This story might actually make a comeback later in the week as its not ‘officially’ announced until Thursday, but none the less its still of internet. Right now you can accomplish the same thing that Chrysler is doing on your own by throwing a laptop in your car with a 3G/EVDO/etc card, but having your car permanently connected to the Internet is is both cool an allows for innovation.
With a permanent connection things like satalite radio and standalone internet connected GPS’s (the dash) aren’t as relevant anymore. You can get all the functionality through other means, or the existing technologies will have to elvolve to embrace such things. There are really endless possibilities that could come of this, and I was really surprised to only see this story get dugg my myself, and the submitter. I wish Chrysler the best of luck rolling out their system, and can’t wait to see what this evolves into.
Original Description:
Chrysler wants to turn your car into a rolling WiFi hotspot where you check your Facebook profile, upload pictures to Flickr, and eventually be part of a nationwide traffic-control network.
I know this isn’t the first game ported to flash, nor is it complete, but Mario Kart (especially the Super Nintendo version) has a special place in my heart. I actually got notified of this site today via plurk, else I probably would have never seen it. The original post got 165 diggs, was never buried out of the queue, but it never hit the front page.
If you do like it, make sure you check out the authors other javascript demo’s as well.
Original Description:
This is a prototype of a Javascript Mario Kart-like racing game.
It uses the canvas element to do most of the rendering and should work in both FF2, FF3, Opera 9.27 and Safari 3.1.1.
I try not to dupe a story unless it never hit the front page and has been out of the normal queue for a long time but is still news/front page worthy. That is how I felt about ManBabies.com. Basically the site takes images of fathers and kids & has the faces switched so you are left with an adult with a child’s head, and a child with an adult head. Good for a chuckle, especially on Father’s Day.
This site has been submitted at least 7 times and never hit, although I don’t believe it got buried at all until today. Previous times it just didn’t get enough diggs to hit the front page, the most before today being 74 diggs. Today though, for better or worse, the images & name “manbaby” reminded me of digg submitter MrBabyMan, so I attached his name to the title of my submission. MrBabyMan seems to have a following of people who both like and dislike him, and it seems that his name being attached to the story caused it to be buried at less then 50 diggs.
Anyway, Happy Father’s Day to all the Diggers & Pop Fail Readers who are father’s out there!
Original Description (two of the 7+ submissions):
Words cannot fully describe this. Just check it out.
File This Under: Funny Weird Creepy Photoshop Humor
Nothing symbolizes father’s day better then cutting the heads off a picture of a father and their child and switching them to create a Man Baby… right?
When Qik first became popular I was pretty excited about it, up until I found out it only worked with Nokia phones. When I saw this story saying it would be available for all windows mobile phones I figured a lot of people would care, but only five people dugg this story at the time of this posting, and only 54 people dugg this story combined with the four other dupes submited.
Maybe its because its only announced and not yet aviable, but who knows.
Original Description:
Tomorrow Qik, the popular webcasting service that streams video from your phone, will announce support for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform.
Ever since I saw Lawnmower Man 2 & read Snow Crash I’ve been waiting for a technology that brought actual people together from around the world. With Second Life we sort of get this but in a limited sense, but not really what I’ve been wanting. Now that Cisco is working on this, I can’t wait to see it applied to things like Second Life.
“The ‘Cisco On-Stage TelePresence Experience’ was an ambitious collaboration between Cisco and Musion Systems, which took place during the opening of Cisco’s Globalization Centre East in Bangalore,The photorealistic and lifesize virtual duo from San Jose then interacted with the Cisco CEO and presented to the audience in India
A great personal reflection on technology now and then for someone who was growing up right when the Internet and online communities were just starting to take off. Easy story to passover in the upcoming queue since it doesn’t have breaking news, but a good read none the less, at least for me as I also had similar experiences growing up, just not with AOL.
Original Description:
Many tech geeks will often say that their first forays into cyberspace began with a 300 baud modem and a BBS. I’m a little younger than that (finally, I can say that!), but I was an early adopter of social networks from when I first opened my 3.5″ floppy of Promenade (later to be called AOL) and signed up to use the service.
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