Category: Emerging Technology
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This movie, I want to see, if it’s ever made.
I’m a huge Portal (and Portal 2) fan, so when I saw this fan-made production making the rounds of the social media nets, I had to check it out. Wow. Watch the HD version, full screen, with the audio cranked.
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A spacy new way to browse music on your iPad
Listening to music on your iPad is usually a visually-sparse affair. Load up your player, navigate to your library, and select the muisc. Play, and do other things. Not any more… Outta this world! Planetary is the new (and free!) app from Bloom Studios that gives new meaning to navigating through your music collection. To quote the…
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Libraries are dead. Long live the Librarian!
I love it when coincidence and synergy lead to a blog post, this post in fact. In a post earlier this week, Seth Godin lead us through the history of the Library and the Librarian. In his post, he eventually settled on the somewhat alarming concept that the Library was basically dead: Wikipedia and the huge databanks…
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50 year old infographic shows NASA’s first manned forray into space
NASA’s Image of the Day Gallery provided this cool infographic showing Alan Shepard’s brief flight into space — America’s first. It appeared magically on my desktop courtesy of John’s Background Switcher — a cool windows desktop wallpaper application that manages and displays many image sources.
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Disaster Tech
Like many of you, I’ve been watching the events in Japan continue to unfold, and perhaps thinking to myself, “I’m glad something that devastating didn’t happen here”. But what if it did, would you be prepared? I like to think that I am, but sadly, I’m probably not. Yes, I have a first aid kit, and I’ve…
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Another way to count the vote
Canada isn’t the only nation having an election in May. Folks in the United Kingdom go to the polls on May 5th — and when they do, they’ll not only be selecting their leaders, they’ll be voting on a referendum to change they way votes are counted. And this has the chance to really make…
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Unleash your inner Spielberg
I’m sure all of us have, at one point or another, dreamed of releasing that movie director deep inside, and making our own movie, complete with music and special effects. Well, if your dream is to make one that hearkens back to the golden days of silent cinema, then I’ve got an inexpensive app for you.…