Maybe I’m late to report this craze, but a recent spam post tipped me off to “reborn dolls” listings on ebay - baby dolls made to look like hyper realistic babies. I Googled and found this site MBB Creative Doll that has the tag-line of: Art that Captures Life. I don’t really know how to [...]
Meet Big Dog, designed by Boston Dynamics for DARPA. One blogger called it “amazing”, I call it creepy. When I was young I used to fantasize about a future flourishing with robots in all shapes and sizes, but during these wartime years here in America I feel less comfortable with our military’s effort to sanitize [...]
In December 2001, Dean Kamen unveiled his latest invention, The Segway, a two wheeled battery powered scooter that can take people -umm- around the block and back? Not much more efficient than the other two wheeled invention called the bicycle. Many people still see them on the street or on TV and are befuddled by [...]
Bent Festival is back in NYC. This Friday through Sunday. Last year we caught Archangel Constantini (MX) bending it like a mad scientist. This year there is a whole new line up, including Aa (Big A Little a), who knew they were big on bending, either way they’re fun to watch.
For all those who don’t [...]
Screen grab of Britney Spears’ “Oops, I did it again” video. Watch it.
Just heard on a BBC report that the Beatles song “Across the Universe” is being literally beamed across the universe through NASA’s Deep Space Network. It’s aim? The hope that it’ll be intercepted by an alien life form on it’s route to star [...]
No they didn’t!!! David Pogue on the NYTimes has reviewed the iPhone via the musical genre. Beats the pants off of “The iphone is lousy, lets just harp on the issues everyone already knows about…” -that’s the equivalent of saying our president is doing a lousy job in Iraq- yeah, and? We’re still gonna take [...]
Before we left for Hong Kong and Taiwan last month, I was taking suggestions from my friends about what we should bring back from Asia. Being that most of the cool tech gadgets and apps are being used and sometimes even considered “over” by the time they reach the US, e.g. phone’s that can pick [...]
