Alan Kay on scalable group collaboration (Open Croquet). Alan Kay showed us a pre-alpha demo of some software (called Open Croquet, I think) written in Smalltalk and Squeak. The collective collaboration of Hydra + Star Trek's Holodeck + The Matrix. It looks like what he's done is create an OS based not on applications but on objects, which makes a bit of emergence possible (which, if you're drinking the Kool-Aid here at Etech, is a good thing). Quite im… [kottke.org]

this sounds interesting….

A 15-inch LCD monitor with a little something extra on top.

We're quite big on the dual-monitor setup here at Gizmodo HQ, we'd even add a third monitor if we could, but we might have to settle for the TopHead TM150, a 15-inch flat-screen LCD monitor that comes with a second, 6.4-inch LCD monitor built-into the top. The idea is that you use that second little monitor for video conferencing or for watching TV.
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nifty toy, i want 3

The Banryu guard-robot.

GK, Gizmodo's new Tokyo correspondent, managed to snap a few pics at Tokyu Hands of Sanyo's new Banryu guard-robot, which is designed to prowl around the house keeping an eye out for intruders. He says, “one of the cool things with the Banryu is that you can call it from your cellphone and remotely view things it sees with its camera and control how it moves around your apartment.”

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it needs a missle launcher, without a missle launcher it is useless