Dean Kamen, inventeur du fameux Segway et du IBOT, la chaise roulante qui tient sur deux roues, a récemment terminé le prototype de ce qu’il a baptisé le «Luke Arm» (en honneur d’un certain héros d’une certaine guerre qui a eu lieu il y a très longtemps dans une galaxie très éloignée). Possédant 18 points d’articulation, alors que les bras artificiels «calssiques» n’en offrent pas plus de 3 ou 4, ce bras, comme tout ce qu’il invente, est une véritable révolution. Le site web IEEE Spectrum nous offre, pour la première fois, une vue en détail du bras artficiel. Et je dois vous dire que c’est hallucinant de voir …
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Improv Everywhere freezes Grand Central Station
So after filling a Best Buy with fake employees and weirding out a used-books bookstore with a cell phone symphony (as well as a huge bunch of other chaotic «missions») this time post-comedy troupe Improv Everywhere have filled New York’s Grand Central Station with 207 frozen «Agents» to the dismay and disbelief of the usual crowd of tourists, travelers and random passers-by. This is truly amazing.
[UPDATE : I had to change the Revver video for a crappier, lower-quality Youtube video because the Revver Worpdress Plugin doesn’t work right. You can still click through to the Revver page if you want to see better quality video.]
L’invasion des super coquerelles de l’espace
D’après un article ici, des coquerelles conçues en apesanteur présentent des caractéristiques vraiment inquiétantes. Elles se développent plus rapidement, et elles courent plus vite…
Something in the Air : New Apple products and Steve Jobs Keynote
Come every january, on a certain tuesday in the middle of the month, you’ll find me frantically reloading a bunch of tabs in my browser while actively avoiding answering any email or phone call. On that day is the Macworld Keynote with Steve Jobs, and the whole webisphere is frantically speculating, rumoring, commenting the rumors, and generally freaking out about whatever Steve is going to present. The very strict secrecy aspect, as much as the jaw-dropping amazingness of the products he tends to announce has everybody paying attention. The iPhone, the iMac, theMac Mini, the PowerBook G4, etc. Most of the attention-getting designs are launched at these keynotes.
So what about this year? How was it?
Well, it sure wasn’t a disappointment. Most of the rumors turned out to be spot-on, the products are really cool, and the livebloggers are getting better and better – although I sure miss the days where it was a live video webcast. So read on to learn what I thought of all the shiny new Apple toys.
Fix your own damn gadget
So my Fuji Finepix Z1 has been dead for a month. Won’t turn on, dead.
I was thinking I’d have to send it somewhere (like Fuji Canada, genre) and give someone my money. In the meantime, it’s been sitting on its little dock cradle, and I have been acquainting myself with my cell phone’s photo (not so bad) and video (so bad you want to cry) cababilities.
It’s a Sony Ericsson K51oa, not a high-end thing (there’s a new high-end phone coming out soon in Canada, maybe you’ve heard of it) but it takes remarkably decent pictures. Remarkably decent means extremely average, as in hey, this thing actually takes pictures and you can even recognize the people in them! Well, at 1.3 Megapixels …
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Nigerian Snail Mail SPAM Scam…
Malheureusement, c’est pas une blague, j’ai vraiment reçu ceci par la poste… Pas par Email, non, dans une ENVELOPPE avec un TIMBRE!!!!! En provenance d’Espagne!!!!!!! (Je sais pas pourquoi ça aurait rapport, mais whatever)
Est-ce que c’est le temps pour Postes Canada d’investir dans un genre de nouveau filtre à SPAM?
Cliquer sur l’image pour plus de détails.
New! Improved!
So thanks to the power of having both Apple’s OSX AND Windows’ XP on the same machine, I finally managed to get the site looking the same on both platforms.
Yes, if you’re on a PC, you can now see this blog as it was meant to be! Thank you Apple (for the Intel move), thanks Parallels (for the virtualization thing to load XP in just a new window) and for shame, Windows (for you know why). Ok this is starting to feel like an awards show. I’d also like to thank my family…
Gosh, the jumps through hoops you have to do, just to get «simple» CSS to act the same way on IE as on the others! I’m glad I haven’t been coding …
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