The music industry just can’t seem to learn to change with the market. Now you can not even make a back up of your MP3’s without chancing a lawsuit.

What’s next?
• You can only play your MP3 one time before it self destructs.
• Get it directly injected into your brain, then when the song is finished in your head it’s erased so you can not illegally replay it in your head

Maybe I should open a digital music insurance company. If you can’t back it up and your iPod falls to the bottom of the ocean with 354 songs on it, you are going have a substantial loss. I’ll be watching the outcome of this case. EMI Says You Can’t Store Your Music Files Online digg

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This is pretty cool and a little creepy too. You can see it reacting to stabilize itself when something happens.

A 340lb payload. Thats a lot of equipment or 2 adults. Imagine this instead of a wheelchair.
Check out their Little Dog too. Boston Dynamics

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Here are a couple of cool little apps that will have you playing with physics.

Here is something very similar for the iPhone/iPod touch that takes advantage of the touch screen and axis sensors.
iPhysics

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This is a little Geeky, but totally cool.

Make

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Hulu.com - Wow, I like it!

What is Hulu?  Here’s what Hulu has to say about themselves.

Hulu offers current primetime shows like The Office, Prison Break, Bionic Woman, House and Bones, and episodes from TV classics like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miami Vice, Arrested Development and more. We’ve also partnered with premier content owners like E! Entertainment, FUEL TV and SciFi Network and USA Networks to add to our growing collection of premium programming.

I finally received my beta invite and was expecting to have some dislike for a major network backed content provider.  I knew they were locking it down and also were not allowing the ability to skip commercials.  After previewing a small selection of their content I decided I would start off with an episode of The Simpsons.  The initial commercial is only about 6 second.  Very bearable.  There were two more commercials during  playback and the progress bar indicates where they are.  Those also were very short.  The playback was smooth and had the option of opening in a smaller pop-up window, which I enjoyed.  Some of the other options available were; full screen viewing, mail to a friend, vote and embed tags for your site (which I will try below).  You also have the ability to clip the video and mail or embed only the clipped version.

The content list is impressive for something still in beta.  This is a good sign that they plan to be around for a while and truly are receiving good support from the networks.

A sample of the current shows.

• The Office
• Heroes
• Scrubs
• Chuck
• Kitchen Nightmares

Some of the dated content.

• The A-Team
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Airwolf (wow, who predicted would be broadcasting this again.  Yes, I’ll admit I used to watch this one too)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• WKRP in Cincinnati

See a more complete list here (PDF format)

It’s exciting to see the media companies finally making it convenient for customers to get content legally instead of prosecuting customers for downloading it illegally while waiting for you to catch up with the market.

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Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a walking motorcycle.

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I was reviewing some of my ‘cool sites’ bookmarks tonight and came across this cool high powered hand held laser site. I was thinking it would be fun to get one. So I did a Google search to see if I could find any at a better price. I found some cool sites, but one in particular stood out. I noticed something I found a bit odd. Considering all the high level science, engineering and manufacturing that must go into a product such as a 125mw + hand held laser, how could something so simple be over looked? Then it occurred to me, they are no rocket scientists.

Notice anything wrong with these pictures?

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