Angry Birds. Taken to another level! Oh my… 

Nice vacation reblog :) 

Ok this is not digital. But it is really cool! Reminds us of the Jetsons! 

prettydarncoolstuff:

The Future Of Dining

Dinners are one of the most special times for all families.” This was the idea from where Turkish…

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cnet:

The first call from a cell phone was made 40 years ago today

I painfully ask myself this question every day. Same type of question: what would we become without our smartphones? 

fastcompany:

What Would We Do If The Internet Crashed?

There’s no Plan B for what to do if the entire Net goes down. We should totally get on that.

In a recent TED talk, Danny Hillis, who just so happens to be the third person ever to register a domain name on the Internet and was around during its formative early days, pointed out something that may surprise you: If the Internet was taken out by a virus, an accident, or a deliberate, concentrated attack, we have no “plan B.” And because so many surprising services and systems rely on the Net today, much of what makes our society work could simply cease functioning…

Here’s the full story.

What would you do? 

[Image: Flickr user noii]

Asimov’s Three Laws Of Robotics

7-Year-Old Zora Ball Is the World’s Youngest Game Programmer. A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! 

yasboogie:

7-Year-Old Zora Ball Is the World’s Youngest Game Programmer

The youngest person to create a full version of a mobile application video game. A first grader at Philadelphia’s Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, she’s already more accomplished than everyone you know.

Ball built the app in the Bootstrap programming language, and unveiled her game at FATE’s “Bootstrap Expo” at the University of Pennsylvania.

Apparently some grumpy olds were suspicious that her older brother was really the mastermind behind the program, but Zora showed them. When asked to reconfigure the app on the spot, Ball showed naysayers what was up when she executed the request perfectly.

“We expect great things from Zora, as her older brother, Trace Ball, is a past STEM Scholar of the Year,” said Harambee Science Teacher Tariq Al-Nasir. No pressure, baby geniuses, but there’s an entire world for you to save. Please hurry.

[ht @Jezebel via @PhillyTrib]

What Google Searches About The Future Tell Us About the Present

Sounds boring (bad, bad title!) but definitely worth a read 

emergentfutures:

What Google Searches About the Future Tell Us About the Present

Two academics in the U.K., Warwick Business School associate professor Tobias Preis and Dr. Helen Susannah Moat of University College London, analyzed more than 45 billion public Google searches performed during 2012 and calculated the ratio between searches that included “2013” and those that included “2011.”

They found that countries where “Internet users … search for more information about the future tend to have a higher per-capita GDP,” says Preis, who created a stir in 2010 when he used a similar data-crunching approach to quantify and model stock price fluctuations of companies on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. “The more a country is looking forward, the more successful economically the country is.”

Full Story: Business Week

Google

We’re all social media egocentric fools, aren’t we? 

Who’s going to complain about wifi invasion now? 

parislemon:

courtenaybird:

Telephone Wires over New York, c. 1887-1888

This stresses me out.

We bet that was before the Findus lasagna-horse-meat-scandal, right? 

#JustSaying 

dailydot:

“Snow horses” [via]

Star Wars meets Tron. Sort of.