Think of the Yandex office as Russia’s answer to Mountain View’s Google headquarters. According to EnglishRussia, “there is everything here: skateboards, stilts, lamps, padded stools, tons of fruit, thousands of toys, even special rooms for smoking on each floor.” Click here for more pictures. [via EnglishRussia] Original post by TecheBlog Staff
SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — DynamicOps is extending its expertise in virtualization and private cloud management by introducing the DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center (DCAC). It is the industry’s first full-featured, flexible platform for defining and rapidly automating the delivery and management of on-demand IT services on a shared multi-tenant private or public cloud infrastructure. DCAC extends [...]
Created by Etsy user pixlpshr, these geeky fan-made pixel art designs aren’t just for looks, they’re actually felt collages. Yes, “each piece is created with hand-cut squares of felt which are painstakingly assembled and adhered to the surface of a canvas, then finished with felt along the sides.” Click here for the first picture in [...]
While not as cute as Robokid, this creative Robocop-inspired robots were made entirely from rubber pieces. Tools used include a laser cutter and lots of glue. Click here for more pictures. [via Planetoddity] Original post by TecheBlog Staff
SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Nimsoft announced that L7 Solutions (L7), an Australia-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider, has deployed Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to provide valued-added monitoring of critical systems, including Vblock Infrastructure Packages. NMS enables L7 to provide clients with comprehensive performance monitoring and capacity planning as well as customized reporting for constituencies ranging from front-line [...]
Seeing rayguns in movies in one thing, building your own — like the Fallout 3 A3-21 Plasma Rifle above — with scrap metal is an entirely different story. For those who aren’t familiar with this term, they “are a type of fictional directed-energy weapon.” Click here to see them all. [via 1800Recycling] Original post by [...]
A drone, sometimes known as a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), can be used for everything from covert surveillance missions to putting on a show at airshows. Continue reading to see five of the coolest videos. Original post by TecheBlog Staff
SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — More and more Americans are choosing to outfit their homes with hard floor surfaces. According to research from floor care innovator BISSELL Homecare, Inc., one in five consumers have replaced a carpeted surface in their home with bare floors since 2005, and virtually all American homes currently have some type of [...]
theodp writes “To move forward with programming languages, argues Poul-Henning Kamp, we need to break free from the tyranny of ASCII. While Kamp admires programming language designers like the Father-of-Go Rob Pike, he simply can’t forgive Pike for ‘trying to cram an expressive syntax into the straitjacket of the 95 glyphs of ASCII when Unicode [...]
