One Guy and a Dream

With Massachusetts soon to follow?

Nevada Passes Law Authorizing Driverless Cars – Alex Knapp – Robot Overlords – Forbes.

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The IBM Watson team took the time to answer some questions from the reddit community. I always think it is interesting learning about new technology:

blog.reddit — whats new on reddit: IBM Watson Research Team Answers Your Questions.

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[Note: I may be legally required to say this now. I work for Nuance who has a business partnership with IBM, and this team specifically. Does anyone know the (relatively) new disclosure laws for blogs about things like this?]

This is a well done “learn to type faster” flash game. Type the words that appear on the screen, and watch them explode:

Z-Type.

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Pretty ordinary things look much cooler when you can film them at 2500 fps and play back in very slow motion.

Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex on Vimeo on Vimeo

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Especially for Jake – someone made an iPhone app that let’s colorblind people see in color (on the phone):

DanKam: Augmented Reality For Color Blindness « Dan Kaminskys Blog.

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Great both for the statistics shown, and the visualizations used:

YouTube – Hans Roslings 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four.

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I missed this the first time around, but it popped back up now that Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 World Cup. How could this bid possibly be turned down? Projecting the games onto fields in stadiums around the world?

AFP: Japan offers global 3-D telecasts in 2022 WC bid.

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In addition to being the theme of the 2008 Boston Celtics, Ubuntu is a flavor of linux – an open source, free operating system. They have a 6 month release cycle, so a new version comes out twice per year. A new version was just released today – you can check it out here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

If you want to try it out, you can run it as a live disk, meaning you can run it directly off of a CD or USB stick without affecting your current operating system (though with limited functionality).