Posts tagged as "future"
Balancion: After a month
Balancion is a Finnish start-up that has been hyped quite a bit, and true, they come with good pedigree. I got invited to the service a while back and now have had time to use it for a month or so. The premise is simple, they will provide users a service that will kick Mint.com [...]
Our first robot! Meet Drobo
As I’ve mentioned earlier, I am a total gadget freak. Not a day goes by when I wouldn’t want to upgrade everything I have in my hub of entertainment, but eventually my nearly Vulcan logic wins and I do nothing. There was one thing, however that caught my attention like a two foot steel pole [...]
The effects of sleep deprivation
I’m sure this topic is pretty close at heart for many people in this day and age, so I thought I would post this short article here as well. Ironically, I have been postponing this post for over a month because of – you guessed it, lack of sleep and choosing whether to write something [...]
Swine flu is not what you should fear
It goes by many names: Pig AIDS, Enchiladapocalypse (my personal favourite), Swinefluenza and many others. Of course, we’re talking about SARS Bird flu H1N5 Swine Flu. The media says it’s a pandemic, just like the black death – the plague that wiped a big bunch of knights and fair maidens to the blue yonder. Yeeaaah. [...]
Stand by me played by the world
I love music, and there’s something inspirational about when people unite in song. Even the cliched ones like the American superstar songs did with We are the world (video below). What comes first, is a video from the Playing for Change project that raises funds to build schools. It’s inspiring and awesome! From the award-winning [...]
The Butt Race – YouTube’s no.1 from 1965
If Youtube and some other technologies required by Youtube, such as the Internet were around in 1965 we would be watching videos like this. Videos directed by 14-year old kids, that are original and funny – and most importantly, have a very catchy name to get those viewers in. See? The next time your parents [...]
Bionic Penguins? You betcha.
Robots are super cool, bionic swimming penguin robots that talk to each other forces me to reinvent the scale of cool. Created by German engineering firm Festo, these robotic penguins use state-of-the-art 3D sonar to navigate around their surroundings and, according to New Scientist, are suitably flexible: The bionic penguins can twist and turn almost [...]
The Death Wheeze of Newspapers
Staying on the topic of printed media, TechCrunch posted an article titled That Whining Sound You Hear Is The Death Wheeze Of Newspapers. It is a very interesting look on the current clashing of the offline and the online. It talks on the items on how the web is “stealing” content from the newspapers and [...]
The week on Varha.com April 6th to 12th
Quite a week it’s been, trying my first ever series of posts and I was pleased and surprised to see the interest and feedback it got. So, here’s the most popular content from the blog this week in a collected post, so you can spend your Easter days enjoying some verbal entertainment (if you’re really [...]
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