Oh no, not the blue screen of death! The Matrix Runs on Windows Bill Gates, Microsoft and and The Matrix. Very well produced and perfect for the nerdie film watcher - this latest video from CollegeHumor.com, the Matrix meets...the blue screen.
Cythbot: Guitar Hero Robot Demonstrating Cyth Systems solutions, Cythbot is a true Guitar Hero. The autonomous system can play the wildly popular video game solo or in versus mode using a Compact Vision System (CVS) and a Configurable Signal Conditioning Enclosure (CA-1000) from National Instruments.
Origami Optics
Most camera lenses refract light, leading to the familiar cylindrical tube geometry. In some cases, where extended focal length or reduced track length are required, concentric mirrors can be used to effectively reduce barrel length. Recent advances in diamond machining and image processing make it possible to take this approach to a new extreme. With up to 8 reflections, large ray angles, and a lens shaped more like a lens cap than a tube, so-called Origami Optics allowed researchers at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering to squeeze long focal lengths into a thin package and still collect enough light for fast, sharp exposures. Applications may range from compact imagers for micro-UAV surveillance craft to a miniature telephoto lens for future cell phones. "Our imager is about seven times more powerful than a conventional lens of the same depth," says Eric Tremblay, a UCSD electrical and computer engineering graduate student and the first author of a recent Applied Optics paper describing the new technology. Tremblay works with professor Joseph Ford in the Photonic Systems Integration Lab at the Jacobs School. The research is funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of the "MONTAGE" imager program.
Ultra-Thin ImagersIn Part 2 of Engineering TV's interview with Eric Tremblay, researcher at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, Eric discusses the Montage, a new camera design derived from a "slice" of the original full aperture symmetric lens, which features a much greater depth of field and a USB interface, all in a package about the size of a domino. "This type of miniature camera is very promising for applications where you want high resolution images and a short exposure time. This describes what cell phone cameras want to be when they grow up," says professor Joseph Ford in the Photonic Systems Integration Lab at the Jacobs School. "Today's cell phone cameras are pretty good for wide angle shots, but because space constraints require short focal length lenses, when you zoom them in, they're terrible. They're blurry, dark, and low contrast."
University of Texas Solar Vehicle Team The University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team is a student 
organization sponsored by the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Under the guidance of Professor Gary Hallock, students raise funds, design, build, test, and race vehicles powered only by the sun. At over 50 members strong, the team is currently hard at work building its new car for the North American Solar Challenge 2008, the Samsung Solorean.
Samsung Solorean Solar Car
In Part 2 of an interview with Chak Man Yeung from NI Week, "Sunny" digs deeper into the University of Texas' solar "raycer". Featuring the National Instruments CompactRIO real-time programmable automation controller, the Samsung Solorean features one of the most sophisticated electrical systems in solar car "raycing". While the CompactRIO is primarily for battery protection, it also does state of charge calculations, cell balancing, array control, cruise control, HMI (via a touch screen), and telemetry. Solar car "rayces" are nationally organized events, with competition among dozens of colleges and universities. The challenge is to design, build, and race the best solar-powered vehicle. The mission is to promote educational excellence and team work among all competitors. To accomplish this goal, teams must integrate technical and business expertise across a range of disciplines.
Cornell's Automotive X-Prize Team The Automotive X-Prize (AXP) will be awarded to the team that produces a 100 mile-per-gallon (equivalent) vehicle, develops a feasible business plan to produce 10,000 units, and wins a series of stage races against similar vehicles. The Cornell Automotive X-Prize (AXP) Team is the first officially registered university team competing in the Automotive X Prize Competition. The group is made up of over 70 undergraduate and graduate students from six of Cornell University's seven colleges including engineering, architecture, design and environmental analysis, and business. The multi-disciplinary group is organized into several teams, including Chassis, Electrical Components, Mechanical Components, Design, Information Management, Business Administration, and Business Plan. These groups are currently using a systems engineering approach to design an automobile that will push the limits of efficiency, feature a distinctive and unique aesthetic, and be commercially viable in the market.
If you are in the web hosting or Internet video streaming industry, you will love this video, Web Hosting Gone Wild PART 1 . And if you are not techie at all, you will still like it - but maybe not as much. Extremely well produced and shot, this short video tells the story of what happens when technology becomes a bit too personal and all consuming. Daddy's Little Girl.
If you are into next generation technology, open source and cusp between human life and the net, you ought to watch this. Open Systems and the Speed of Innovation - You are Listening to the Heart of the Sage Machine - from ScribeMedia.Org is a mash-up of the “The Information Machine,” by Charles and Ray Eames. The original was produced for the IBM Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, and attempted to demonstrate how modern computing and human creativity were developing hand in hand.
How nerdy are you? Are you an engineer? Are you interested in seeing promotional and educational videos created by a variety of high tech vendors and developers? Check out Electronic Design's TechnologyTV
Apple ad campaign has prompted Mac, PC fans to defend their favorites in online video parodies - Compiled by ComputerWorld magazine
Do you like Tech? And computers and Toys? Check out the Mechatropolis Videos section.
Videos: DivX LEGO Sumo Robotic Championship. If you like watching robot sumo contests (and really, who doesn't?) then this is a four-star video. With an excellent and very funny narration, you'll enjoy this battle of the bots displaying many different techniques.
Videos: Gymnastic Robot Built with LEGO Mindstorm's NXT. Ok, so we've learned robots can smash through windows and do recon and sumo wrestle as well. But what about gymnastics? Sure there aren't any "floor exercises" with music, but this is almost as good!
Videos: Rugged and Portable Reconnaissance Robot. How many times have you thought of building a reconnaissance robot, then stopped to ask yourself "But can it be thrown through a glass window and still work fine?" Well, this video from the National Robotics Engineering Center answers that question.
Hosted at DivX's Stage6, this online channel Shutdown is a new web series about geeks, by geeks and for geeks.
About Shutdown
Lodged in the world of I.T. and living by the code of the geek, Simon fumbles his way through life all while trying to keep his job. He is accompanied by his friends Zedd, Hally and Chaz.
A monthly Internet TV show, ./shutdown explores all that is geek and nerd. From the spires of BlackRock to the cry of the Shoryuken, nothing is sacred. www.shutdowntv.com
You don't need to buy any conversion programs - all you need is your Mac, iMovie, a USB cable and this video -USE iMOVIE TO CONVERT VIDEOS FOR YOUR PSP! iMovie is standard on all Mac computers! No software to buy, AT ALL! Very useful video if you want to put movies onto your PSP (PlayStation Portable) and have iMovie on your Mac computer.
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Links to New and Cool Stuff
Secret History of the Bra- National Geographic's upcoming special is the most awesome news from them since we saw naked African women in their magazines back in the fourth grade.
Did you know the the entire Internet Crashed? You could send email. couldn't access porn, couldn't buy any viagra or invest in penny stocks, visit virtual worlds or answer earnest letters of help from Nigerians who just wanted to share their money? Wa sit your fault? You just shouldn't have had that many windows open on your computer. Check out this recent news blast.
Are you into video games and computer worlds? People create songs and music videos to celebrate all kinds of topics - love, fate, destiny, global warming. But sometimes you got to delve a little deeper into what is really important. Video Games. Check out this cool little animated music ditty about the Sony Playstation PS3. Its the PS3 Song. "It Sucked and I'll Tell You Why"
This little 3 minute fake public service announcement is great. Center for Downward Mobility. How will the US compete in the world? Here is the solution for the outsourcing dilemma that faces the American worker. Learn to outsource....
CNET TV: Veronica Belmont blooper reel
Veronica Belmont is leaving CNET, and that's very sad. But there is also something to be happy about: in addition to all her great videos, she's leaving an awesome blooper reel in her wake. That's right, Veronica does mess up sometimes. And it's usually hilarious, as this CNET TV video will show you. So rock on, Veronica, and best of luck! Veronica Belmont: The unseen moments
iThunes: AIM - If you are nerdy or have ever done IM flirting, ya got to see this
Nick's got the IM blues.
This is a great little 5 minute video from Comedy Central and Director: Ruben Fleischer
Nick Thune tells the poignant story of a special chat.
This is great. Excellently produced and very clean. Have you ever been barraged, seduced and otherwise persuaded to switch cell phone and telecom service providers? You'll love this! Switch
Digital laser imaging technology is not only very cool, but it is also much faster and more accurate than hand drawing for architectural features found at archaeological sites. This fact is made obvious in Mesa Verde: A CyArk Case Study, the latest video feature at The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/).
The complex World Heritage site of Mesa Verde is a good challenge for CyArk, a Kacyra Family Foundation project that is preserving the world's most valued cultural heritage sites in three-dimensional digital form. Ancestral Puebloans at Mesa Verde built cliff dwellings in AD 1200-1300. A field team in 2005 visited one site there, Spruce Tree House, to test CyArk's advanced documentation techniques. This video shows how CyArk is preserving the site in digital imagery through laser scanning and the most accurate 3D models possible today.
Are you interested in the latest developments in the mobile phone and TV industry? Check out what former presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush had to say
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The Best Funny Tech Videos - David Ramel of ComputerWorld Magazine has gathered together 10 of what he considers the funniest tech videos on YouTube. Some are pretty good. But it helps to be a bit nerdy and in the industry to really get the joke...
This includes funny videos about Tech help desks and call centers, the new Apple iPHone, mischief at Trade shows, cubicle rage and adult computer interactions and pranks.
Top tweaks for Firefox - From Tom Merritt at CNET
Surfing the Web has always been too slow. From the first GIFs in my Mosaic browser to YouTube on Firefox, moving from page to page always seems a burden. Luckily, browsers are tweakable. If you use the Firefox browser (and if you don't, how come?) here are some tweaks and tricks to get it moving a little better for you. In fact, I like them so much, I'll just show them to you in a video. How's that?
Interested in telecom, technology and television? Check out one of the best sites on the web for news and views that concern this convergence of technologies. TelecomTV - desktop TV for the global ICT professional. Here is a direct link to their streaming video page.
Neo-Fight is a great site with a unique concept - They target those who are not quite nerdy enough or are new to the virtues of technology. Hence their site name - Neo-Fight - (neophyte). A bit erudite if we say so. Anyhow, they offer streaming shows that explain the latest got to have products for those living in our modern world. Check them out
Do you dig archeologists or do you find them a little too boring? Check out this Radical Archaeology Television Parody. Here you will see Brad Garrett and Adam Fish do a number on Josh Bernstein of the History Channel's very popular series, "Digging for the Truth." Brad and Adam, both archaeologists, are absolutely amazed that Josh, in just one hour and through his amazing stunts and in a very stylish fashion, gets to the truth that archaeologists in 100 years of research have struggled to achieve. You have to see this to believe it. More cool videos can be found at the Archeology Channel
If you are into Second Life - you will probably really dig this - if not, it is still pretty cool. Trash Talk: Second Life S&M Vacation - Ill Will found his dream girl on his virtual vacation, but he’s about to learn that what happens in Second Life, should stay in Second Life.
Do you know what web 2.0 is? Are you ready to interact with technology and the web and become part of the new Net community. Check out TechCrunch's Michael Arrington as he explains Web 2.0
We love this video. Have you ever spilled soda or Red Bull on your keyboard and wondered what do you do next? You don't want to blow up your computer? Check out this Geek Squad video on how to clean your keyboard - in the dishwasher!
A shark with the ugly proportions of the pre-historic era has surfaced near Japan offering a rare view of this denizen of the deep. The "Frilled Shark" is hardly ever seen because its habitat is 600 meters or more below the ocean surface.
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How nerdy are you? Here's a great Photoshop Tips Music Video! All about Photoshop Droplets. Digital imaging master and unlikely crooner 
