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Spirit of Rube Goldberg lives on with Platform 21 Breakfast Machine
Japanese-born, London-based artists Yuri Suzuki and Masa Kumura have been channelling their inner Rube Goldberg to come up with a breakfast machine — a more sophisticated version than the one on offer here .
Foursquare Nearly Doubles Its Playing Field
Easily the biggest complaint about Foursquare is that it’s simply not available in enough cities.
Our Friends From The Next Web Go International, Launch 8 Local Tech Blogs
Before I started writing for TechCrunch, I did a brief stint at The Next Web , a tech blog published out of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. It was fun, mainly because its founders are positively insane and famously quirky. Today, they’re taking their online media company forward with the launch of eight new local blogs focused on technology, startups, news, internet culture and the future of the Web.
Green Watch turns you into a walking environmental sensor
Big cities use sensors in strategic spots to monitor environmental conditions, but they’re not much help when there’s a localized problem far from the nearest monitoring station. La Montre Verte (The Green Watch) from a French group called Fing, turns regular citizens into walking sensors, by sending data by cellphone about noise and ozone levels, which can then be compiled and mapped to show trouble spots. A pilot program was completed in Paris earlier this year, followed up by a much larger test last week at the Picnic ‘09 conference in Amsterdam
Layar Shows Augmented Reality Revolution Is Going Global
In Amsterdam today, the makers of mobile Augmented Reality (AR) browser Layar announced version 2.0 of the browser as well as a slew of new layars which have been produced since they opened up their API to developers . A ‘layar’ is information overlaid on the camera view of your mobile phone, e.g
Six Apart Equips TypePad For Microblogging, Posterous-Style
Microblogging is one popular type of cake, and Six Apart damn well wants a piece of it too. The company has just added a new element to its TypePad offering: a so-called ‘microblog-style blog’ , which I imagine could just as well simply be dubbed a microblog. If you know what Posterous is and does, it’s easy to explain what the new TypePad feature does: exactly the same.
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