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This is really cool: a 360-degree panoramic view of an NFL football game.  Click and drag to pan, shift+click to zoom.  Technology is cool.

Briefly how it works: multiple photographs are taken (ideally simulatenously) looking different directions.  Then software ’stitches’ them together to make a seamless image.  Once that is done, it’s just a simple software application to pan and zoom in 360 degrees.

Some impressive new robotics technology:

Not quite as good in early testing:

I’ve started listening to last.fm as I work, and I’ve really enjoyed the swing tag — a nice mix of upbeat swing, not too distracting.

Here’s something I’d love to build:

It’s an RC car modified with a kit to replace the battery power cells with a compact hydrogen fuel cell system. It’s a bit expensive, unfortunately — the whole system would probably be ~$2,000. But it would be educational, right?

This is just a test of the WPVideo plugin I just enabled:

How it works: the two Tesla coils have a primary frequency around 40kHz+ — outside the audible range for humans. The signal can be turned on and off at, say, 440 times per second (440Hz = A) to produce an audible tone. So it’s like radio waves being modulated to carry a signal, but it’s actually lightning