Urgent Now for Entertainment

Over lunch, I was narrating to a buddy, a hilarious episode of a show, that I watched on TV, the previous night.

I went on and on about,  how hilarious  the episode was...how the "gang" tries desperately... going through sewage... pretending to be a boat tour guide...just to watch a movie.

My friend could not wait and his hands went instinctually to the Mobile and he started his Google Search. After some time, he watched a youtube promo.

The TV Show promo says "Kitten Mittens"and my friend looks at me quizzically.

"No, the episode I am talking about is fantastic. It is nothing like this commercial. Go home and watch it on Hulu or Netflix."

While it is possible to Google Now for information, there is no affordance to "sample" video here and now, so that people can get introduced to awesome shows, catch up on past episodes, re-watch interesting portions of the "Soup Nazi".

...until now. 

"The walls between Art and Engineering exists only in our Minds"

Theo Jansen builds large mechanisms out of PVC pipes and plastic bottles, that are able to move on its own, without battery or electricity.

He strives to equip his creations with their own artificial intelligence, so they can avoid obstacles by changing course when it detects an obstacle.

“Life should be able to move itself. When I  started creating "Strandbeests", I found the top of legs should  move the parallel with ground first and after a while,  moved up a little in a certain way. I decided to trace this same movement with a link mechanism and simulated the movement on the screen of my ATARI computer. Finally, I came up with the 13 "Holly numbers" that expressed the proportion of the  length of legs segment

Theo is neither an Artist nor an Engineer. He is sort of both. As he characterizes,”the walls between Art and Engineering exists only in our minds”.