Bruce Shapiro's Mesmerizing Kinetic Sand Drawing Machinesby - Colossal
Nilay Petal complaining about how utterly miserable his life is because playing music is just soooooooo hard these days.
All of the stress and panic I feel when I have to pull out a smartphone and open an app and pick a playlist and select my AirPlay or Bluetooth speakers and wait for it all to work...
Sarcasm? Probably, but the article is written so badly that it's not clear. Yes, I know, my writing is worse, but it's not my full time job.
"First world problem" doesn't even begin to scratch at the outskirts of describing how utterly inane this article is.
Also, nice way to blame it on Apple with what is now a time honored tradition of click-bait headlines at the Verge, "Apple Music and the terrible return of DRM".
By then I knew that with every burger I consumed, I was helping to suck America's rivers dry, munching on a fecal casserole seasoned liberally with E. coli, passively condoning an orgy of torture that would make Hannibal Lecter blanch, and accelerating global warming as surely as if I'd plowed my Hummer into a solar installation.
Considering the speed of change, the money and smarts being thrown at the problem, and the desperate need, it seems likely that sometime in the next decade, Beyond Meat or Impossible Foods or another rival will perfect vegetarian beef, chicken, and pork that is tastier, healthier, and cheaper than the fast-food versions of the real thing. It will be a textbook case of disruptive technology: overnight, meat will become the coal of 2025—dirty, uncompetitive, outcast. Our grandchildren will look back on our practice of using caged animals to assemble proteins with the same incredulousness that we apply to our ancestors' habit of slaughtering whales to light their homes.
This Top-Secret Food Will Change the Way You Eat - Outside Online
UPDATE FROM 2025: Impossible Nuggets and Beyound Burgers are sold at Costco, but they are dwarfed but 'conventional' options. We still await the revolution.
Continuum for Phones – YouTube (video has been removed, dead link here for posterity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oi1B9fjVs4)
Two things going on here:
There is also a third thing which hasn't been explored much and that is "dual screen" which means your phone screen can be doing something different from the big screen it's attached to. This whole idea is certainly not new, but all the previous attempts have failed. If this works (requires new hardware that has not been announced yet) Microsoft will have pulled off something truly great – a bunch of dumb screens driven by one smart device.
UPDATE: Of course Microsoft couldn't, or chose not to, pull this off. How long can a company coast on old products?
Google I/O 2015 – Introducing Jump – GoPro+Youtube App+Cardbard Part 10 – YouTube. (video has been removed, dead link here for posterity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpW4LuNQ1ZQ)
UPDATE: Of course Google killed it. At what point does it become clear that Google is just a place for great ideas to go and be murdered?
Morake says he doesn't usually accept requests more than 10 minutes away, because customers tend to get impatient and cancel when he's halfway there. He finally accepted mine because it was coming from a hospital and seemed desperate. "So it called one time, two times, three times — I said, 'Maybe this person don't have nobody else.'"
The contrast is so striking — Morake, who accepted a ride against his own best interests out of human kindness, and Uber, which treats him and so many other drivers as utterly disposable numbers in an equation.
"I was an undercover Uber driver" by Emily Guendelsberger - Philadelphia City Paper (dead link)
Pebble Time review – The Verge
Stupid rich people buying bad art at high prices. Also, said art is ripped off.
A rip off artist in every sense of the word (also an asshole).
Google shows what it knows about us in new privacy hub - The Verge
The map below shows where Google knows that I've been for the last 30 days. It does not seem to track routes when using Google Maps, at least not here. Seems like something they would track though. But at least Google is showing me something of how is tracks me, this is (somewhat) reassuring.
I think what Google's I/O keynote was about is a post-mobile world. It's about ubiquitous computing that is contextually-aware and identity-aware — about Google knowing who you are, where you are, and what you're doing at all times. From your doorknob to your desktop.
via Daring Fireball