Technology

Mar

2012

TED – Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly … and cooperate

This is an absolutely fantastic TED video talking about robotic quad-copters. These things have amazing flight characteristics and abilities.

Source: Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly … and cooperate.

Feb

2012

TED – Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994)

Found this interesting TED video last night. Thought it was worth sharing.

Source: Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994).

Dec

2011

HoloAD

Found this interesting video of a new product being developed by InnoVision Labs. This, like other recent “hologram” technology, uses LCD screens either above or below a system of mirrors. It does seem to be one of the more refined and realistic systems out there currently.

Links:

Innovision‘s US website
Innovision‘s Taiwan website
Another video
Yet another video
The DVICE Article

Dec

2011

Good Videos From TEDxHuntsville 2011

These are from TEDxHuntsville 2011. Thought I’d posted about these already, but I guess I forgot to.

Travis Taylor – Stay With It: You Have the Power to Change Your World

Tim Pickens – Explore, Have Fun and Live to Tell About It

Daniel Crosby – You’re Not That Great: A Motivational Speech

Dec

2011

Programming Progress

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” – Bill Gates

I have that quote on my instant messenger. I found out Friday that someone had saw and used it. Its good that someone found it useful. It’s a very valid point to make that lines of code isn’t an accurate measure of programming progress nor complexity. As a place to start, people looking for better methods might like Feature-driven development with a meaningful estimating system like PERT, CPM, or other system.