Game Boy + iPod street art found in Barcelona. The QR code leads you to the Rémi Gaillard PacMan video.
Pic from my instagram account, my id is @daruma
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cldesignstudio reblogged enochliew
Mathilde by NU Architectuuratelier
Updating a traditional townhouse.
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iPod Nano - a missed opportunity x2 and why it shared stage with the iPhone
My first thought when I heard the rumor about that the iPod Nano was about to get bluetooth 4.0 - Apple is going to do something cool with this.
My first thought when I heard the rumor that the new iPods were about to be presented at the same event as the iPhone 5 - Wow, I was right for once, Apple really is going to cook up something cool with the small Nanos. Smartwatch functionality? Wireless music and podcasts syncing with iOS devices via Bluetooth? Something even smarter that a simple mind like mine can’t dream up?
It turns out I was wrong. Again. No wearable connected devices. No iPhone integration. But think about what an awesome iPhone accessory the iPod Nano could have been. It would have enabled Apple to: 1) Sell shitloads of Nanos and make even more money and 2) have one more curveball to throw at the iPhone 5 launch that maybe would have toned down some of the “Apple is so boring/stale”-criticism flooding the internet.
Me? I don’t want a smartwatch, I just want settings shortcuts in iOS.
But why DID Apple introduce the iPods at the iPhone 5 event? I just think it marks the iPod’s increasing insignificance on Apple’s bottom line. And that Apple believes it has a few more important launches left this year for which the company wants to maximise interest. So bottom line, the iPod event was piggybacked on the iPhone event because 1) the new line of iPods was ready and 2) Apple didn’t want to “wear down”/devaluate the value of its upcoming events by giving the iPods their own launch party. Instead the company presented them while every tech journalist on the planet were listening anyway.
Picture: Lunatik
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I just quoted Roger Ebert’s excellent New York Times op-ed about the Aurora shooting, but really, you should read the whole thing. The entire thing is quote-worthy.
Another key excerpt:
Should this young man — whose nature was apparently so obvious to his mother that, when a ABC News reporter called, she said “You have the right person” — have been able to buy guns, ammunition and explosives? The gun lobby will say yes. And the endless gun control debate will begin again, and the lobbyists of the National Rifle Association will go to work, and the op-ed thinkers will have their usual thoughts, and the right wing will issue alarms, and nothing will change. And there will be another mass murder.
That James Holmes is insane, few may doubt. Our gun laws are also insane, but many refuse to make the connection. The United States is one of few developed nations that accepts the notion of firearms in public hands. In theory, the citizenry needs to defend itself. Not a single person at the Aurora, Colo., theater shot back, but the theory will still be defended.
If anyone’s stance is really going to be that citizens need guns to protect themselves, it should be viewed that this idea failed yesterday in a way far worse than if guns were outlawed in this country. Nearly 100 people failed to use their gun rights to protect themselves. And 12 people have died as a result. A complete and utter failure of that right.
Of course, that right is actually preposterous. It’s 2012, not 1712.
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futurist-foresight reblogged abcstarstuff
Boston Dynamics Big Dog:
“BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics robots. It is a rough-terrain robot that walks, runs, climbs and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by an engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog has four legs that are articulated like an animal’s, with compliant elements to absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule; about 3 feet long, 2.5 feet tall and weighs 240 lbs.” - Boston Dynamics
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