By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
They’re smart, they’re cool, their lyrics rock and can you hear that audience going totally crazy? I can!
Yes, it’s the Trons, the world’s first robot rock band and they’re playing just for you!
Via Matthew Yglesias
The iDance WALL-E robot, which in essence is a cool-looking iPod speaker, will start grooving as soon as you plug him into any media player. The little fellah will also occasionally say his name (“WaaAaaAll-E”) while dancing to your favorite tunes. Only $25 at Sharper Image.
Located in the lobby of the brand new Comcast Center in Philadelphia, this Barco video wall is composed of 10 million pixels, runs via six dx-700 led digitizers, seven encore video processors and three matrixpro routers. The screen measures 83.3ft x 25.4ft and has cost a whopping $22 million to design, construct and install. Hmmm, I think I need one of these in my living room! Video after the jump.
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
You only have to look at the issue of online file sharing to see how different the European Union is. Some political parties in Scandinavia want to legalise it while German prosecutors think it’s a waste of their time and taxpayers money even prosecuting such “petty offenses”. But France is taking the extreme opposite approach – President Sarkozy is forcefully pushing through a new law that would ban internet access for up to one year to anyone caught illegally sharing files online.
The “three strikes” law is, as you can imagine, hugely controversial, judging from media reports. Some newspapers have accused Sarkozy of only supporting this law because his new wife is a singer, therefore he must have a personal financial interest in protecting musical profits. Needless to say, the music and movie industry are jubilant. Other companies, such as Google, are most definitely not.
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
According to Mozilla’s official live downloads page, Firefox 3 is about to hit 8 million downloads (at the time of writing this, it was at around 7.9 million and rising VERY fast). This is in the first 24 hours of its release.
According to the page, this translates to about 5,400 downloads per minute AND RISING.
This is a staggering accomplishment for Mozilla and a remarkable achievement for an internet browser. Never before has so much demand been there for an internet browser and it obviously goes without saying that Mozilla have their world downloading record that they were after – but was there a record to beat in the first place?
I think Mozilla has set the record for the first time!
The following video will let you witness the biggest, most epic, and greatest office confrontation ever! Enjoy!
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
A while back, I wrote about the RSS feeds that I use to look for stories. Well I have now come across another potential source of new online information, albeit a slower, more laborious one.
inSuggest is a service that scans your Del.icio.us bookmarks, and based on the sites you have bookmarked, it then suggests other sites that it thinks you might like.
I tried with my Del.icio.us account and it returned some pretty interesting results, so it seems to work really well so far.
You might say that you are already overwhelmed with information on the net and you don’t need anymore thrown at you. If that’s the case then OK, don’t use InSuggest. But since I’ve just discovered that Firefox 3 is not compatible with the Stumbleupon toolbar, I might need to use InSuggest for the moment to get some story ideas.
No, we’re not advocating piracy, but it seems that Cosmopolitan magazine is. Now, if you ask me, I think that publishing this was extremely stupid. These guys are going to have all sorts of anti-piracy organizations on their back before they can say “Thirty hot sex tricks to blow your man’s mind – check inside!”.
You would think that such a big media corporation would push anti-piracy practices to their readers out of simple respect for doing the right thing, but noooooo… go ahead girls, swap and copy your CDs, it’ll save more money for those new stilettos.
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Help the folks from Mozilla set a new world record and download your copy of Firefox 3 today!
Edit: Hmmm, it looks like Mozilla’s servers are getting hit really hard right now because all popular Firefox download locations are currently down. If you can’t get your copy at the moment, make sure you try a bit later. You do want to help break that world record now, do you?
The following video shows an interesting demo of an experimental user interface for a future mobile version of Firefox. This is well worth the watch for those of you who are anxiously waiting for a good browser to be released on their favorite mobile platform. Yes, yes, I know, the browser on the iPhone already rocks. You don’t have to remind me about it!