Posts Tagged “Inspirational”
Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
Jamie Oliver, the well known chef, was given the TED Prize earlier this year. On top of receiving $100,000 for their cause, TED Prize recipients get “One Wish to Change the World.” This means that they get to make their wish of the diverse and talented folks who are at the TED conference. Jamie’s wish [...]
Twitter FTW: or how after 10,543 tweets Twitter actually came in handy
For those who may not know, I work for Yahoo! remotely. As such, my development box is 4,795 km (2,980 miles) to the west of me. Now, this isn’t normally a problem, except for today when my box decided to stop responding. And if you don’t believe in Murphy’s Law, today was also Presidents Day [...]
Don’t Settle For Mediocrity or: How They Crammed 3½ Minutes Of Video Into A 4kB File
A friend of mine just pointed me to the Breakpoint 2009 4K intro winner by RGBA and TBC called Elevated. I’ve got to be honest, I haven’t been as impressed with a demoscene production since Farbrausch‘s Debris (which was 177K). And of course by “K” I mean kilobytes. As in smaller in file size than the images making up [...]
Dean Kamen Outdoes Himself (Again)
Dean Kamen, inventor of the famed Segway and the lesser known but so much more incredible iBOT Mobility System has outdone himself again with his latest invention, the Luke Arm. Yes, it’s a prosthetic arm eons ahead of anything out there and yes, it’s named after Luke Skywalker’s prosthetic arm. Kamen discussed his latest invention, [...]