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I am not a big sports fan or anything. But observing human being based on sports event is pretty interesting. This video was created right after the last night’s UNC victory. 931 images were taken to create this timelapse of human crowds at the intersection of Franklin and Columbia street.

I used to live in North Carolina before I moved up here and I didn’t know how many people lived there until now.

Now is the future. Honda has just unveiled an electronic helmet that allows the wearer to control the Asimo robot without moving a muscle. Scary and awesome at the same time. Check out the possibilities.

A very strange website appeared in France, roulez-leko.com featuring the great car designer Christophe Grozs standing next to a car draped with the word LEKO and the tagline of “la voiture selon IKEA”. A countdown also adds to the anticipation of the unveiling. Really? Really? An IKEA car? This is an stunt right? The name LEKO obviously came fromL’eco, right? It’s too meaningful compared to IKEA’s other product collections with names like Klippan or Malm or Pax. And what’s up with the World Wildlife Fund? Are they behind this? But anyway, only 4 days… I’m excited to find out what it really is.

No this is not about a new Google service. For those of you that weren’t aware, there was a major disturbance reported on the clouds of the Google Kingdom back on Saturday, Mar. 7th. The glitch took place on the Google platform known as Google Docs, where documents saved on Google Docs were shared with contacts who were never granted access. If a user had ever shared a document with someone using Google Docs, more than likely the user that was granted access gained access to any other documents the granting user had ever shared with anyone else.

Here’s the letter that was sent to Google Docs users:

“Dear Google Docs user,

The Google Docs Team”

This was an isolated incident, which only affected .05% of Google Docs users, but this was major privacy no no for Google. I guess when Google advertises free web services they mean free-for-all?… Whoops!

http://www.vimeo.com/3187100

Designed by Silke Hilsing, Impress is a flexible display that consists of foam and force sensors. It works with the parameters position and time like other touch screens as well, but in addition to that, it reacts, above all, on the intensity of pressure.

The evolution of screens… never thought that was possible. I wonder if we can make a trampoline mat using this idea soon. Lose weight while you design. It will be pretty nerdy exercise.

You can visit www.silkehilsing.de for more information.

Computers being aware of each other is nothing new, but these mini computers are more aware than you may think.

The Beeb are so bloody on point.

The No. 1 Detective Agency is Alexander McCall Smith’s novel series set in Botswana, featuring the first lady detective to solve mysteries, everything from infidelity, kidnapping and mistaken identity.  BBC1 adapted the book for a mini series, shooting it last year; threw in songstress Jill Scott to play Precious, Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) to screenwrite and (the now late) Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) to direct the whole shabang.

America, it’s coming -  HBO March 29th.  Watch the trailer.

As a PR stunt for the movie Watchmen on tuesday, a water screen projector was used to create a huge spectacle over the Thames. The idea was cool but many of the attendees said that the execution was poor. See for yourself.

At COMDEX Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon.”

In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating (by Mr. Welch himself):

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single “general car default” warning light.
7. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
8. The airbag system would say “Are you sure?” before going off.
9. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
10. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car’s performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
11. Every time GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as in the old car.
12. You’d press the “start” button to shut off the engine.