So I sit in front of my computer playing around with ideas for my new business card and I’m really debating adding one of those scannable “Quick Response” codes, similar to the ones on prescription drugs and postage. The advantage of doing this, is clients and friends with compatible phones will be able to quickly scan [...]
I few days ago I joined Okcupid out of mere curiosity. I’ve heard about it from people and decided to use it as ‘research’ tool. One of it’s best features, their blog. They have in-depth studies about their user’s trends when it comes to dating and attracting each other. Take a look for yourself: Hello, [...]
To the people of the world, from OK Go: This week we released a new album, and it’s our best yet. We also released a new video – the second for this record – for a song called This Too Shall Pass, and you can watch it here. We hope you’ll like it and [...]
These Japanese researchers HAVE to stop making their robots look like humans. It’s just too damn creepy. Just take a look at their latest creation, Diego-san, the extremely disproportionate 1 year old. Built to imitate a human child, this robot is apparently helping them learn more about human child development. This creature from hell has [...]
It seems like whenever I go out I spend half the time trying to communicate with friends, cutting down my partying time. This Halloween, I was overburdened trying to give directions to friends, comparing parties and trying to tweet for those far away (ahem, Jordan). It was the first time where I had half the [...]
Google takes a stab at reinventing the e-mail: what is Google Wave? http://bit.ly/1AghED #googlewave # Watching hockey over beers with @QuasiDeLuca and @EricRudolph at Landsdowne Road bar, so not me, yet having a good time. # ESPN pilot shoot done at 2am. Now keeping our fingers crossed. # Filming a pilot for possible ESPN comedy [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to laugh your asses off. This is a hilarious PSA brought to you by SIIA about software piracy in 1992. Watch in amazement how ridiculous we used to dress and more importantly the use of floppy disks, where we had the capability of storing a whopping 1.4 megabytes! The PSA [...]
1. Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters. 2. There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down. 3. Televised contests gave cash prizes to whoever could store the most data in their head. 4. Well, the screens were [...]
This bad boy of a gadget projects an image from a retrofitted camera at the exact moment another camera snaps a picture with flash. This creates an invisible illusion to the human eye only seen after the picture is taken. This is the brain child of Julius von Bismarck from Germany. In a recent interview [...]
The highly anticipated Fox film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked to bittorrent sites a few days ago and has already reached millions of downloads. About a week ago 20th Century Fox’s unfinished film was released to the online masses via an unknown leak. In just over a week it has reached over a million downloads. [...]
“You have summoned the fail-whale!” The sad thing about it, I still like to consider myself a Twitter….sigh.
One of my favorite sites, Last.fm is getting ready to roll out a new redesigned website. The new beta version of the site is looking very fresh. Imagine if Facebook and Last.fm got married and had kids, that is what the new site looks like. There is more emphasis in the music player and sharing [...]
You’ve heard right. Music pioneers, Radiohead are at it again. This time they’re not giving away free albums but making music videos without the use of video cameras. Their newest video for “House of Card’s” from the album “In Rainbows” was captured utilizing new multimedia technologies, Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. Geowhat?! That’s what I [...]
Here’s a funny image as to what would happen on Twitter during a zombie outbrake.
Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they ’ll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. But now an increasing number of people are just plain avoiding voicemail. It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it. read [...]
It’s incredible how much of our underwater world we have yet to explore. Thousands of species unclassified or yet to be discovered, it’s like another planet. Watch David Gallo as he narrates this nice clip about incredible underwater creatures.
A few days ago I received a message on Flickr about one of my pictures. It was from an aspiring artist showing me some of his work inspired by one of my photographs. It’s great to see my work influencing other artists!
We are truly living in an exciting period. We are about to experience a major transition that will shake the very foundation of all music labels, music consumers and sharers around the globe. I am talking about the dawn of Music 2.0 as coined by Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey. Music 2.0 refers to the [...]
Stereogum has put together an amazing compilation in tribute to Björk’s album Post. They have asked the bands Liars, Dirty Projectors, No Age, High Places, Atlas Sound, El Guincho, Final Fantasy & Ed Droste, Evangelicals, Xiu Xiu, Pattern Is Movement, Bell, White Hinterland to create their own renditions of Björk’s tracks. These are all original [...]
The odds seem to be in our favor when it comes to meeting girls here in the East Coast. According to this map by Richard Florida, there are 210,820 more single women than men in the New York and northern New Jersey area. Single women seem to be concentrated in large metropolitan cities around the [...]
As if x-mas wasn’t close enough, office Max has a pretty damn cool game where you put your face on a dancing elf and watch it dance. Great time waster for those lame afternoons at work: www.elfyourself.com
What the heck is a Keepon you may ask? Keepon is a small yellow japanese robot designed by Hideki Kozima to study social interaction mainly amongst kids but also adults. This small cute yellow robot has been recently featured in Spoon’s newest music video for “Don’t You Evah” as a Japanese scientist takes the robot [...]
Just today Flickr, one of the best online photo sharing sites, has introduced online photo editing capabilities. They partnered with Picnik to provide the tools necessary to make simple yet handy and fun changes to your pictures. [zoomer]125|400|0|Power Thumbnail|0|0[/zoomer] Once you click on the ‘Edit Photo’ button on top of any image you will be [...]
Is it just me or is Facebook getting a bit too crowded? Ever since they opened its doors the public and with the addition of their 3rd party apps it seems like flocks of MySpacers and migrating to Facebook. It’s great but the site but I feel like MySpacers and Facebookians come from two different [...]
I decided to start a continuos series of entries all relating to technology which we may have seen or thought to only exists in sci-fi movies, books or cartoons. I have always been a Sci-Fi buff, always interested in anything with robots and lasers to say the least. One of my favorite series of all [...]
The internet has completely come to revolutionize the music industry from the way we discover new artists to how we acquire their music. Millions of music files are shared back and forward everyday between listeners, most of them shared illegally and freely. The music industry has tried everything from protecting their songs with DRM encoding [...]
Here’s a fun link, this small web app measures your body’s wattage output and gives you some real life examples of what you could be powering. So, how much electricity does you body produce? Here are my results:
Apple just introduced the new redesigned iMacs with a new brushed metal look and a couple of hardware changes. The new design design mirrors the metal look of current Apple displays combined with the glossy screen and black border of the iPhone. Of course the new iMacs are much much slimmer and faster than its [...]
Meet William Kamkwamba. At age 15 he built a windmill entirely from scrap parts, generating enough electricity to power his home in rural Malawi, one of the poorest countries in Africa. His personal blog details the steps day-by-day with pics.read more | digg story
Those guys over at Coudal Partners have put together a nice little video on how to wash your Apple keyboard with a dishwasher. Perfect for getting rid of all those pizza crumbs and coffee spills.
That’s the same exact question I have been asking myself. It has been way too long since my last post, but the truth is I barely have the time to keep up. I wish I didnt have to sleep in order to do the millions of things I need to get accomplished. In other news, [...]
Today Apple announced the long awaited Apple iPhone; Microsoft tremble. I cannot stress how exited I am about this product, first of all it is exactly what I’ve been waiting for, an all in one gadget with robust media capabilities. iPod, phone, organizer, camera, email and internet all in one with one cool looking gadget [...]
If you didn’t know, the internet is under threat by big corporations planning to split to the internet into two. As it stands, the internet is one big highway with all sorts of traffic with different sized cars all in one road. What these corporations aim to do, is divide this highway of information into [...]
To all you Flickrites, make sure to renew those subscriptions.
So lately my blog has be plagued with spammed comments, it got to a point where I had to close the comments completely. So until I fix this you will have to register in order to comment. Annoying yes, I hate it too. Damn spam, it was also crowding my mail accounts.
So I finally got a new camera, after months of photo depravation I got some new hardware. I was really considering a Nikon DSLR but since almost all other photographers that I know shoot with Canons, I went with a Canon. I got the Canon 30D, amazing camera, solidly built, big LCD screen (2.5″) and [...]
For those who don’t know, digg.com is was a technology news website, but unlike other new sites it has no editors to censor and pick out the stories, it is all run by it’s users. It’s a collective community that submits and promotes their own stories. It started as a technology only news site rivaling [...]
Tokyo’s futuristic image as the world’s most technologically advanced broadband internet-enabled city is under attack from a vicious but decidedly low-tech foe: the crow. read more | digg story