Archives for the 'Life with Technology' Category
Amazing Presentation by Randy Pausch
Inspiring presentation about childhood dreams by Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor who loved technology, specifically virtual reality.
Andrew Keen Talks about “The Cult of the Amateur”
Andrew Keen talks about the Internet, Web 2.0, expressing interesting points of view (he says for example that today’s Internet is killing our culture).
Ms. Dewey, A Different Search Engine
Ms. Dewey is a search engine that plays prerecorded movie clips of a funny female actress who entertains you while searches are being performed. Excellent!
uWink: Great Restaurant for Techies
uWink is a cool restaurant located in Los Angeles, California. In this video you can get to know the place. But there are more videos at their website. Their slogan: “Come for the food, stay for the fun”.
If A Chatroom Was A Real Thing…
Interesting video about what could happen if a chatroom was real…
Warning: it might be disgusting for some people…
Google Maps Street View
A great new tool explained in a video:
Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Together
It is a pleasure listening to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in this joint interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Bill and Steve talk about a lot of topics: the past, the present, the future, their relationship, mobile devices, Apple and Microsoft, and so on.
Here we include a video with the highlights of the […]
Excellent Website To Create Signs Online
Some time ago we discovered a website to create McDonalds signs.
Today we present a useful website to create many more types of signs: RedKid.Net
In this page you can create a sign with an iPod, and at the same page you may find the links to the rest of the pages that generate signs.
Here are some […]
The Story Of Our Lives Narrated Through Gadgets
Time Magazine published the list of the Most Influential Gadgets and Gizmos. These gadgets are almost like the highlights of our lives for those of us who like technology and are more than 30 years old.
The list includes:
1976: JVC HR-3300
1977: ATARI 2600
1979: SONY WALKMAN
1982: COMMODORE 64
1984: APPLE MACINTOSH
1989: NINTENDO GAME BOY
1993: APPLE NEWTON MESSAGEPAD
1999: BLACKBERRY
1999: […]
AIBO, An Interesting Story
We already talked about ASIMO from Honda. Now we will talk about AIBO.
AIBO (Artificial Intelligence roBOt) is the name of a dog-robot created by Sony. The story of this robot is very interesting because it relates to the differences in the idiosyncrasies of Japan and the US. In Japan AIBO was a success as a […]
