Mauri tiki in Rotarua New Zealand

Posted by flickr on January 30th, 2009
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Water Powered Jetpack (Video)

Posted by Lem on January 30th, 2009
We’ve been waiting for years, decades actually, for personal jetpacks to become a reality. Now, at long last, it seems almost possible, at least for short rides, to experience the thrill. An inventor has come up with an innovative jetpack design that uses water instead of fuel for jet propulsion. Amazing New Water-Powered Jet Pack - Watch more free videos

Mark Coleran - Reel

Posted by admin on January 29th, 2009

Really interesting movie interfaces worth looking at.

Announcing TikiTV, the Best Open Source VJ Software Ever!

Posted by rajbot on January 27th, 2009

TikiTV is an awesome open-source video mixing application for Mac OSX, developed by peliom and VJ Science. If you are a video nerd, you should check this out:


  • decodes 6 full-quality 720×480 MPEG-2 streams at 60fps
  • on screen preview of both 3-channel decks
  • fullscreen output to second display (vga projector)
  • rock solid 60fps output, no dropping frames
  • requires MacBook Pro 2GHz or higher

You can download TikiTV here. For the video hax0rz out there, you can clone the the github repo.

tikitv

Major Robot Events in Question?

Posted by Lem on January 26th, 2009
With the current economic downturn impacting most companies, and individuals, worldwide, we’ve started to wonder if it will have any effect on some of our favorite robot competitions. So, we decided to do a little checking. RoboGames 2009 – Scheduled for June 12th (Friday) through the 14th (Sunday) at Fort Mason in San Francisco. We were able to confirm that the dates are firm and the event is expected to...

“The Making of the Peugeot 3008 Crossover Commercial” (Video)

Posted by Lem on January 26th, 2009
Without a doubt, the most valuable Robots Dreams resource is our readers. Within minutes of posting about the new Peugeot 3008 Crossover commercial featuring robots, Crab-fu wrote in to share the ‘Making’ video (see below). The video features interviews with the developers and documents how the video production process. Please note: it’s in French. Nevertheless, you can get a lot out of it, even if you don’t understand the language....

French Parkor Robots Play Tag (Video)

Posted by Lem on January 26th, 2009
We’ve never been big fans of Peugeot designs, but the latest Peugeot 3008 Crossover commerical (see video below) featuring some awesome robots (and one carbon-based lifeform/driver) showing off their ‘parkour’ skills has definitely captured our attention.

This is Rock and Roll.

Posted by rajbot on January 22nd, 2009

Wait for it…

Is It Real, or, Is It Robotic?

Posted by Lem on January 21st, 2009
Babies spend their first few years integrating and understanding a flood of confusing sounds, images, and other sensory input until they are able to start doing things that we, as adults, consider to be trivial. Over time, their brain makes some sort of connection between the image of a hand and the tactile sensations, and it becomes their hand. However, adults have considerable difficulty following the same process. For example,...

Obama Street

Posted by rajbot on January 21st, 2009

Timmmii and crew changed all the Bush St. signs to read OBAMA St. They got the *entire* street before the cops stopped them!

Satisfied Clients

Originally uploaded by Matthew Williams Design


This pic is awesome:


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