Comment Re:Oh lord (Score 1) 267
Eureka fail!
R2D2-Shaped DVD and Videogame Projector 147
Rikardon writes "Nikko Home Electronics has created a DVD projector that looks and moves like R2D2 — with a remote control shaped like the Millenium Falcon. The specs aren't bad: a claimed projection area of up to 6.6m; built-in DVD and CD players; analog and digital video and audio ports; various memory card orifices, and an internal iPod dock. Favorite feature: tilt the legs to adjust the projection height, up to and including projection on the ceiling. No word on whether it projects holograms."
A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything) 74
An anonymous reader writes "The folks over at Thought Lab have produced an extremely high-density mobile computing platform in a scooter and have been kind enough to teach us all how to make our own! The end result was a rolling system capable of long-distance war driving, GPS navigation, Skype calls on the road, serving as an Internet hot spot or a low-power pir8 radio station, as well as recording your favorite TV program so you don't miss Lost because you are lost. If that's not over the top enough, you can actually drive your scooter to, say, the Grand Canyon, plug in your electric guitar and perform live over the Web at a whim!"
Journal Journal: OpenSocial apps out of sandbox on Orkut in India
OpenSocial (Google's reply to Facebook apps), which was launched with much fanfare in late 2007 finally launched for the general users on Orkut in India last week. The initial launch hype watered down considerably over the last 6 months due to a rather long 'sandbox' testing phase consisting of a limited number of users.
As of now, 24 applications are listed in the 'app directory', consisting of Facebook biggies like Flixster, ilike/iread etc and several India specific apps.
Adoption
As of now, 24 applications are listed in the 'app directory', consisting of Facebook biggies like Flixster, ilike/iread etc and several India specific apps.
Adoption
Journal Journal: Psychologist shining over math wizards for Netflix prize
A British psychologist (also having a masters in Operations Research) has suddenly risen to the top of the Netflix prize charts. With his very first attempt, he got a score which took the BellKor team seven months to reach. Currently at a score of 8.07, he has only five teams ahead of him now.
Read the full article here- http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_netflix/
