Tiny transforming beer can robot

June 8, 2011 By 22 Comments
beer_can_robot

The next time you reach for a cold one, you might want to take a look at the can to ensure that your beer won’t suddenly sprout legs and start skittering across the table. You might remember [Ron Tajima] from some of his previous creations, including this Roomba-based baby cradle and the PacMan Roomba mod. This time around, he has created a cool little transforming robot that fits inside a … [Read more...]

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YouTube testing even higher quality videos

November 21, 2008 By 27 Comments

YouTube, purveyor of some of worst looking flash video is finally getting their act together. We posted the other day about embedding videos using &fmt=18 to get higher quality YouTube videos. It seems the awesome knob has now been turned up to &fmt=22. All of the previous tricks should work, just use 22 instead of 18. This all depends on the highdef version being available. Now they just … [Read more...]

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Working with high quality YouTube videos

November 13, 2008 By 22 Comments

[Kottke] posted advice for watching and sharing high quality YouTube videos. While it's not HD quality, it's much, much better than the normal, fuzzy quality you get on most videos. This hack has been available for some time, but it hasn't been documented very well until now. When you're logged in, you can just set the default to "Always play higher-quality video when it's available". When you're … [Read more...]

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