Uno 1 wheel Motorcycle The bike Uno from BPG Motors is a Transformers Segway Motorcycle. The new version Uno III has 3 wheels which when combined together give the impression that this is a motorcycle with one single wheel. Uno 3 can be transformed into a normal bike with a wheel that will put forward its own. A great concept that makes me think of that Ryno Motors 1-wheel electric scooter. Here the prototype BPG Motors seems more advanced and the startup has received funding and assistance from investors in a reality tv show (see in the video). Its price is about $ 6000, which is fair given that you have a bike right out of the future. Here at Vegas, with techno music : More Info on bpg-motors.com
Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life Previous SlideNext Slide Photo: Ryan Enn Hughes 1999–PRESENT: The author has been designing and wearing computerized eyewear for decades, the gear increasing markedly in sophistication over time. 1978 The author has been designing and wearing computerized eyewear for decades, the gear increasing markedly in sophistication over time. 1994 The author has been designing and wearing computerized eyewear for decades, the gear increasing markedly in sophistication over time. 1998 The author has been designing and wearing computerized eyewear for decades, the gear increasing markedly in sophistication over time. 1998-2002 The author has been designing and wearing computerized eyewear for decades, the gear increasing markedly in sophistication over time. Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. Was it blind luck (pardon the expression) that I was wearing this vision-enhancing system at the time of the accident? Why did I go to such extremes? Of course, I could be wrong.
Flying Machine Arena | A space where flying robots live and learn The problem with GNOME 3 | Felipe Contreras Since I started using Linux I used GNOME, v1.2 in those times. It has always done what I needed, maybe not perfectly, and not fully, but for the most part. GNOME 3 changed all that. I complained about GNOME 3 since day one, and I discussed with GNOME 3 developers many problems with their rationale about why what they were doing made sense, and I foresaw many of the problems they are now facing. I even started the GNOME user survey, in an effort to make GNOME developers see the light. I blogged once before about GNOME 3, but only superficially, and even then GNOME developers didn’t take it well. Two years after the first release of GNOME 3, once GNOME developers have had the time to polish the rough edges, it’s time to make the call; GNOME 3 sucks. The purpose of GNOME Before we start, we need to clarify the purpose of GNOME, or rather; the purpose of any software project in general, which is to be useful to the users. What users want Developer attitude People hate new things Really? gsettings
Fédération Professionnelle du Drone Civil CodeSprint 3 CodeSprint - 3 CodeSprint 3 is an event designed to help bring the best talent from around the world to the startups and companies in the Bay Area that need them. At Interviewstreet we are constantly blown away by the talent that we see on our site everyday. We're starting a series of CodeSprints every month for programmers across the globe starting October. Login to Contest x Login to Interviewstreet Select your login method: Login with Facebook Login with Google Standard Login CodeSprint - 3 Region: USA CodeSpint 3 will be sponsored by an eclectic assortment of companies ranging from small startups to big corporations. Overview This event will be a 24 hour contest. Eligibility CodeSprint 3 is open to all human beings with access to computer. Problems Approximate algorithm problems, AI and algorithmic challenges Contact Still have questions? Are you a company interested in participating in a CodeSprint?
Code Sprint - 2, Algorithmic Problems This post is for all the self proclaimed geeks who love resolving complex algorithmic problems. Below are the questions from code sprint 2, an online coding contest. Time to overclock your brains. Coin toss You have an unbiased coin which you want to keep tossing until you get N consecutive heads. Input: The first line contains the number of cases T. Output: Output T lines containing the answer for the corresponding test case. Sample Input: 4 2 0 2 1 3 3 3 2 Sample Output: 6.00 4.00 0.00 8.00 Permutation This is an approximation solution type problem. Task: Given n and V, find the permutation p that maximizes the sum of the associated values of the consecutive pair coordinates Constraints: n <= 50 Input: First line contains n Next n lines contains n integers, forming the matrix V Output: Space separated permutation of (0,1,2....n-1) Polygon There are N points on X-Y plane with integer coordinates (x i , y i ). Input: First line two integers N and Q. Sub-sequence Weighting Crab Graphs
Amusement of a speculative mind.... CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design (19) Michael Yong: How did Michael Yong get good enough to pass a Quora/Google interview shortly after switching to Computer Science KDE Dev Guide To start developing on the KDE Development Platform you will need to get familiar with the Qt framework, which is one of building blocks of KDE development. Qt (pronounced officially as cute) is a cross-platform application framework based on C++, that is widely used for developing application software with a graphical user interface (GUI). Thus, it is largely a widget toolkit, but is also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command-line tools and consoles for servers. Besides the KDE Development Platform, Qt is most notably used in Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop Elements, OPIE, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency, DreamWorks, Google, HP, Lucasfilm, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Volvo, and Walt Disney Animation Studios. Writing code once to target multiple platforms Creating amazing user experiences Doing more (and faster!) Blending web and native code in a single application
What Is A Framework? Preface The What is better? Smarter programmers or safer programming environments? is the impetus for this article. After I stuck my foot in it (again), saying that .NET and MFC are not frameworks, Paul Watson asked one of the two obvious questions--"what is a framework?" (the other obvious question being, "If .NET and MFC are not frameworks, then what are they?") Introduction From my perspective, a framework does several things: it makes it easier to work with complex technologies it ties together a bunch of discrete objects/components into something more useful it forces the team (or just me) to implement code in a way that promotes consistent coding, fewer bugs, and more flexible applications everyone can easily test and debug the code, even code that they didn't write If I look at this list of vague framework requirements, I come up with a set of specific classifications that define a framework: wrappers. A Framework Is... A Wrapper An Architecture A Methodology Let's look at this word:
Quora’s Technology Examined Quora has taken the tech and entrepreneurial world by storm, providing a system that works so fluidly that it is sometimes hard to see what the big fuss is all about. This slick tool is powered, not only by an intelligent crowd of askers and answerers, but by a well-crafted backend created by co-founders who honed their skills at Facebook. It is not surprising that, with all the smart people using this smart tool, there are many pondering on how it works so well. The NoSQL boffins scratch their heads and ponder such questions as, “Why does Quora use MySQL as the data store rather than NoSQLs such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, etc? In this blog post I will delve into the snippets of information available on Quora and look at Quora from a technical perspective. Components Of Quora The general components that make up Quora are… The last point, the super-fast auto-complete search-box, is one of the defining features of Quora. What’s Cooking Under That Hood? The Search-Box Speedy Queries Nginx
Cascading and inheritance - Web developer guide Go to Previous Section: How CSS works. This is the fourth section of the CSS Getting Started tutorial; it outlines how stylesheets interact in a cascade, and how elements inherit style from their parents. You add to your sample stylesheet, using inheritance to alter the style of many parts of your document in one step. Information: Cascading and inheritance The final style for an element can be specified in many different places, which can interact in a complex way. Three main sources of style information form a cascade . The browser's default styles for the markup language. The user's style modifies the browser's default style. Example When you read this document in a browser, part of the style that you see comes from your browser's defaults for HTML. Part of the style might come from customized browser settings or a customized style definition file. Part of the style comes from stylesheets linked to the document by the wiki server. The <strong> elements are red. More details Challenge