I enjoy browsing through the “in pictures” feature of BBC.com daily and the last feature that related to Japan that I blogged about was Robot Menagerie which speaks about Japan’s vibrant robotic industry and one of the pioneers of robotics in Japan is Professor Shigeo Hirose at the...

This project agrees with my notion that everyone has a little geek in them. Some shutter at the thought, but I believe it’s true. In my mind “Geekiness” has evolved from the old definition of “a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp. one who is perceived to be overly intellectual”....

1. Microspoft Zune Microsoft’s Zune, before its name was made public, was known among gadget geeks as simply the “iPod killer.” And you’ve got to admit, Redmond didn’t do that bad a job of actually naming the device once it got around to it–”Zune” is kind...