The robot will be produced by Thinkway Toys, under licese of Disney and Pixar.
More than 10 motors, remote control, programmable capabilities, sensors for obstacles, sound and touch, and that cute and tender and friendly look… how could you live without one of these?
If robots will dominate the world anyway, let’s embrace the future!
Via Engadget.
UPDATE:
Techie Diva has posted a video of a demonstration of the robot at the Maker Faire, so take a look and enjoy!
As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction of “et”, the Latin word for “and”. Its shape has evolved continuously since its introduction, and while some ampersands are still manifestly e-t ligatures, others merely hint at this origin, sometimes in very oblique ways.
Read the full essay about the ampersand (&) symbol, by Jonathan Hoefler.
Via Daring Fireball.
Now this is the smallest device running full Mac OS X.
Some time ago I was seriously considering to buy an OQO, but the small Windows device didn’t fit well into my Unix-centric (and now Mac OS X centric) workflow.
The bad news are this is still a hackintosh (Remember Osx86 Project?), so any software update could turn it useless.
Via Engadget.
Having some fun at the park.
What a great concert performed by Goran Bregović and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra on last saturday in the México City Theatre.
Just a few people stayed in their seats, most of the public was singing and dancing in the corridors of the hall. Goran is a great musician, and a great entertainer; he and the vocalist and drummer Alen were smiling the entire concert, and all the band was playing continuously.
They opened with a scherzo, in which the public hears some notes from one brass instrument in the back, and then a second one joins. When you can see the musicians, they are playing while walking to the scenery.
This was the program for the night:
Then all the band left the scene, but came back after the public didn’t stop asking for more. They closed with Kalasnjikov; here’s a video taken by someone who went to the first concert, the one performed on friday 18 (saturday concert was very similar):
It was impossible for me to take pictures or video (there was a guy asking everybody to shut off their cameras and cellphones), but I used my camera to record some songs.
Enjoy them!
UPDATE: I’ve just added a post about this trip to Mexico City on my family blog.
IBM’s Research Information Services is studying the possibility to switch a big number of employees to Mac, according to a report of a test program involving MacBook Pros replacing the ThinkPads until today used by the testers.
IBM sold it’s personal computing division to Lenovo back in 2005, and it’s main business today is in the enterprise sector.
The full story is in Roughly Drafted Magazine.
Via AppleInsider.
LOL. Ok, I promise this was my last post on the “Windows Vista sucks” theme… in the next couple of days.
Via Engadget.
Yesterday Engadget reported on a Mac clone being commercialized by Psystar Corporation, a PC maker not widely known… until that moment: The Engadget effect sent so much traffic Psystar’s website couldn’t handle, and a few hours later it was down.
The computer -shamelessly named as Open Mac- a cheap alternative to those who want all the benefits of Mac OS X Leopard promises “better” specs in a mini-tower PC than those on the Mac Mini, and for a much lower price.
This is nothing but a commercial approach to the OSx86 Project; with an EFI emulator and some tricks, Psystar is installing Leopard on this assembled PC, but they are allegedly using an official distribution of Leopard that is being paid by the customer (The Leopard installation is a $155 option).
Until now Apple hasn’t given too much attention to the OSx86 Project, on which anyone with enough free time on his hands and not much interest in honor license agreements can install Leopard on a cheap PC.
Today Apple Insider reports Psystar defends their business arguing the license agreement of Mac OS X is a violation to antitrust laws.
Leaving the legal discussion for those with the know-how, I wonder if actions like Psystar’s will turn on some Apple interests to lock their software with techniques like hardware and peripherals signatures, and activation procedures a-la-Microsoft.
The Open Mac (now renamed as Open Computer) may be a good PC, but no doubt it lacks the quality endorsed by the Apple logo (a lot of years making and perfecting the product), and -for someone who writes this post on a MacBook- it lacks the style.
Via Engadget and Apple Insider.
If you are not reading this blog on an RSS aggregator, you’ll notice the graphic layout has gone.
That’s because this year, April 9 is CSS Naked Day, when a lot of websites around the world just strip their clothes styles and show of their markup au naturel, with the objective of vindicate XHTML as a markup language and not a graphical design platform.
So, being a defender of web standards, XHTML+CSS and all that, I decided to join the party and show off my naked <body>. And well… I just noticed my templates need some workout.
