Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- Lucasfilm forces Flyers goalie to change the "Star Wars" graphic on his mask.
- NIN's "Head Like a Hole" mashed with "Call Me Maybe" is terrible and perfect.
- Teddy Faley made a mashup album using Mobb Deep lyrics over 8-bit Mario samples.
- Never lose at pool again (by cheating).
- Silicon Valley is full of stoners.… Read more
Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- It's It: The story of the Bay Area's most famous dessert, or, the other San Francisco treat.
- This is why we behave so strangely in elevators.
- Snopes debunks "Elevator Express" trick.
Bathroom break video: Empty America series profiles San Francisco.
Episode 1,150 Subscribe in iTunes (audio) | Subscribe in iTunes (video) | Subscribe in RSS Audio | Subscribe in RSS VideoLAS VEGAS--Parallax is the company that makes the hackable Defcon badges, but it's even better known for another hackable product: its ELEV-8 robotic quadcopter, soon to be expandable to six rotors.
The hexcopter kit adds more lifting power to the ELEV-8, doubling the payload thanks to an extra battery along with the extra rotors. It can now hold most cameras, for remote robotic airborne surveillance. Parallax representatives said that it also makes the ELEV-8 more stable in flight.
Parallax says that the kit is likely to be available around the end of August, and will run you another $200. … Read more
U2 frontman Bono is embarking on a solo tour but it doesn't involve music. A private equity firm co-founded by the musician is hitting the road to search for more money, according to Reuters.
Elevation Partners, which has invested heavily in social networking, is now looking to dig up $1 billion for a second fund, reports Reuters. The company's largest investment to date has been in Facebook, to the tune of $270 million, which came in three installments and valued the social networking site at $16 billion at the time. (The company is now estimated to be worth $… Read more
Japanese construction company Obayashi wants to build an elevator to space and transport passengers to a station about a tenth the distance to the moon.
The elevator would use super-strong carbon nanotubes in its cables and could be ready as early as 2050, according to Tokyo-based Obayashi.
The cables would stretch some 60,000 miles, about a quarter the distance to the moon, and would be attached to Earth at a spaceport anchored to the ocean floor. The other end would dangle a counterweight in space.
The elevator would zip along at 125 mph, possibly powered by magnetic linear motors, but would take about a week to get to the station. It would carry up to 30 people. … Read more
"WoooooooooOOOOoooOoOoooOOooo! We did it! 100% funded in just over eight hours. You people are amazing!," read the Kickstarter page for Tim Schafer's Double Fine Adventure today.
This was one of two projects to hit $1 million in donations today from the crowd-source funding platform Kickstarter.
According to Kickstarter, every week, tens of thousands of people pledge millions of dollars to projects listed on its site. But never has a project topped $1 million, much less two in one day.
One of the projects is the Elevation Dock designed by Casey Hopkins, the founder of ElevationLab in Portland, … Read more
There's a constant tension at Google between fast-moving, nimble, disruptive projects and the more plodding established business.
Sometimes the entrenched part of the business comes out ahead, as when Google canceled Google Labs. But attempts to nurture a start-up ethos within the company continue, this time with a project called Google X digging into advanced robotics and more.
Word of Google X had bubbled up in recent months, via MG Siegler, formerly of TechCrunch, and Nicholas Carlson at Business Insider. But New York Times' Clair Cain Miller and Nick Bilton have just delivered a lot more detail with a … Read more
TUSCON, Ariz.--It was as if the panelists couldn't resist the urge to talk smack about Microsoft. At least Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff surely couldn't.
Benioff, the firebrand who often bashes his former boss, Oracle's Larry Elison, shared the stage here today at Techonomy 2011 with Intuit founder Scott Cook and management guru Gary Hamel.
The discussion, moderated by longtime venture capitalist Roger McNamee, was billed as the case for optimism, and the gang had plenty to be optimistic about.
Hamel, a hater of corporate bureaucracy, spoke hopefully about the ability of people to … Read more
Links from Wednesday's episode of Loaded:
Opera launches a mobile browser-based app store
A new iPad magazine app called Zite arrives
Foursquare launches version 3.0 of its mobile app with more emphasis on rewards and recommendations
Mitsubishi has built an elevator that you can operate with voice commands
A new study shows that women who base their self-worth on their appearance share far more photos of themselves on Facebook
China's latest solution to its notorious traffic and road congestion combines the best features of subways and buses into a single mass-transportation vehicle that rides above traffic rather than in it. Or under it.
Eliminating the need to tunnel underground or build expensive bridges, these elevated buses straddle the road on rails and provide enough clearance for other vehicles on the road (except for large delivery trucks) to drive under. This strategy will allow the buses to travel faster than the speed of traffic without the need for dedicated lanes or structures.
Construction of 115 miles of track will … Read more
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