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The robot will be produced by Thinkway Toys, under licese of Disney and Pixar.

More than 10 motors, remote control, programmable capabilities, sensors for obstacles, sound and touch, and that cute and tender and friendly look… how could you live without one of these?

If robots will dominate the world anyway, let’s embrace the future!

Via Engadget.

UPDATE:
Techie Diva has posted a video of a demonstration of the robot at the Maker Faire, so take a look and enjoy!

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Read the full essay about the ampersand (&) symbol, by Jonathan Hoefler.

Via Daring Fireball.

Now this is the smallest device running full Mac OS X.

Some time ago I was seriously considering to buy an OQO, but the small Windows device didn’t fit well into my Unix-centric (and now Mac OS X centric) workflow.

The bad news are this is still a hackintosh (Remember Osx86 Project?), so any software update could turn it useless.

Via Engadget.

Having some fun at the park.

What a great concert performed by Goran Bregović and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra on last saturday in the México City Theatre.

Just a few people stayed in their seats, most of the public was singing and dancing in the corridors of the hall. Goran is a great musician, and a great entertainer; he and the vocalist and drummer Alen were smiling the entire concert, and all the band was playing continuously.

They opened with a scherzo, in which the public hears some notes from one brass instrument in the back, and then a second one joins. When you can see the musicians, they are playing while walking to the scenery.

This was the program for the night:

• TDV (The scherzo)
• Uvertira (Karmen)
• Gas-gas (Karmen)
• Ausencia (Underground)
• Maki maki (Tales and songs from weddings and funerals)
• Borino oro (Time of the gypsies)
• Mashala (Karmen)
• Svadba (Karmen; I though this song’s name was Bijav)
• So nevo si (Tales and songs from weddings and funerals)
• Wedding cocek (Underground)
• Sex (Tales and songs from weddings and funerals; the program states this song, but I didn’t hear it)
• Ne siam kurve tuke sijam prostitutke (Karmen)
• Aven Ivenda (Tales and songs from weddings and funerals)
• Koferi (Karmen)
• Ringe ringe raja (Underground; in the program this song was named “Twist”)
• Prawo do Lewego (Originally he sings this song in duet with the polish singer Kaya)
• In the deathcar (Arizona dream; this is a very nice adaptation in which Goran sings, Alen follows with a rythmic low percussion and Bokan Stankovic -I think- plays trumpet, replacing the mandolins from Iggy-Pop’s version)
• Ederlezi (Time of the gypsies)
• Mesecina (Underground)

Then all the band left the scene, but came back after the public didn’t stop asking for more. They closed with Kalasnjikov; here’s a video taken by someone who went to the first concert, the one performed on friday 18 (saturday concert was very similar):

It was impossible for me to take pictures or video (there was a guy asking everybody to shut off their cameras and cellphones), but I used my camera to record some songs.

Enjoy them!

• Mesecina
• Cajesukarije cocek

UPDATE: I’ve just added a post about this trip to Mexico City on my family blog.