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Boston Dynamics Robot (Atlas) Walking Through The Forest

8/17/2015

Boston Dynamics have been working on incredible robotics technology. This one runs through the forest. To be fair, it runs like a toddler needing to use the restroom...for now. But as the technology progresses, it will lose the tether & will run around like a teenager. Yikes!
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"...presentation featured some video that we’d never seen before as well as tantalizing hints of what Boston Dynamics has been working on.

Here’s the clip that’s been going around, with Raibert showing some footage of Spot (an agile autonomous quadruped) opening a door with a manipulator mounted on it’s um, face (not nearly as scary as this), followed by ATLAS doing some dynamic walking outside, which is definitely new..."

Read more @ IEEE Spectrum

Ever wanted to become a Google Mapper?

6/26/2015

"Not long ago, the John J. Harvey, a red steel fireboat built in 1931, left the southern tip of Manhattan. It was headed north for a five day trip up the Hudson River, as far as the Erie Canal and then back. On board were about fifty maritime-history buffs and a bright green piece of hardware mounted on a backpack. This was 6138580E, one of a handful of Trekkers built by Google in the past couple of years. A Trekker is a portable photographic rig that looks like a long-necked robot with a dissected disco ball for a head. It contains two batteries, two hard drives, and fifteen cameras that point in..."

Read more @ The New Yorker

Be the next Trekker

Create a YouTube Playlist as a Modern-Day Mixtape

6/8/2015

The mixtape concept can be used for classroom applications to "flip" learning as well as be used in student projects.

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The art of mixtape making has sadly been lost in our transition to a digital era of on-demand music, but there are still places where you can practice this lost skill, and one of them is YouTube. Here are the steps to assemble your group of songs and share them with a special someone or the world at large.

From the YouTube menu (accessible via the menu button near the logo) you can choosePlaylists then New playlist to get started. Give the playlist a name and set its visibility toPublic or Unlisted. You’re now ready to start adding your tracks—on any YouTube video page, choose Add to and then...

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How to free up Google Drive space

4/30/2015

Although Google is awesome to provide unlimited Google Drive space for all students & staff, for those with regular Google Drive, these tips will be helpful.

Need more space in your Gmail inbox? Time to clear out Google Drive.

How did Google Come Up With The Chrome Brand?

1/15/2015

Glen Murphy, Design Director, Google Chrome

We had a 'pick a codename' vote early in the development cycle - the names that came out of that competition were so terrible that we were all pretty happy when one of the leads overrode it and declared that the codename would be 'Chrome', presumably because he likes fast cars. When it came time to pick a real name for the product before shipping, we ended up sticking with 'Chrome' because:

During development, we'd all come to love the product deeply, and new names had a hard time breaking and bettering the associations we'd already formed with the codename.
As our lead did, people associated it with speed - shiny fast engines and cars.
In design terminology, 'chrome' refers to the non-webpage parts of the browser's interface - the toolbars, tabs and buttons - because our design philosophy was "Content, not chrome" - putting our focus on minimizing the amount of browser UI present, we felt it cheekily appropriate to name the browser 'Chrome'.

Also, I personally like it because of its relation to 'chroma' and 'chromatic' - I love the cacophony of colors that those words imply, and how that relates to the beautiful range of design across the web. Though from the looks I get when I explain this to my teammates, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who views it this way.

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Boston Dynamics Robot (Atlas) Walking Through The Forest

Ever wanted to become a Google Mapper?

Create a YouTube Playlist as a Modern-Day Mixtape

How to free up Google Drive space

How did Google Come Up With The Chrome Brand?

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