Our good friend, consultant and roommate, Jason Wolfe, is interning at Willow Garage, a robotics research group in Silicon Valley. They recently achieved a significant milestone in robotics: their PR2 alpha robot was able to “navigate through eight doors, and plug its power cord into nine outlets”. The company is striving to create a “mechanical [...]
Via TechCrunch: Apple may be known for its advertising prowess, but this little marketing coup is going to go down as one of the most hilarious ad placements in recent history. doubleTwist, the company co-founded by renowned software reverse engineer DVD Jon, has managed to place a banner for its product directly next to the [...]
Maybe I’m feeling just a little vindicated, since I almost got arrested a few times poking around Boston’s Red Line for a grad class on transit scheduling, but this is kind of cool. According to this story, a bunch of nerds at MIT found security vulnerabilities in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)’s sort-of new [...]
This has been making the rounds on all the blogs, but it’s still kind of funny. I like this guy, who debuts around a minute thirty into the report. I haz home computer too.
We’ve been working on a few secret projects at blinktag that use the Google Earth browser plugin. The biggest drawback we found with the software was that it didn’t work for nerds running Mac OS X . . . . until now. A couple of online applications have already been built using the platform, and [...]
The news about the economy these days isn’t great, but blinktag might just come out on top. An article about the future of the tech industry published in The Economist cites the often neglected converse of Moore’s law, which holds that computing power will double about every two years, to point out what we’ve been [...]
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