May
04
2010
The Copenhagen Wheel is a giddy, improbable project by the MIT Senseable City Lab. The idea is that you simply replace the back wheel of your bike with this Copenhagen Wheel that generates power when you pedal and gives it back when you don’t feel like pedaling. But it also connects to the Internet, can […]
May
04
2010
Phillies Fan Runs Onto Field, Gets Tased (via jrr4media)
May
04
2010
It’s like a scene from a sci-fi thriller: Amazing photos of the Gulf Coast oil rig exploding, sinking
May
03
2010
Apple has an admirable history of innovation and marketplace performance, but this time the company and Mr. Jobs are drawing attention for all the wrong reasons. Everyone knows that it is his show, his call. But in engaging the long arm of the law on behalf of his corporate interests, Mr. Jobs may lead us […]
May
02
2010
Damien Walters 2010 (via damienwalters)
May
02
2010
It would seem both surprising and remarkably underhanded, even considering the probable involved parties, to undertake constructing a patent pool for some product without ever consulting the vendor of that product: Surely no good faith effort to construct a valid and usable patent pool for a codec could be undertaken without contacting the developers of […]