Killer origami

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Killer Kangaroos! No comment from the
Killer Rabbit

Killer Kangaroos! No comment from the
Killer Rabbit 07/09/2004 03:03 AM
make sure you pack an extra boomerang .. quite aggressive

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Origami Cameras

Origami Cameras 06/28/2004 06:57 AM

These fully-functional paper cameras from IDNProShop are fantastic. I wonder if they take real film or if you have to fold that up, too? (Thanks, Naoya!)
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Wired's NextFest Gadget Concepts [Gizmodo]

Insect Origami

Insect Origami 09/23/2004 05:17 AM
David Pescovitz: These origami insects and arthropods are incredibly beautiful. This 5" Acrocinus longimanus (Harlequin beetle) was folded from a single uncut square of paper. Master origami artist (and "origami mathematician") Robert Lang explains how it's done in a series of books. Link

T-shirt origami

T-shirt origami 05/14/2004 03:26 PM
Video clip lets you marvel at this perfect way to fold a T-Shirt. It looks so good I almost think they videotaped someone unfolding a shirt and played it backwards. Link (Thanks, Ric!)

Robot Origami

Robot Origami 05/25/2004 11:37 AM
New Scientist reports on the graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University we've linked to previously who built a robot that can make simple origami constructions. The work is aimed at developing robotic systems that can manipulate various materials encountered in daily life. From researcher Devin Balkcom's site:

"Why origami?  Origami is a fresh challenge for the field of robotic manipulation.  Paper is flexible; robots are best at manipulating rigid things.  Even if we model origami as an articulated rigid body (by building our origami out of really stiff cardboard with hinges along creases), it still has a complicated mechanical structure."  Link

Downloadable Origami Motorcycles

Downloadable Origami Motorcycles 12/19/2003 11:30 AM

Origami Folding Robot

Origami Folding Robot 12/15/2003 06:55 PM
Devin Balkcom and Matt Mason, working at the CMU Robotics Institute have created the world's first origami folding robot. The robot can fold a variety of traditional origami shapes. While the shapes are simple, the interesting part is that the robot determines the sequences of moves and folds needed on its own. What have they learned from the exercise? "For now, human hardware and software are superior: human fingers are great tools for manipulating delicate paper, and human intuition and intellect far outclass robotic planning capabilities." Devin's website includes a Quicktime video of the robot in action.

" Dexterous Robot Conquers Art of
Origami"

" Dexterous Robot Conquers Art of
Origami" 05/26/2004 09:00 AM

Origami mini-iPod from rip-off artists
CDW

Origami mini-iPod from rip-off artists
CDW 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
From CDW comes an origami mini-iPod. A lot lamer than the other origami iPod, which is unsurprising, given that CDW are a bunch of rip-off artists (I once ordered an iPod from them, got a confirmation, and then got a phone-call telling me they were sold out the iPod at the price they'd confirmed, but could sell me one for $200 more). 760K PDF Link

Computational Origami and David Huffman

Computational Origami and David Huffman 06/22/2004 09:00 AM

The World's First Origami Folding Robot

The World's First Origami Folding Robot 05/14/2004 07:24 PM

Killer Mobiles for Killer Apps

Killer Mobiles for Killer Apps 02/01/2005 08:35 PM

Continuing my series on mobile platforms, I now think killer mobile apps need mobile devices designed like game consoles, meaning that it has one or two slots for application cartridges.  Each cartridge contains one or more applications.  Cellphones would come with a built-in cartridge containing the phone app as well as others.

Adding a cartridge adds new apps.  Applications have two modes: running and stopped.  The Next-App button (aka Appy button) activates (brings to front) each running apps in turn.  Some apps can activate itself when an event fires (phone call received).  To see the list of available apps, keep the Next-App button pressed for a second.

Eventually, app cartridges will be advance to become platform cartridges, taking over the full functionality of the mobile device to offer better application platform services than the one that came with the device (i.e. easy to use app download service that auto-configures apps for your device).  If you don't like the built-in calender, just stop it and run a third-party calendar instead.

mine: paper dragon w/ origami dollar
bill wings

mine: paper dragon w/ origami dollar
bill wings 06/24/2004 08:03 AM
Show us your computer mascot! >> flash, engaging music

A new killer app

A new killer app 03/25/2005 01:35 AM
Inspired by Abe Vigoda: The Terri Shiavo mortality-status Firefox plugin.

Spy Killer v4.0

Spy Killer v4.0 09/24/2004 07:32 PM
Spy Killer is an award-winning spy software / spyware and adware detector, remover, and shield . Spy Killer also includes a stealth feature to hide its presence. The spy software / adware scan detects and eliminates over 200 hidden programs. Spy Killer's shield feature prevents certain spyware / adware from being installed on your PC. This unique feature works even while Spy Killer is running silently in the background in stealth mode. [Shareware $49.97 7 Days 4.2 MB]

The Killer App

The Killer App 07/09/2004 10:24 AM
[Frank via Jim]...

Program Killer

Program Killer 06/17/2004 09:07 PM
Lack of Updates

Other News: Car Killer

Other News: Car Killer 07/12/2004 11:01 AM
David Giri is developing a weapon to disable cars with a high-intensity electromagnetic pulse.

Zero PopUp Killer XP v5.2

Zero PopUp Killer XP v5.2 12/09/2003 08:42 PM
Zero Popup Killer XP is a small, effective, and intelligent anti-pop-up software product that can kill annoying pop-up windows without human intervention by using artificial intelligence and intelligent agent technologies. It is light on your system's resources and resides in the system tray. It works as an add-in for Internet Explorer and automatically starts when you start up the IE browser. [Shareware $12.00 1.64 MB]

The Linux Killer

The Linux Killer 07/28/2004 04:04 AM

Mark of a killer

Mark of a killer 05/14/2004 06:15 AM
USA Today May 14 2004 10:43AM GMT

Dick Is A Killer

Dick Is A Killer 07/11/2004 10:45 PM
From Etan comes a Liberal Dance Party tune: Dick Is A Killer Some more tracks at the Party Party.

Killer UCAVs on the Way

Killer UCAVs on the Way 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Noah Shachtman has written an interesting update on UCAVs (unmanned combat aerial vehicles) being developed by the US military such as the Boeing X-45 and Northrop Grumman X-47A that we've reported on quite a bit in the past. The article references a recent Wired story on UCAVs. In an amusing follow-up, Noah also mentions a Vietnam-era drone that saw some action over Baghdad.

Killer companies

Killer companies 07/02/2004 08:13 AM
Post-"Fahrenheit," the stellar documentaries -- including "The Corporation" and "Imelda" -- just keep coming. Plus: A moody meditation on familial love, or homoerotic cologne ad?

The Killer Library App?

The Killer Library App? 06/01/2004 11:22 PM

Ho w to Make Money with Digital Lifestyle Aggregators - Part I

"We call it digital lifestyle aggregation and it's based upon a number of assumptions - first and foremost being 'provide compelling experiences to your end-users.' That said - here's what you can do to deliver these oft sought after compelling experiences....

1. Integration. The secret to making things easy to use is in providing an integrated environment where built-in constructs (such as IM, image gallery or friends network) provide all the functionality end-users expect. We call these 'commodity features' and satisfying end-user's expectations as to what software should be - is what it's all about. These features have to be taken for granted and assumed to be there - everywhere - all the time. Even this nascent AO Zaibatsu system provides built-in friends networks to learn and leverage off of. And they have to be as easy to use as saving off a file or turning up the volume.

In the future ALL software products and services will have built-in digital camera support, cell phone gateways, universal messaging, real-time presence management, personal publishing, social networking and oh - did we forget to say - web services? But most will just patch-quilt on these functional modules, never thinking through how an integarted approach can not only make it easy to use and viable, but also achieve an elegant design result, which then causes all sorts of OTHER things to happen!

By providing an integrated environment with lots of great things for people to do, it becomes instantly more accessible and viral. By pre-wiring all of these applications and services - so that they work seamlessly together - OH MY GOD - you just may yet end up with a series of compelling experiences - 'cause heaven forbid - maybe not ALL of our end-users are the same....

2. Aggregation. Do you realize that the digital downloading universe expects end-users to listen to ONLY the songs they download from one vendor on their jukeboxes? That it's impossible to mix and match music you've bought from multiple vendors? That's like only being able to play CDs you bought from Tower Records on your CD player! Apple also prevents you from loading music from more than one machine at a time - so you're out of luck if you have two or more machines.

That's the world we're in today.

RSS News aggregators are becoming understood (you can subscribe to me here at AO Zaibatsu for instance or at my other blog - @ blog.canter.com) so what happens when we can start to aggregate other things as well? Like our digital identity or other forms of expression besides blogs?...

Aggregation is a killer app - that no one owns. It's public domain. Everyone benefits from it. So is integration as well.

3. Customization. So now let's combine Integration and Aggregation with end-users intense desire to have their software do what THEY want it to do. To have the software adapt to their appropriate usage level (beginner, average or advanced), their sex, age, demogarphics - even their location....

This is all happening - but it's all happening as SEPARATE web servcies or web apps....

I'm sorry to tell you this guys - but that doesn't work. You need more than just a single feature to acheive the oft sought after 'compelling experience" we started this post with. To start to reap the benefits of digital lifestyle aggregation - you need to get smart about architecting systems that rely upon XML, open standards and web services.

So personalization and customization find their destiny intermixed with Integration and Aggregation. The only way to produce compelling enough experiences is by integrating a wide range of built-in constructs, combining that with aggregated web servcies and content and topping it all off with unprecedented levels of control and customization. In one product or service." [AlwaysOn, via T he Doc Searls Weblog]

A long excerpt, I know, but even though the author focuses on commercial applications, revenue streams, and open source software, it's worth reading through this in the context of libraries.

I've said before that aggregation is a killer app, one well-suited to libraries and the kind of information to which we provide access. External projects such as LibraryLookup bring home hard the need for our products to very quickly adapt to web services and XML back-ends. And now we're seeing another big push for integration in our industry - federated searching, OpenURL and SFX resolvers, and statewide union catalogs are good examples of this.

So what would aggregation, integration, and personalization mashed together in one app, designed from the ground up to work together, look like in the library world? Would *that* be our version of the killer app?

Killer Instinct

Killer Instinct 05/24/2004 07:51 AM
Killer Instinct 0.41

The Gmail Killer

The Gmail Killer 06/02/2004 01:31 PM
Aventure Media is the Gmail killer. No more waiting for Gmail to be released, Aventure Media is already offering 2GB of storage. [via theregis ter]

Killer frozen out of will

Killer frozen out of will 02/13/2004 08:05 PM
Police use new powers to prevent a convicted murderer cashing in on her husband's will.

A killer Web site

A killer Web site 02/12/2004 05:46 AM
USA Today Feb 12 2004 10:06AM GMT

Popup Killer v4.0

Popup Killer v4.0 06/19/2004 07:21 AM
PopUp Killer is a small program that can automatically close previously selected Windows. [Shareware $13.00 30 Days 3.4 MB]

Psycho Killer

Psycho Killer 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
A follow-up to this post about our sad Christmas tree: This past Sunday I decided that the tree had to go and I was the one to do it (since I'd put so much of a fuss over throwing it...

An Appetite Killer for a Killer
Appetite? Not Yet

An Appetite Killer for a Killer
Appetite? Not Yet 04/18/2005 11:23 PM
Hoodia gordonii, a plant from Africa, is being touted as nature's hunger buster, but its effectiveness and safety is under question.

Containing a Killer Flu Virus

Containing a Killer Flu Virus 04/14/2005 07:00 AM
Laboratories worldwide destroy samples of the 1957 Asian flu virus they received as part of a proficiency testing program. Between 1 million and 4 million people were killed by the pandemic nearly 50 years ago.

The Game Boy killer?

The Game Boy killer? 10/30/2003 12:36 PM
Another glowing review of Zodiac, Tapwave's Palm PDA designed specifically for playing games, this one by Ric Manning of Portables.About.com. But forget about the Zodiac being a N-Gage killer (the N-Gage is already doing a perfectly fine job of that) -- Ric goes so far as to call the this thing a "Game Boy Killer," saying it has a screen that puts the Game Boy to shame. Read...

Why There Will Be No iPod Killer -- Ever

Why There Will Be No iPod Killer -- Ever 03/30/2005 11:33 AM

Why? Because it look slike the whole consumer electronics industry is now trying to "kill" the iPod instead of inventing something of their own. By Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Network

Killer Bug Looks Like a Virus

Killer Bug Looks Like a Virus 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
Health experts believe a deadly flu-like illness that has killed nine people is likely a virus. They’re also encouraged that some victims seem to be recovering. [Wired News] That’s a relief. Our antibiotics can’t kill it, but the human body...

Killer Gaming Rig

Killer Gaming Rig 03/22/2005 09:57 PM

The Next Mobile Killer App

The Next Mobile Killer App 02/01/2005 08:35 PM

The first killer-app for mobiles is the phone calls.  I believe static downloadable audio contents such as music, audio books, and podcasts will be the next killer-app. Only design problem is sharing one battery for both critical (phone calls) and casual (listening to audio) uses which calls for smarter power management and more powerful batteries.

Great user experience and clever hardware design is where Apple excels at so I expect Apple to introduce iPod phones within a year or two at the latest.

Unfortunately, screen-based applications and dynamic audio contents, driven by voice browser technologies, will continue to struggle in the near future due to tedious user experience.  Mobile killer apps must be available at the user's fingertip, not hidden behind a wall of patience.

Which One is the iPod Killer?

Which One is the iPod Killer? 09/17/2004 10:22 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 18 2004 1:50AM GMT
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Kurt Wenner - Gallery of Work

Kurt Wenner - Gallery of Work 11/19/2003 08:04 AM
Katutaiteilija Kurt Wennerin uskomattomia luomuksia .. The amazing 3-D sidewalk chalk art of Kurt Wenner .. Freaky

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" Kurt Wenner - Gallery of Work - 3D
sidewalk chark art"

" Kurt Wenner - Gallery of Work - 3D
sidewalk chark art" 11/19/2003 03:31 PM

More Liquid Cooling Diagrams

More Liquid Cooling Diagrams 06/17/2004 04:32 PM
Appleinsider publishes more diagrams of the Liquid Cooling System found in the high end PowerMac G5s. The new cooling system is apparently necessar...

Common Cabling Diagrams

Common Cabling Diagrams 08/22/2004 11:50 AM

Ghost Diagrams 0.7 (Default branch)

Ghost Diagrams 0.7 (Default branch) 02/05/2005 09:32 PM
Ghost Diagrams is a small program that takes sets of tiles and tries to find patterns into which they may be formed. The patterns it finds when given randomly chosen tiles are often surprising, and frequently resemble floral decorations.

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Changes:
This release can use either a square or a hexagonal underlying grid. There is now a smarter assembly algorithm which will not make same mistake twice. The assembly process has been animated.

Visio schemas link data in diagrams

Visio schemas link data in diagrams 04/16/2004 09:10 PM
Microsoft has released documentation that allows corporate and third-party developers to take full advantage of the XML-based schemas, called DatadiagramML, in its Office Visio diagramming tool.

How to remove unwanted Diagrams/Pictures
from the Table of Contents

How to remove unwanted Diagrams/Pictures
from the Table of Contents 07/14/2004 11:43 AM
Tech-Recipes Jul 14 2004 4:11PM GMT

Diagrams detail Apple's new liquid
cooling system

Diagrams detail Apple's new liquid
cooling system 06/17/2004 04:37 PM

Diagrams detail Apple's new liquid
cooling system.

Diagrams detail Apple's new liquid
cooling system. 06/17/2004 09:21 PM
AppleInsider: Diagrams detail Apple's new liquid cooling system. Yes, there is really a pump.

Visio 2003 Sample: 20 Sample Diagrams

Visio 2003 Sample: 20 Sample Diagrams 08/29/2004 11:34 PM
This download includes 20 sample Visio 2003 diagrams related to support and sales demos.

"I weigh approximately 175 pounds
(subject to g = 9.8 m/ss), and am
neither a dragon nor a pinata. […] You
should like words, science, and video
games. But you shouldn’t be ugly either.
Or male. Or a zombie dragon, powerful in
life, unstoppable in death. "

"I weigh approximately 175 pounds
(subject to g = 9.8 m/ss), and am
neither a dragon nor a pinata. […] You
should like words, science, and video
games. But you shouldn’t be ugly either.
Or male. Or a zombie dragon, powerful in
life, unstoppable in death. " 07/14/2004 10:19 PM

New RMK-139 20" LCD Keyboard Drawer with
Mouse

New RMK-139 20" LCD Keyboard Drawer with
Mouse 04/17/2005 04:52 AM
The RMK-139 is a 2U rack mount LCD monitor keyboard drawer designed to be installed in a standard 19" rack or equipment cabinet. The display unit consists of a 20.1" UXGA TFT active matrix LCD with 1600 x 1200 pixels resolution. The keyboard is a full-size keyboard with a separate cursor pad. A PS/2 mouse and a large mouse pad are included for high-precision cursor control. A set of push-buttons located on the front bezel let you access the on-screen menu to adjust the displays properties. [PRWEB Apr 17, 2005]

Cat Survives Cross Country Trip in
Drawer (AP)

Cat Survives Cross Country Trip in
Drawer (AP) 05/10/2004 01:03 PM
AP - Lilly didn't see any of her two-week cross country trip from Tarrytown, N.Y., to Reno.

Merge multiple OmnWeb5 windows into one
tab drawer

Merge multiple OmnWeb5 windows into one
tab drawer 06/22/2004 09:14 AM
I've recently switched my default browser to OmniWeb 5 and stumbled across this nifty little feature. I like to have all my open web pages as tabs in the tab drawer of one master browser window. Occasionally an app or site wi...

How old is Kurt Loder?

How old is Kurt Loder? 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
A couple weeks ago, madness ensued as the staff of Six Apart tried to guess Kurt Loder's age. The topic of Kurt Loder came up when I asked a certain member of the team whether he had read Loder's book,...

Diagram Studio v3.0

Diagram Studio v3.0 11/18/2003 11:35 AM
Diagram Studio allows you to draw flow charts, organizational charts, technical drawings, forms, business presentations and annotations. [Shareware $50.00 8.24 MB]

Celebs rake in top-drawer swag on
charity circuit

Celebs rake in top-drawer swag on
charity circuit 12/09/2003 06:11 PM
Good LA Times article about the lavish perks demanded by stars who attend charity events.

But many celebrities appear at these events not solely out of the goodness of their hearts. They come to line their pockets. "Stars know they can literally steal from charity," said Steven Fox, a Monterey businessman who worked with Tonken on a 1995 fundraiser for the Tommy Lasorda Jr. Memorial Foundation, named after the baseball legend's late son. "Otherwise, they don't perform. They don't appear." Actor David Schwimmer, who has made many millions of dollars starring in NBC's "Friends," received a pair of Rolex watches worth $26,413 in advance of a 1997 charity gala that had among its intended beneficiaries the John Wayne Cancer Institute.

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10.3: Drag images directly from
Preview's thumbnail drawer

10.3: Drag images directly from
Preview's thumbnail drawer 12/03/2003 11:02 AM
In Panther's Preview App, you can drag images from the side drawer and drop onto Apps, Dock icons and other windows, folders, the desktop. Anything you can do with the original file. This is useful for checking a CD or folder...

Killer origami

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