First things first: here's the video for the Robotics Alley expo. All praise to Shari Gross for shooting editing, and to all the people who endured my questions.
YOU TUBE IS BROKEN Or so we're told. Everyone who thinks the problem with YouTube is the comments, raise your hand.
Okay. Now, if you think the problem with comments arises from the decision to link to Google+ accounts, keep your hand up.
Okay, almost everyone's hand went down. For most people, YouTube is for watching videos. Or, more often than not staring impatiently at an ad, looking at the lower right-hand corner, waiting, ciicking SKIP AD and then watching the video, finally, and then clicking on the X in the ad box that slides up 20 seconds into the video, except you clicked on the box itself and now you have a pop-up window with the ad sent out auto play and you can't find the off button.
This Daily Dot article finds someone who's unhappy:
Yes, that'll make some people nervous at YouTube: 4chan users can't make anonymous comments without "whatever" knowing about it.
CHAIRS OF THE FUTURE A new concept for airplane seats. Interesting idea, but this would seem to require the flight attendants to make the changes between flights, adding more time between landing and take-off. In the future, these adjustments will probably be made automatically by the onboard computer, which is tied directly into the passenger manifest - if, that is, someone runs the numbers and figures there's profit in this. At least it would avoid this problem: "37 stone man is forced to buy two airplane seats, discovers they're in different rows."
You will also note that the Seats of Tomorrow are rather deficient in the legroom department. Anyway, let's cue the judgmental scolds in the comments:
