Google Glass and Google Hangouts

To get an idea of how it feels to wear Google Glass, check this out:

http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels/

Hey Bruce, here is the Google Glass demo that I was telling you about!  

This also demos "Google Hangouts" which let you video chat (video conference) with multiple people on your computer or mobile device (Android or iPhone).  Look for a big video stream above a row of smaller video streams, kinda like this image from a hangout with President Obama.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/politics&id=8524441


A month ago President Obama hosted a "hangout". The live streams of people in the hangout are displayed on the smaller screens across the bottom, and whoever is speaking shows up on the big screen. Here is the hangout.

Hangouts are really cool...and free...

FitKabab

FitKabab

This pole entered through the windshield on the passenger side...

...and exited through the rear side window on the driver's side.

The passenger was struck by the pole, but, luckily, did not lose consciousness and did not have any broken bones.

Project Glass: One day...

Project Glass "took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do."

Smily Cancer

In 2008 I admired the Smily Faces created with DNA from the TED Talk Paul Rothemund: Casting spells with DNA.

Today I found another Smily Face picture formed by the nucleus of a cancer cell:



From the Discover Magazine Bad Atronomy blog:

Australian researchers at the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research were investigating how the protein beta-catenin invades a cell’s nucleus and causes it to become cancerous, when they spotted the protein apparently mocking them.

Cool.

A History of the Sky

This is a unique, interesting time lapse video.

This is a year-long time-lapse study of the sky. A camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco captured an image of the sky every 10 seconds. From these images, I created a mosaic of time-lapse movies, each showing a single day. The days are arranged in chronological order. My intent was to reveal the patterns of light and weather over the course of a year.

A History of the Sky by Ken Murphy

Cat mom hugs baby kitten

For Michelle...



and this...

FIFTY PEOPLE ONE QUESTION

FIFTY PEOPLE ONE QUESTION - GALWAY, IRELAND 2011 by Kamil Krolak



How does this make you feel?

Geography Quiz

Did you know "the Middle East"' stretches as far west as the Western Sahara in Africa? What is the smallest Middle Eastern country? Test your knowledge on a new drag-and-drop game by clicking this link or the map graphic.



Thanks Jessica!

A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning.

Forecast is SNOW in San Jose

The forecast is for SNOW in San Jose and much of California tonight and tomorrow! The last time there was snow on the ground at sea level was February 5, 1976.



http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=95120

update: although there was plenty of snow in the mountains around us, no snow fell on our house. :(

Real Life Esher Waterfall

A Real Life Esher Waterfall...wow...

Portrait of Watson

Here is my portrait of Watson, the IBM computer that competed on Jeopardy!



Gina jokingly asked me "Can I throw this out?" and I replied "No, that is my portrait of Watson! Can you see how happy he is?". :)

Volkswagen Commercial: The Force

Here is the full length version of the "Mini Darth Vader" commercial.



The super bowl version was only 30 seconds.

The Google Car that drives itself

Google developed a self driving car that can deal with freeways, intersections, traffic lights, stop signs, cyclists, pedestrians,...even back seat drivers! :)

Here is the link to an ABC video of Test Driving the Google Car posted October 12, 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0I5DHOETFE

Android in Spaaaace!

Some Googlers sent some Android phones into SPACE with weather balloons! They posted these two videos on the Google Mobile Blog.

This first video is cute :) and sad...



This second video show a tiny bit of how they did it.



Arshan (in the YouTube video above) and I left Sun Microsystems for Google at almost the same time.

If TED Talks ran out of smart people

David and I were talking about TED Talks, and then he sent me this Joy of Tech comic: If TED Talks ran out of smart people



http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1478.html

James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss

David and I discussed a vast range of topics this morning, including this TED talk:
James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss

"Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.

X = G / (C*H*R*O*M - 3)

There was a secret challenge in the video I posted Monday and the reward was a new Chrome Notebook.

This frame from the video contains the puzzle, and the solution is posted in the Google Chrome Blog.

Please leave a message after the beep

Please leave a message after the beep

I wrote this for our answering machine.

Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review

Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched

Based on the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google this year, Zeitgeist captures the spirit of 2010.



Check out the Year in Review video, and then browse the full Google Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched site.