crunchlife: Tag Inspiration

iHologram

Ryan Baxter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:58:00 -0700

An application written by David OReilly gives Apple’s iPhone the illusion of an animated hologram. The trick uses a technique called perspectival anamorphosis. A tabletop surface provides the needed viewing angle of between 35 and 45 degrees.

Thank You Professor Pausch

Ryan Baxter — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:45:00 -0700

The passing of Randy Pausch was posted this morning on Slashdot. Randy was a brilliant professor, technologist, husband, and father. Though I was never fortunate to have studied under professor Pausch, his “Last Lecture” has been inspirational to myself and many others. He will be missed.

Dinosaur on the Loose!

Ryan Baxter — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:52:00 -0700

A dinosaur at the LA Museum of Natural History inspects a group of children. Watching them run away at the end of the video – Priceless.

These are a Few of My Favorite Things

Ryan Baxter — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:17:00 -0700

A few of my favorite applications published major releases this week. The most known being the Firefox web browser. On Tuesday, the Mozilla team launched version 3 of their flagship product, Mozilla Firefox. It includes many bug fixes and an enhanced bookmarking system (love it). Within 24 hours, Firefox wracked up over 8 million downloads making it the most downloaded software ever.

The venerable Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) project finally reached version 1.0. For those not familiar with Unix-like operating systems, Wine allows users to execute Microsoft Windows programs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris. It’s a must have for those who just can’t quite give up their favorite Windows software.

This may not be considered a major release, but the folks at reddit have announced the open-sourcing of their social news website, reddit.com. IMO reddit.com takes the best elements of both slashdot.org and digg.com and combines them to make something even better. Kudos reddit, Mozilla, and Wine!

DIY Multi-Touch Pad

Ryan Baxter — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:04:00 -0700

Festo Air Jelly

Ryan Baxter — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:08:00 -0700

Amazing. I’d love to see more natural design in programming languages.

Boston Dynamics Big Dog March 2008

Ryan Baxter — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:40:00 -0700