thursday february 15, 2007 : field report
story links: american international toy fair 2007, k’nex, me2, myachi, robotkits, freehand yo-yo, levitating car, rubix revolution, emerson karaoke, scribble mats, my beating heart, all-season sled
story links: american international toy fair 2007, k’nex, me2, myachi, robotkits, freehand yo-yo, levitating car, rubix revolution, emerson karaoke, scribble mats, my beating heart, all-season sled
story: happy valentines day | music: nocturne op post c# by frederic chopin
story links: dr.seuss literature class (thanks, roger!), interactive bar table display, inkless printer, banning ipod oblivion, longest domain name, anti-scientologist keith henson in jail (thanks, david!), wi-fi on the mesh, guidance system shoes, ipod lock, beware of milk from udder, giant sea boats, worst tv fight ever (with captain kirk)
story: backwards through time | music: eclipse solaire by vinc2-exoplanete
story links: kite dance (thanks, jeff!), largest machinima dance, worlds fastest drummer (thanks, tamarah), fast typer, google maps aid war in iraq (thanks, stephane!), google maps aid discovery of rainbow unicorn, daily monster (thanks, leighsah!), giant slug, pcb puppet (thanks, gijs!)
story links: rb field correspondent steve garfield covers the new england belt sanders association’s winter nationals | extra: audience demographic survey
story links: plans to outlaw incandescent lightbulbs, global warming irrefutably linked to human activity, global warming to hit the poor the worst, climate dread, high amount of pack ice drifting in icelandic waters (image), low-toxic folding chair, skin bags, catfish grabbin, unsolved problems, stuff on my cat revisited | extra: *audience demographic survey
story links: rocketboom is not on federated media network, sponsor or advertise on rocketboom, *rocketboom audience survey, graffiti research lab (recent rocketboom video), mooninites (news video), prize for fake websites, art student places boxes of fear in nyc subway circa 2002, megatronics will tennis, replica of boston scare mooninites for sale on ebay, side by side sunset cameras, life-size paper boat (video)
story links: a new york fairy tale, music by au lit les momes
story link: rb field correspondent ruud elmendorp covers clashes at the nairobi mathare slum
story links: intel announces major processor upgrade using hafnium instead of silicon, amd and ibm announces major processor upgrade using hafnium instead of silicon, gemotion 3d projection screen (thanks, christian d.!), digital monoculture in south korea, line rider urban run, painting with maggots (thanks, brian m.!), rb field correspondent andy carvin covers united for peace iraqi war demonstration (full video) | extra: joanne on cnn’s reliable sources (video, transcript)
story: casual friday in the subway with the telephone camera
story links: graffiti research lab, eyebeam and the anti-advertising agency on nyc’s graffiti problem inspired by jo lee’s abstractor tv, original video by steve lambert, music by ratatat (thanks kenyatta!)
story links: on the grand central terminal ceiling (on flickr, on youtube), nokia n93
story links: international bag day, trondheim’s trampe bicycle lift (thanks, ariel!), horizontal bungie jumping, art gallery ping pong, international space station status report on experimentation and docking, refrigerator webcam in japan (response), frank lloyd wright home rendered in half life (full res), silo missle luxury home with runway, plant krypton, hilary clinton running for president, obama barack running for president, john edwards running for president
story links: doug aitken and creative time’s sleepwalkers at the moma | music: april by jacob cooper
story links: world population clock, china population, china imports western culture [1, 2, 3, 4], western culture does not import much chinese culture, david weinberger on china’s effect on the internet, drew on internet’s effect on china, world-wide internet users statistics, china tops 20 million bloggers, top duplicate comments from digg for 2006, digg cliche comment generator, top searches in china
story links: rb field correspondents bre pettis (for make) and steve garfield build a webcam bird feeder (extended tutorial)
story links: rb video mashup (thanks, raymond kristiansen!), martin luther king day (video), comet mcnaught, spitzer telescope spots first glow, world champion freehand drawer, mythical cycloptic flying sea monster, engadget reports 10-million page views during the day apple release day, apple iphone name infringment unlikely, benjamin heckendorns old school game hacks, iphone interface fun on wIndows mobile phones, iphony for palm, iphone - the roach motel business model, you don’t need to lock us in, inside the iphone with 3g arm osx and 3rd party ware, bill gates keynote tag cloud, the flux 2007 ipod festival, computer game scores in the guiness book of world records, reg kehoe & his marimba queens (video)