4) Cool Stuff

Here is a video of a robot doing laundry. More useful than a Mac for college kids, I think.

Here is a short video from Matt Cuts interview with WebPro News on the implications of real-time search to web site promotion.

The video below showcases a rather interesting piece of technology from Google.  It has been developed by the Google Books division that has managed to digitize more than one million classic books available from Google Books online for free.

There is some controversy surrounding the project, because Google choose to digitize not only books that are out of copyright, but also those that are out of print, without discrimination between the two. Google plans to sell books through online retailers as well as direct to consumers.

As an author, I’m sure you would have some objection to your out of print work being digitized by Google.  Apparently royalty issues will all be worked out in court between Google and the groups representing writers. A ruling is expected sometime this year.

Anyway, here is a rather marvelous printing and binding machine that can print a small Google book in about 3-4 minutes.  Rather cool, don’t you think ?

Interesting story from Bits – NY times

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