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Yesterday I posted here on Toyota's violin playing robot.  Cool stuff.  Here's a video that shows a nice close up view on the fingers on the strings.  Sorry the video quality itself is poor -- obviously it's not Silverlight HD .   ...

I'm a fan of robots. As such, two things caught my attention recently -- one far from home and one very near. First, on Thursday Toyota unveiled a white, 5 foot tall, violin playing robot that bowed with its right arm and pressed strings with its left...

Was talking to some folks the other day about some of the cool stuff emerging from Microsoft, and after mentioning to folks they could learn more on this blog, I got request to consolidate some links together into a single post. Voila! :-) Surface Popfly...

Once again, I've been inspired by Steve Clayton . Somehow I missed out on the elf thing last year. Must have been working, or something. ;-) (Click the pic or here to catch my moves) Now, I wonder if Jon Box , Josh Holmes , Denny Boynton , Larry Clarkin...

This is not exactly breaking news, as this video was presented at TED in March 2007, but the live demo is really so good that putting up here is long over due! Get the source here: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/129

Ontological uncertainty exists when, even if you perfectly know and understand the environment you're in, you still can't predict the impact of your actions because the system is changing faster than the ripple effects of your actions can play out. This...

Had the good fortune of meeting Frank Arrigo the other week down in Dallas for some training. Good time. While Frank's head looked smaller in real life, it was chock full of good stuff nonetheless. :-) He got me thinking with a recent post here reviewing...

For those interested in web video... Here's a good interview with Jeremy Allaire , CEO of Brightcove and former CTO of Macromedia. Jeremy reviews a couple different business segments Brightcove has experimented with, and discusses how the company came...