by | Jan 25, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Sydney Morning Herald Kevin Abosch sells photograph of potato for $1.5 million by Megan Levy The Kevin Abosch photo Potato #345 which has sold for $1.5 million. Photo: Kevin Abosch The chips certainly aren’t down for photographer Kevin Abosch. He...
by | Jan 23, 2015 | Literary News
from Adventures in YA Publishing Editor Samantha Streger of Full Fathom Five Digital Today I have a very special guest to introduce. My editor, the lovely Samantha Streger! The best news? FFF Digital is open to submissions (including YA) Read below to find out more...
by | Jan 22, 2015 | Weirdness
from The New York Times How Pink Is Your Floyd? The Rise of the Smartbulb By BOB TEDESCHI Get ready to dust off the old jokes about how many (fill in the blank) people it takes to change a light bulb. I just spent a week changing some of the bulbs in my house, and the...
by | Jan 21, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Mashable 100 humanoid robots perform synchronized dance routine in Tokyo One hundred humanoid robots performed a synchronized dance routine in Tokyo on Monday. Each of the one hundred ‘Robi’ robots weighs just 2.2 pounds and stands just a little over...
by | Jan 20, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from TechWorld Japanese androids hold news conference, chat with baby droids The female robots introduced a pair of tabletop conversation robots, CommU and Sota by Tim Hornyak (IDG News Service) If you find lifelike robots unnerving, try attending a news conference...