Category Archives: technical

MAP vost: an amazing new breakthrough

Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 6:00 pm by

He might be onto something, here 😉 Like 0

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Festo – BionicOpter

Posted on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio: some music] Wow! A dragonfly drone! It’s gorgeous. This little critter is beautiful. Oh yeah, probably part of Skynet someday… Like 0

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first recorded mobile phone call?

Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio: snappy music; Subtitled: English] I haven’t decided if this is for real — there’s some odd details that would be hard to reproduce, such as the snow plowed off the sidewalks into the street (the poor horses!). But the … Continue reading →

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the terminator as a kid!

Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[Subtitles: Japanese, English] Cute! But watch out when he grows up… Like 0

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google plus

Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 12:00 pm by

Well, I have added a new google plus feed on the sidebar to the right (near the bottom). As you may or may not know, I am extremely ambivalent about Google Plus, due to it’s so-called “Real (or Wallet) Name” … Continue reading →

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computer recognition of signs

Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio: French; Subtitles: English; Languages: French, English, FSL] Some pretty cool work being done here. There are several similar projects underway, but this one’s using a neural network algorithm, which has the potential for recognizing more subtle gestures plus matching … Continue reading →

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late night humor: crowdsourcing around domain seizures

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm by

I love this: Firefox Add-on ‘Undoes’ U.S. Government Domain Seizures The seizure of file-sharing related domain names by the US Government hasn’t been as effective as the entertainment industries had hoped since many of them simply continued their operations under … Continue reading →

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