Life-Size Gundam Moves

The life-size RX-78 Gundam replica in Odaiba looks awesome in pictures, but it looks even more awesome in motion. Here it is showing off its lights, mist machines, sound effects, and head movements.

It’s not flying around yet, but there’s still time for Japanese engineers to work on that. The Gundam Big Expo convention starts on August 21st.

Opera Unite: Why?

It’s trivial to run a Web server from your desktop. In fact, it’s how the Web started. There’s a reason we don’t do it anymore, though. From power to optimization to availability to scalability to security to connectivity, running a remote Web server in a well-built datacenter is simply more efficient all around.

That’s why I scratch my head at Opera integrating a Web server into their browser with Opera Unite. Sure, people can share files, but don’t we already have enough cloud-based services for that? Don’t enough people already know how to post a picture to Flickr, or a video to YouTube, or a file to Rapidshare? Click here to continue reading "Opera Unite: Why?"...