software that runs Miabi Films, has an accompanying iPhone app that [more…]
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