hilobird commented on Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing, Will Sell a Thousand Slo-Mo Cameras

"It's real. Promise. Watch the Discovery channel sometime people. what's *amazing* is that we're able to see time-shifts the way we are."

hilobird commented on Will Mankind Ever Wear Video Glasses?

""The technology is good enough and cheap enough for the entire tech-buying world to be watching movies on simulated 40-inch screens" What the hell?"

hilobird commented on Flame Bot Has Manliest Walk in Robot Kingdom

"I dunno, the concept of dynamic-stability-falling-forward is not a new one; this may be the most 'manlike' walk, but I think this one beats it hands down: Dynamic system without stability for the win!"

hilobird commented on Lenovo Parodies MacBook Air Ad For X300

"Y'all constantly miss the point of the MacBook Air: It's for taking to your women's studies classes. - bird"

hilobird commented on Compact Florescent Light Bulbs, Gone Crazy

"nVision Soft White bulbs can be blind-tested against regular incandescents. I've had many of the older ones, and they were compromises."

hilobird commented on Insane RC Plane Pilot Screws Gravity Laws and Our Minds

"Also, this guy is good but Quique Somenzini is the man. [www.somenzini.com]"

hilobird commented on Insane RC Plane Pilot Screws Gravity Laws and Our Minds

"It's impressive piloting to hover like that, but not extraordinary."

hilobird commented on Why Does Japan Get All The Super-Fast Fiber Optic Love?

"It's not just size. When we say "Japan has this speed" what we really mean is that *urban* Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, etc) have it. Now, they're mostly a very urban society, as there isn't a lot of land for that many people to live on, but it's also a volcanic island (like Hawai'i where I live) so it's a total pain in the ass to wire up the countryside. In the mainland US, our urban density is nothing like that, so even for a city of the same number of people you're covering a lot more land."

hilobird commented on World's Biggest Camera, Not So Portable

" @Jibbly: No, 10 days is no kind of record..."

hilobird commented on Is it a Boat? Is it a Plane? No, it's the Hydroptre

" @spaceboy: Yes, there are several foil-based single-handed ships; the Hobie Trifoiler would be the fastest & easiest to get going on, but there are also the Foiler Moth (think 'sitting in a bathtub 3' above the water') and the Windrider Rave is very similar to the TriFoiler with poorer engineering. - j"