Here’s an interesting video found via Make. It shows work done on the vision system of an ASIMO robot to detect and avoid moving obstacles in it’s environment. It’s amazing to watch this robot navigate and calculate trajectories completely on the fly.
Make: Online : ASIMO avoids moving obstacles
At this rate the [...]
Great blog about working at Atari back in the day. DadHacker worked on donkey kong and lived through the great Atari buy out. Great well written stories about what it was like then along with some priceless wisdom.
Here is an interesting graph made by The New York times. It’s a break down of how Americans spend their money across income groups. I found the tax areas particularly interesting. It seems that it’s very true that you have a hump to get over before your taxes actually go down. [...]
Gawker has an awesome piece titled Headlines: An Extensive History Of Terrible CNN.com Headlines. This is brilliant and must have taken a considerable amount of work. Makes me wonder if this was three years in planning or did they just scour the site for them. Unfortunately, this just underscores the lack of [...]
In a brash display of confusing acronyms, the BBC has reported that MS makes an offer to buy Y!. This has come about because Google, being the big boy in the room, has them scared. MS feels that to better compete with the big G’s online offerings they need to team up [...]