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I’m very proud to say that my first-ever iPhone/iPod Touch application “Harp” is now available! Harp is a fun, easy-to-play software musical instrument. Check out the video demo below, and learn more at the web site HarpApp.com. Please link to it too!

The thing that all these robots have in common is that they have a certain amount of autonomy— they are given goals and strategies for achieving those goals, but the particular movements they will make at a given time are not known in advance.
Dexter, from Anybots
BigDog, from Boston Dynamics
Asimo from Honda, programmed at Carnegie Mellon
Robot [...]

In an age where a major portion of the economy is based in “digital goods,” that are transmitted through a system— the Internet— where they are of both necessity and choice endlessly and perfectly copied, and from which they can never be fully erased, why would anyone pay for these goods? After all, they’re basically [...]

With shouts to Barney.

I now have a Twitter account, so if you want to tune into my ongoing answer to the question “What are you doing now?” then feel free to follow my tweets. The sidebar of my blog now also includes my latest tweets. I plan to keep them to two to three per day, and I’ll [...]

I’m not as badly off as some. I only throw away about 8-10 catalogs a week that arrive at my office. Over a year, that’s around 500 catalogs. Now scale that to the entire U.S.: Americans are printing, distributing, and throwing away (mostly unused) about 19 billion catalogs each year.
53 million trees per year.
3.6 million [...]

I’ve seen tesla coils live at Burning Man numerous times— they’re incredibly loud.
Quoth Doc Brown: “If we could somehow harness this lightning, channel it into the flux capacitor, it just might work…”
Introducing the Zeusaphone.
A Zeusaphone Mario Bros. duet…
Dr. Zeus playing with the Zeusaphones. Or are they playing with him? Or does the water get him [...]

Whew! Today I’m finally ready to talk about the secret software project I have spent more than three years on: Flying Logic.

I’ve had a really great client for the past several years: a small independent think tank near where I live in Los Angeles that has major clients in industries ranging from entertainment to automotive [...]

Coming soon to a Photoshop plug-in near you!

Artificial Intelligence has been defined as the study of anything humans do that computers can’t. Once we’ve figured out how to get computers (or robots) to do such a task, it ceases to be AI. Such tasks once included optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, and playing championship Chess. In each case, there were detractors who [...]