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… this web comics suggests a possible use for it

You may already know about this robot vacuum cleaner, the roomba.

You may already know how hackable it is and that an entire community has appeared around it.

You are not impressed anymore by all the hacks that involve Apple Sudden Motion Sensor.

Now, a new step has been reached: Tilt and roll your MacBook to control your Roomba.
It uses Bluetooth, the MacBook SMS and a perl script.

Details here.

… in the US.

“The popular BitTorrent client, Azureus has just struck a deal with the BBC to offer TV shows on its recently launched content store/website, Zudeo.”

read more | digg story

Apple was the first to introduce digital camera (Quicktake) and PDA (Newton) to a mass audience long time before then became product of mass consumption which is why they commercially failed(can we call it The Tucker syndrome? or maybe the NeXT syndrome for the geekier of you). These products are probably the tip of an iceberg, the hidden part being all of the prototypes that they didn’t put into production like the ones described in this article by Apple Gazette (also read the comments for more):

Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw by Apple Gazette

One can wonder what else they are concocting in their labs now given the evolution of Apple R&D budget:

Ars Technica has published this interesting article:

London pilots “future crime” database

Just found this story on Digg relating various steps of the evolution of graphic user interface on personal computers.
It reminded me another time line I came across years ago, which is the history of UNIX from 1969 to nowadays.

read more | digg story

Interesting article here:
Can a Manager Be a Techie and Survive?

I’ve just found out that my views expressed on earlier posts are shared by at least one web comic author:
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

• Peaceful launch for the Wii

PS3: bad boys, again

Although an extensive review of the gadget can be found on Ars Technica, it’s Joy Of Tech who summarizes it best: