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  Israelis Unimpressed by Bomb Disarming Robot

  21 July 08 | Permalink | Comment?

  On a recent trip to Tel Aviv, I woke up to the unmistakable sound of three gunshots outside my hotel window. The source: a bomb-disarming robot neutralizing an unattended backpack.
  Turned out to be nothing, of course, but as I filmed the below clip, I was struck by the normalcy of the whole scene. For the [...]

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  You Almost Have To Feel Bad For Blockbuster

  04 June 08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Years before Netflix or anyone else posed a threat, Blockbuster was hard at work killing itself. A brief history of the chain.

• Advertising, TV, Tech

  Facebook Ads Run Aground

  07 May 08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  As you read this, thousands of 18-34 year old men are watching Tampax commercials. Not because they want to, but because television is an imprecise medium that makes it hard to get the right ads to the right people. As a result, we’ve been conditioned over decades to expect irrelevance at the commercial break.
  But wasn’t [...]

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  Modo: The First Wireless Lifestyle Device

  01 April 08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Before the cell phone merged with the PDA and the “mobile web” meant much of anything, there was Modo: the first wireless lifestyle device. Released in September 2000 by a SF-based startup called Scout Electromedia, Modo was the anti-Palm Pilot: a clever, irreverent city guide aimed at the 18-34 year old set. Each night, as [...]

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