… This is what it would be like

Google’s Sergei Brin and Steve Horowitz show off multiple prototypes of the Android platform, one of which has a Palm smartphone form factor and one that has a higher-end, HTC Windows Mobile form factor.
Sergei talks about how Google has set aside $10,000,000 to reward innovative mobile Android application developers. The resources needed to begin developing [...]

Dan Kaminsky, of DoxPara shot some really cool video of a couple of guys and their R/C quad-helicopters at Chaos Communication Camp 2007 (CCCamp) . The first of the two in the video cost $10,000 to build and the second cost only 500 Euro. This 2nd video shows you a small sample of how [...]

A fellow by the name of Warren Harding has designed a program that reads in a YouTube video and plays it using ASCII text!
This is a really long video and the first few minutes is just him trying to find a video on YouTube using Lynx and then sifting through the source code to download [...]

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This is a demonstration of the alpha version of CompComm (a temporary name) which is a result of the re-merge of Beryl and Compiz. These plug-ins and effects are bleeding edge and are not expected to work perfectly. However you CAN try them out. There are instructions for Ubuntu Feisty on forums.opencompositing.com Take [...]

If you missed the demo of Microsoft’s Surface table product at the D: All Things Digitalconference a few weeks back then you didn’t miss out on much. On that day Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that will “break down traditional barriers [...]

Cardboard box + Tracing Paper + Movie Poster + Tape = $0.00
Full article availabe here [strobist]

The Reactable is a multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artifacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

Alan Carvalho de Assis (and friends), as announced on the LinuxBIOS mailing list, has released a video of the newly released LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside.
All of this in a normal BIOS chip (2 MB), without any hard drive connected (who needs hard drives when you can fit everything in the BIOS just fine)… The [...]