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I would love to know if Ives was truly foundation to the iPhone, or if he was more given the overall idea and polished it with the final look/feel (which is also important).

Who was the exact individual that had the vision for glass multi-touch screens and sick gesture like effects (scroll).

Perhaps the team just sat around a table and came up with the vision. Or maybe it was Jobs, but clearly there were some good visionaries in the company.

I think the proof of Ive's excellence will come out of this next OpenAI project. If it's something lame, then I will assume his impact at Apple was overrated. If it's a jaw-dropper, then maybe he really is the cat's meow.

Is this the same control system that is used on the first style Segway by Dean Kamen, or is it different since there is a mass at the top of the pendulum?

Can you recommend the author?

How many audit the police videos have you seen on Youtube? There are an insufferable amount of "white" people getting destroyed by the cops. If you replace the "white" people in these videos with "black" then 99% of viewers would assume the cops are hardcore racist, when in fact, they are just bad cops - very bad cops, that have some deep psychological issues - probably rooted from a traumatic childhood.

You have no evidence to suggest this, just bias. Unless you are aware of the AI algorithm, then it's a pointless discussion that only causes strife and conjecturing.

I'm sure CLEAR is already having giddy discussion on how they can charge you to get pre-verified access to walk around in public. We can all wear CLEAR certified dog tags so the cops can hastle the non-dog-tagged people.

I wasn't implying TSA-cargo-pant-groping is comparable. My point is to show escalation in public facing systems. We have been dealing with TSA. Now we get AI Scanners. What's next?

Also, no need to escalate this into a race issue.

Walking through TSA scanners, I always get that unnerving feeling I will get pulled aside. 50% of the time they flag my cargo pants because of the zipper pockets - There is nothing in them but the scanner doesn't like them.

Now we get the privilege of walking by AI security cameras placed in random locations, hoping they don't flag us.

There's a ton of money to be made with this kind of global frisking, so lots of pressure to roll out more and more systems.

How does this not spiral out of control?

Wow, cool bike! Said nobody.

It's sad to see so much effort being put into a product that is utterly uncool. Maybe start with the design (cool) and then integrate the mechanics. This is how companies design cool cars.

You are making things up out of thin air. These are recalls from JAN 2024- MAR 2025

  Ford Motor Company, 94 (7%)
  Chrysler (FCA US, LLC), 78 (6%)
  Forest River, Inc., 67 (5%)
  General Motors, LLC, 41 (3%)
  BMW of North America, LLC, 39 (3%)
  Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC, 33 (3%)
  Hyundai Motor America, 28 (2%)
  Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC, 26 (2%)
  Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., 25 (2%)
  Daimler Trucks North America, LLC, 24 (2%)
  Honda (American Honda Motor Co.), 24 (2%)
  Kia America, Inc., 24 (2%)
  Jayco, Inc., 22 (2%)
  International Motors, LLC, 21 (2%)
  Nova Bus (US) Inc., 21 (2%)
  Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, 21 (2%)
  Nissan North America, Inc., 20 (2%)
  Tesla, Inc., 20 (2%)
  Mack Trucks, Inc., 17 (1%)
  Winnebago Industries, Inc., 16 (1%)

Great to see someone trying to innovate. It's surprising humans haven't come up with a better input method than an old school keyboard. Who would have thought that a typewriter from 1874 would still be so visible on a modern Macbook!

Surely, there has to be a better way.

I suppose an external battery pack adds the bonus of doing a hard shutdown, in the case it decides to go rogue. Though getting to the battery pack might be hard if it resists you.

It depends on the battery life. If the robot lasts all day, then charging at night via standing on a charging pad makes a lot of sense. Creating a removable battery pack adds extra weight and gives the designers less freedom to place the battery pack exactly where it needs to be in the robot frame, or distribute the cells across the frame in strategic locations.

Also, the charge rate matters. If robot can charge to 80% in say 30 minutes, then it can take small charging breaks during the day between critical tasks.

Also, if the feet have inductive chargers, it's possible to place the robot on a large charging mat that allows it to run indefinitely, like in a factory environment. If your robot takes 30 minutes to fold the laundry or do dishes, why not place a charging mat at these locations so it can work and charge at the same time.

In the future, new homes might include charging coils embedded in the floor every 12 inches so that your robots can work all day.

Sounds awesome. Can you share more information on your art piece?

Bjork talking about her torn-apart CRT TV is one of my favorite videos.

https://youtu.be/75WFTHpOw8Y?si=FnWcYEtpdhsziJ11

Reminds me of Ant for the HP48 calculator, though I have a feeling that was way before your time ;-)

https://www.hpcalc.org/details/6681

Yes. People can now go for walks, mountain bike, and enjoy the outdoors next to their neighborhood.

This begs the question of what is the most quiet fan(s) on the market? If all of us sat down in a room together and had this mission, what would it look like? An electrostatic fan (using electrohydrodynamics) would be pretty silent, but provide very little airflow. It's a fun problem to solve and would love to see a company create better products than those overpriced Dyson fans (which are junk IMHO).

How did you have the wherewithal to remember you had this tool? Where did you keep the tool? Did the tool come with the car or did you buy it just in case?

The juxtaposition in the marketing speak is ridiculous.

"...all with a whole lot less effort."

Seriously Apple, a whole lot less?

I am forever grateful to Starbucks in San Francisco for offering a public accessible restroom during an extreme bathroom emergency. For whatever reason, my body did not react well to "Vitamin Water" while riding on the BART. I think perhaps the crystalline fructose was the problem (Have never drank it since).

Bottom line, I barely made it out of the BART station and had maybe 30 seconds left until purse disaster. I hobbled across the street to a Starbucks and prayed with all my might that the door would not be locked or require some kind of access code. Thankfully it opened and I was relieved from what would have been a most embarrassing day.

I wonder what the Apollo missions would have done with this much storage?

Nice to see someone using a rightly-sized microcontroller for their project. Most hackers today throw an ESP32, or worse yet, a Raspberry Pi to handle the simplest of tasks. I suppose this is because the platforms are so readily available, but still there is something cool about using a teeny-tiny microcontroller.

This would be great for measuring heart rate while asleep because I can stand wearing a watch in bed, and my watch is charging at night as well.

I always just enable tap to click and also adjust the speed to max. Once your brain gets use to this it works great (for me).

Also, some problems don't have enough data for a solution. I had a professor that gave tests where the answer was sometimes "not solvable." Taking these tests was like sweating bullets because you were not sure if you're just too dumb to solve the problem, or there was not enough data to solve the problem. Good times!

My favorite todo app is "NotePlan.co" which actually uses .txt files for its data storage. The file is synced on icloud and can be used on iOS and mac OS apps.

Seems there is a huge opportunity for startups to understand and fix our guts. A Theranos of gut testing, where you can find out if you have biomarkers that need adjusted from your stool sample.

Contractors that produce standing metal seam roof panels on site are right inline with this concept. They bring a magic machine with a long roll of steel. Then they form and cut the panels to lengths based on the job site. It’s a super cool process to watch and very efficient.

Capital expenditures are the dominant cost for semi fabs. Labor is actually relatively small. For example, "just" a tester machine, which tests parts before final, cost $5-10M each, and there are usually rows of these machines as far as the eye can see.