Hugvie

‘I like the current top comment, which says “Forever Alone level: MASTER”. I don’t necessarily poo-poo the idea of a soft robot at all, though. The designer has a point there.’

‘I like stuff like this, pretty much for all the wrong reasons. There was a time when I marvelled at the technological ideas; now I struggle to keep myself from laughing, because this future vision has no grounding in any approachable reality. There’s no “Sorry! This action is forbidden on your network.” Gone are the error messages to say “you do not have this plugin installed”, and while it is a Microsoft Office production, it seems a stretch to imagine the world would function with one operating system, let alone one typeface. But hey - their commercial vision isn’t likely to include support for open-source file formats, is it?’ ;)

‘It’s not often that I’ll sit and watch a string of YouTube videos, comprising a 40-odd-minute programme in 5 parts, but as soon as I clicked through to @DVDSmith’s link, I was hooked - particularly on the discussion of language, which I’d also been debating with friends recently.

Craig Ferguson talks to Stephen Fry, without a studio audience, on The Late Late Show.’

Honda Personal Mobility Concept

‘I love the straight expressions of those Japanese businessmen. The sight of these bum pad unicycles, stationary and balancing, is quite bizarre, though.’

Scottish Voice-Operated Lift; via @qikipedia.