15
2003
Sony’s QRIO Robot
Building on their AIBO techology, SONY decided to create a ‘partner’ that talks to you and plays with you: the QRIO robot walks on two legs, recovers from falls, dances, recognizes people’s faces and voices, and talks.
UPDATE: New movies showing the QRIO running, throwing a ball and dancing in unison.
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22
2003
PVRblog
I’ve been reading Matt’s PVRblog from the beginning (way, way back in July), and his recent postings on TiVo’s “Apple problem” are interesting, mostly because I’ve had the same thoughts cross my mind. I definitely get the impression that the folks at TiVo care just as much about doing things right as Apple does, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see the general public settle for a “good enough” solution from another vendor (i.e. Microsoft).
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22
2003
BoysStuff
Kinda like a UK version of Think Geek, BoysStuff has some fun toys – with categories like desktop gadgets, flying stuff and radio control. I especially like the Twister duvet cover. It’s definitely not just for boys.
21
2003
Squirt Gun Museum
Aale van der Veen has been collecting waterguns for over eighteen years now, and there are more than a 1000 different items in his collection over at the
Digital Watergun Museum.
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11
2003
JavaScript Search
Looking for JavaScript for handling mouseovers or cookies? JavaScript 2 claims to search the top JavaScript libraries with over 8,000 free scripts.
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27
2003
Wish I had this when I was a kid…
Wow! I had no idea you could buy liquid nitrogen on the web. There’s a long list of stuff I’d like to freeze, just to see what happens. I ran across this bit of information while reading about using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream.
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11
2003
James Gleick on Spam
Another one of my favorite authors, James Gleick (whose works include Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier, and his latest – a biography of Isaac Newton
) doesn’t update his site frequently, but when he does it’s usually worth reading (I especially like his 2000 article Patently Absurd in which he discusses the breakdown of the United States patent system). His most recent article, A Plague on E-Mail takes a look at spam.
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07
2003
Blogging from Space
NASA astronaut Ed Lu is writing his weblog while stationed aboard the International Space Station. There’s even a page where you can send a question to Ed or his crewmate, Russian Cosmonaut , a question.
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04
2003
How tp Photograph Fireworks
From the New York Institute of Photography: How to photograph fireworks.
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01
2003
PostScript Web Server
Anders Karlsson has created a web server written in PostScript. Obviously a Swede with too much free time on his hands!
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