So that's what I look like to the Internet? (Click to enlarge.)
You ever wonder how the Internet sees you? Googling yourself is one way to find out, but what if you've always yearned to see yourself as a cross between a bar graph and abstract art? Well, now thanks to the MIT's Sociable Media Lab and Aaron Zinman, you can find out. Zinman's created an installation called Personas that maps data culled from the 'net into specific categories, then turns the whole thing into a visual represen
Colorado State grad student Greg Schroll has taken the idea of the spherical robot -- basically a robot contained in a ball, as seen above -- and made it a reality. Well, not quite a reality, but close enough for Schroll to be named one of Popular Mechanics' 10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009.
"What I have is a concept prototype." Schroll says. "My hope is that what I created can someday be deployed in a real situation, but there is still a lot of work to do."
