The Brick Thief! The new LEGO stop-motion promo video is just plain cute. Mustaches, music, stop-motion, robots, monkeys, LEGOs… It really makes me wish my LEGO bricks built themselves on their own. Click!
Watch and enjoy!
This article was written on April 17, 2008 by CyberNet.
The Wii has become rather notorious for the specialized controllers that it uses to draw people into the game being played. It’s very much possible that you’ve been using the controllers for quite some time without actually knowing what they are capable of doing.
Don’t worry, Johnny Lee is here to open your naive eyes. He has a page setup on his site that is merely for the Wii projects that he has undergone, which there are currently three of. For most of the projects you don’t even need a Wii console… just the Wiimote and a computer will do. To top it all off he not only provides the downloads of the applications but also the source code!
So what has he done that is so great? The video below shows off two projects that he has been very successful at. The first is a budget whiteboard that will cost just barely more than the Wiimote itself. And the second project is a head tracking gadget that could bring a new meaning to 3D games. If you’ve got about 6-minutes to spare I’m sure you’ll find this video thoroughly entertaining:
Pretty cool, huh? It’s really amazing that something as simple as a game controller could have so many different uses.
If you didn’t get enough geekiness from that video you should head on over to Johnny Lee’s site where he has some less formal, but more detailed videos of the projects in action. Let us know if you decide to take it to the next level and actually get one of his projects running yourself. 
Ted Conference [via Joystiq]
Thanks to “Change” for the tip!
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This article was written on November 23, 2007 by CyberNet.
There are a lot of features on the computer that we use everyday without ever knowing where they were derived from. So we thought it would be fun to give you a brief history lesson so that you can appreciate even the simplest features on your computer!
Below we’ll walk you through how the cut, copy, and paste commands developed into what we use today, and also tell you the real reason that Ctrl+Alt+Del was invented. Lets jump into the time machine!
Could you imagine using a computer that never let you use the cut, copy, and paste commands? It has become such an essential part of our daily lives that it would be nearly impossible to live without.
Before computers were even born the term “cut and paste” was widely used when editing manuscripts, where people would literally cut something out on paper and paste it on another page. It wasn’t until 1974 that “cut and paste” was used when referring to a editing text on a computer, and it was Larry Tesler from Xerox who made the connection.
In 1981 Apple made “cut and paste” popular with the release of Lisa, which was a computer with a graphical interface. It was Apple who standardized the keyboard shortcuts, which at the time were the modifier key + X for cutting, C for copying, and V for pasting. Microsoft later adopted it into Windows with nearly identical key combinations.
Ctrl+Alt+Del is well known as the way to shutdown unresponsive applications, restart the computer, and in some instances it is needed to login:
Who started the keyboard shortcut that has become a way of life for so many people? David Bradley, a designer of the original IBM PC, implemented it to reboot the computer after programs would hang. He got sick of having to power down the PC, wait a few seconds, and then go through the power up process all over again. Originally the shortcut was Ctrl+Alt+Esc, but he found that those keys could accidentally be pressed with just one hand. By using the Delete key instead of Escape he helped ensure that two hands were needed to perform a reboot.
Max posted a funny video over in the forum of Bradley being interviewed, where he said that “I may have invented [Control-Alt-Delete], but Bill [Gates] made it famous”:
So there you have it. You now know where and why two important pieces of computer history came from. Go tell your friends all about it so that they’ll know what a geek you really are.
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This week Google Cr-48 notebooks started showing up on doorsteps around the country as press and curious users received their test units, and the holiday shopping season started to heat up. This week some of the best videos YouTube had to offer included Google’s sense of humor on display, a really cool (and somewhat destructive) scientific experiment, and lots of holiday cheer.
YouTube has announced that it is in the process of removing the 15-minute time length restriction imposed on videos. While the limit has, so far, only been lifted with a few special content partners like National Geographic and Lonelygirl15 (a channel which apparently still has viewers), it should pave the way for longer videos for all moving forward. So, why the change now after years of limits? Joshua Siegel, a product manager at YouTube told The New York Times that the company now has copyright issues under control via ContentID, which scans roughly 100 years worth of uploaded video per day in an attempt to fend off violations. There’s no word on when the time limit will be further lifted, but for now, you can at least finally check out epic, full length National Geographic videos on YouTube (one of which we’ve linked below).
YouTube lifting 15-minute time limit for some videos originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
This article was written on February 12, 2007 by CyberNet.
It was just over a week ago that Google was demanded by Viacom to remove 100,00 video clips. Just recently, MySpace has announced that they’re taking proactive measures to protect copyrighted videos on MySpace. They already have a filtering service in place that blocks music which is not authorized. Their new measures would protect video content.
Chris DeWolfe, MySpace’s co-founder says that “MySpace is dedicated to ensuring that content owners, whether large or small, can both promote and protect their content in our community. For MySpace, video filtering is about protecting artists and the work they create.”
Currently, MySpace is licensing technology from Audible Magic Corp who obtained rights to a system for scanning video clips. The system looks for signature vectors like a fingerprint to compare with vectors stored in a database. If a match is found, then the video would be blocked.
Sharing videos is a huge part of the social-network giant, which many people enjoy and use to increase their networking. This new technology could potentially keep MySpace out of the legal limbo which other video services, like YouTube are facing.
Source: CBC News
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