We’ve covered our fair share of animal robots from Japan in the last years, but PIGORASS, developed by Yasunori Yamada from the University of Tokyo surely stands out: Yamada has developed a four-legged robot that can walk, jump, and (in a way) gallop, too. Given that Yamada is still a master student and even...
Popular Indian restaurant guide Zomato has launched an events section for the Delhi/NCR and Bengaluru regions, as reported by Medianama. It is also working on an e-commerce section, which is set to be rolled out before the year is through. The website was renamed from Foodiebay to Zomato in November last year as part...
I spoke to an entrepreneur who had a plan. An ambitious, grand plan. As we spoke about the details I discovered a pattern. I noticed that every detail was depending on something else to happen first. She wanted to do one thing, but not before something else happened. She wanted to do another thing...
Image: nytimes blog See Also: The Amazon Tablet Seesmic Flips The Switch On Its Latest Pivot Something’s Happening Here Fred Wilson, the top VC in America and blogger, just wrapped up a charity fundraising campaign he ran through his blog. It’s called Fifty for Fifty, raising $50,000 for his fiftieth birthday. It was a...
Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury would turn 65 today, and in his memory Google has an amazing Google Doodle, which is a pretty great video. Check it out: Don’t Miss: The Evolution Of The Web → Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/Eb6zXx-TVJU/todays-amazing-video-google-doodle-honors-freddie-mercury-2011-9
Tate Museum’s Kirstie Beaven wonders whether museums are using social media creatively enough. She listed some recent activity by Tate: a Twitter discussion around the hashtag #artfilmtitle, a video dialogue with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, and a Flickr collaboration. However, complained Beaven, “all of these things are basically one-offs perhaps that’s the nature...