Saturday, May 31, 2008

Bhutan: lost in democracy



Great documentary from CurrentTv! I'd love to travel there to see this "last shangri-la" for myself..

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Photosynth at Microsoft


I actually got to play with Photosynth a while back...i think this technology has huge potential..."creating hyperlink among related pictures" automatically is definitely a leap in technology...i can't see why this can't be applied to "creating hyperlink among related videos" further down the road...imagine a football match where there're hundreds of video footages by professional cameramen or even from spectators taking video from the stand...there'd be one additional dimension (time) to worry about (beyond what they've applied to space right now)...but somehow that seems to me a easier challenge than the one they're solving right...it's a technology worth staying in touch with the progress...

Hang Drum


man i didn't even know such an instrument exist! freakin cool!

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Flying Bike with Google Earth


man! all he needs is a bigger LCD display or a projector...still damn cool thou~

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Cool Google Earth features~


Often times, when I come across another cool new stuff coming from the Google campus (like the one shown above), I'd feel like going to buy Google shares immediately...until i remember that a gd company does not equate gd stock..but still, Google has been consistently innovating...a company i truly admire~

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Interesting Architecture Animations

Ever since I started this job in real estate, I've become exposed to an area of design that has largely been left out of my realm of "known existence" in the past...it helps that my bro, Sam, is studying architecture and started showing me stuff that is truly pleasing to the eye...anyway, here're a few architecture videos I came across...


Museum Plaza by OMA


Dynamic "rotating" building proposed for Dubai

Unfortunately i couldn't find a video of the Kingdom Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia...I was fortunate to stay in the Four Seasons there once..truly amazing building..here're some pictures:





Saturday, May 17, 2008

Microsoft's TouchWall


It's only a matter of time...i predict these sort of multi-wall surface will be all over in malls and in homes in the next few yrs..and its price would only be as expensive as the LCD projector...the infrared sensor/camera should be dirt cheap..i'm excited about the stuff that ppl can use this with...

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Amazing clouds


Clouds never cease to amaze me...

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Cool football video from Nike


From 1st person perspective...cool!

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Original Song by 11 yr-old

My super-duper coolest dudest of the dudes bro-in-law, NickyRick (you can also find his blog here), wrote his first song called "I saw love in front of me" a while ago...came out with the lyrics and music...all i did was to figure out the chords for him...coolness to the max man!!! yeeeeha!