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www.ping.fm lets you update status msgs to multiple social networks.. how lame..

cowboydynamics:

tl;dr These tiny robots can work as a team, like all those nanobots in scifi movies.

A Harvard engineering team has developed what they call a “kilobot” (named for its ability to work in swarms of thousands, not because it will murder you in your sleep… or will it?).

These robots are small and cheap. They have short range communication capabilities. They basically vibrate on three little legs and chirp to each other with radio. That’s all they can do. 

The point of this research is to figure out how to control swarms of robots. It’s actually quite a difficult programming problem. The video demonstrates their ability to act like little ants, disperse, and follow the leader; these are pretty essential tasks for a swarm of nanobots.

Once the necessary control algorithms are developed, the task will be to make a more capable swarming robot. Something with a hand, or something that can fly like a helicopter.

So we’re nowhere near to the nanobots from I, Robot (movie) or the Dyson machines from Space Odyssey 2010, but we’re taking nanosteps.

Full story on physorg.

(via thenextweb)

Sound reactive Kanye West glasses.. Amazing vid 

Here’s how you make one ;)

http://hackaday.com/2012/01/01/sound-reactive-kanye-glasses-2/#more-64525

The new Timeline makeover of facebook makes it easier for you share your life’s story. But what if you don’t want to share your past to the whole world?

It’s fine when you share something on facebook, but it’s rather unsettling to know that facebook has been storing all the posts that we ever posted. 

And by default facebook makes all your posts ‘public’, even your past posts are made ‘public’. Which means that the entire world can gain access to your posts! Facebook makes it look like this is the right thing.

The reason facebook makes the default as public is because the ads and ad companies need information that are public so that they can target the ‘right’ audience.

I advise readers to change their default privacy to friends. So that your posts are visible only to your friends and not the internet at large.

You can do this by visiting the privacy settings page on facebook.

I also advise readers to make all their past posts as friends too. Otherwise all your past posts will be public and visible to the entire internet.

Online super heroes: Battle for the Internet

The Internet League of Justice!

From the makers of the micro blogging site twitter comes another path breaking social technology named tumblr.

tumblr like twitter is essentially a micro blogging site, but it does not restrict you to just 180 characters. You are free to post text, photos, quotes, links, chats, audio or video. tumblr makes it easy for you to post anything you can find or create.

The best part is you can automatically publish to facebook and twitter. So your friends wont miss out on what you share.

It’s easy to find people who share your interests on tumblr. Explore your interests like never before through tumblr. You can invite people to contribute to your blog or you can contribute to other peoples blogs.

You have hundreds of gorgeous themes to choose from and you can edit or create your own themes.

It is reputed to have the best publishing app for mobile phones. There’s also a sophisticated email publication feature. Whether it’s a thought, picture, video or overheard conversation, tumblr senses what you’re sharing and presents it beautifully.

It’s the best way to blog. It’s the best way to share. It’s free.

Join today. www.tumblr.com :)

Cash Base: Your Personal Finance Manager

Amazing app for browser or phone. Helps you keep track of your expenditure and manage it with a very easy to use and friendly graphic interface. Now you’ll know where those extra bucks went ;)

NOO YEAR!! :D

Caution: Her clothes will fall of!

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