Articles Posted August 2009
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Another visit to the robot world
The name “Chew-Chew” could refer to a dog, or its habit, or a restaurant, or a joke about what people do with their food. But in some circles, Chew-Chew is a robot. Built almost a…
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Should your marketing be set to dance music?
These days when you’re at a wedding performing the chicken dance, beware of the guy wielding a video camera from the edge of the dance floor. You just know he’s hoping to capture something outrageous…
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Neighborhood Watches Going Digital
Telephone chains are moving to email lists and message boards. Today, the National Sherriffs’ Association website has just about 20,000 block watch groups registered. This is four times the number it had one year ago. With…
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Rock on
Traced back to its roots the word “guitar” originated from an ancient word for “string.” The word “Hero” in Greek mythology is a reference to a demi-God. And in today’s world the recently deceased Les…
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Rubix Cubism
French urban artist, Invader, just previewed his latest collection of work called “Low Fidelity.” This works features a style he calls “Rubikubism” in which he uses the colored interfaces as pixels to create album…
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More art from the skateboard graffiti world
So often nowadays we happen upon some interesting, contemporary and whimsical objects in art galleries only to discover the artistic roots can be traced to skateboarding and graffiti. And such is the case with an…
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Text for sandwiches and coffee
Noah Glass was working in a Johannesburg when he noticed how much people there used their mobile phones for financial transactions. There, much more than here, people use the mobile phones like debit cards for…
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Wi-fi with coffee is going away
It’s still happening mostly in New York and possibly California but if the trend moves across the land, those “Free Wi-fi” signs will be a thing of the past. And how. Where once, laptop bearing…
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Viral-Video Dominance
Who held last week’s number one watched TV spot? Evian’s “Rappers Delight” commercial. This whimsical spot featuring rollerskating babies was made by ad agency BETC Euro RSCG for Evain’s ”Live Young” campaign. It just goes to…
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The sand is the hourglass
When a geologist publishes a book, chances are it isn’t a steamy, romance novel or a whodunit. Instead the expectation is that such a book would be boring and filled with scientific jargon that doesn’t…
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