Month: March 2009

Flickr Clock

Flickr Clock

The folks over at Stamen Design released another slick visualization tool earlier this month, this one for showing video posts on Flickr: It’s a browser for the videos that people have recently started uploading to the site. They’re arranged chronologically, and drawn from videos that people have posted to the flickrclock group on flickr. The […]

Threadless Loves Green

From the Threadless Site: In anticipation of Earth Day 2009, we’d love for you to let us know what being “green” means to you… in the form of an awesome tee design, of course! Is it a cleaner environment? Sustainable resources? Renewable energy? Global responsibility? All of the above? Or maybe you have some other […]

Button It Up Book Events

For those of you in the Portland, OR area, don’t miss Susan Beal’s Button It Up Book Events. The first one is tonight at Powell’s Books (1005 W. Burnside St., in downtown Portland) at 7:30, upstairs in the Pearl Room. Then next week on Saturday, March 28 at 4:00pm, Susan will be at Bolt Fabric […]

Robotic gardeners at MIT

MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab) is using iRobot Create systems to experiment with robotic vegetable gardeners who can tend plants teleoperatively and can deliver just the right amount of what a plant needs based on sensors attached to the plant. When the fruit is ripe, the robots can even harvest it. [Is […]