A couple of months ago a friend sent me a link to a youtube clip called “auto tune the news” After watching it I needed to have more. Now at semi-regular increments they are doing new ones. The general premise of the videos is that they take clips for relevant news stories, CSPAN, CBS News [...]

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Shigeo Hirose, is the director of the Hirose-Fukushima Robotics Lab at Tokyo Tech. Thanks to Gizmodo for bringing him to my attention. After having exploring his site it is very obvious to me that he and his team are by far the leading experts in robotic mechanical design. I make the specific claim about mechanical [...]

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Every once in a while I stumble on things online that will obviously be a hit when/if they become a product. Quite often MIT’s media labs comes up with some of these but this is the first one in a long time that I can see taking off in a big way. I figured out [...]

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