The world of technology in general is often associated with computers and geeks behind them typing away at equations. The jobs in the tech sector are often considered boring and without risk. Some are riskier than others. For most, the video below would fall under the category of “Nope”. As you can see from the image above, any fear of heights would prohibit you from doing this job. Better stick to computers and equations. …
At first when I saw this I had to scratch my head, wondering what it was, the image alone is what peaked my interest and then I found out that this is a vehicle of sorts and was awed by its conception. Surprisingly, the original design began back in 1869 in France and since then has taken an unimaginable design to turn into reality. The motorized monocycle, made in the Netherlands, propels a single rider up to 25 MPH. …
Taking old pieces of technology and turning them into art is a nifty idea, and the older the pieces the more worthy they become within the steampunk world. It is not easy to mix match items and have them actually look like something recognizable. Although I have seen many steampunked items, this doll named Charlotte has caught my eye, not because she is steampunked on the outside (she’s not) but instead, she is on the inside. …
We were so close. A non-controversial bill, the Video Privacy Protection Act, flew through the Senate and was sent to President Obama last week. The bill itself isn’t important; it allows people using services like Netflix to post the movies that they were watching directly from the service onto Facebook and other social media sites just as they can do now with music sites like Spotify. This is currently against the law because of legislation from 1988 when Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork’s video rental history was leaked. That’s not the important part. What was important was that a section…
In less than a week the world was supposed to end (according to the Mayans) and many of us celebrated something (to some that would be Christmas) and that is how we are beginning to round out the year. To those who will be vacationing it out, cheers, and to the rest of us worker bees, we will be enjoying living vicariously through the staycationers. …
Having the ability to paint is pretty impressive within itself, not everyone has the creative gene. Watching an idea go from thought to art is an amazing process to witness and even more so when someone can turn a photograph of a real cat and finger paint it on an iPad artistically is simply a mind-blowing experience. …
Every few months, it seems that Klout makes changes to try to bring its importance to a higher level and push itself into the mainstream consciousness. Every few months, the changes that Klout makes push them further into obscurity and away from mainstream consciousness because they try too hard to appeal to the people that simply don’t care. When they do this, they reduce the very thing that could actually make them better known and talked about more often: overall usefulness. The last algorithm change seemed to set “caps” on how “influential” people could be based upon their position in the real…
One of the initial promises of the internet was realized when social media started taking hold a few years ago. Constant communication and the ability to reach out and engage with others around the globe became more than just a dream once sites like MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook opened the doors for our lives at every level to be detailed for anyone to see. The options to keep it personal are still available but so many have chosen to give access to anyone willing to take it. Lives are recorded in fine detail on social media every day. That’s nothing new. What has really been emerging in the…
In theaters, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s first major motion picture Ted was a huge hit. It combined the brash frat boy humor of Judd Apatow comedy films with the over the top toilet humor of Family Guy, and included a sexy love interest in Mila Kunis. How could you go wrong? This isn’t the most incredible feat of the movie Ted though, shockingly. Ted is still gaining fans at an alarming rate. Long after leaving theaters, the Facebook page for Ted continues to gain followers as the movie’s creators continue to create new images, videos, and written content as if the page is run…
Where ever you may be today we hope that you are enjoying time with people you love and capturing memories within your minds and of course with your technology on hand. …
There are certain years that can always be looked at in the movies that act as turning points. I look at 1994, for example, as a year that really started the wave of quality quirkiness when offbeat met gritty with such movies as Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, and Forrest Gump. For science fiction, the year was 1982. As Boing Boing points out, it was a year loaded with trend-setting movies that helped to continue what Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind had built up in previous years. This 1982 preview of the summer’s big science fiction movies seems to prove…
We reported earlier that the NY Times is finding success with its paywall model for generating revenues and increasing profits. On the other side of the fence is News Corp, which has walked along similar paths over the past couple of years but can’t seem to find the right mix and is now showing a loss of $2.1 billion in its recent SEC filing. According to Techcrunch: The non-cash loss is attributed to the closing of the News of the World as well as “a write-down of New News Corporation’s goodwill of approximately $1.3 billion and a write-down of the indefinite-lived intangible assets (primarily…
