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Honda u3-x

Honda is using technology gained through the development of ASIMO to make a new type of indoor human transports. This reminds me of the SBU 2.0 by Focus Designs that I linked to last October but designed for fine indoor movements.

Imagine one of these with an attached work surface and laptop, I would not have to leave my desk for most of the day… hmm not sure that is a good thing.

chrome grew some

Over on the Chromium Blog (Chromium is the open source version of Google’s Chrome web browser) they have announced their intention to drop the H.264 video codec support from the <video> tag in favor of putting more energy behind WebM and Theora. Talking about a ballzy move, a great show of support for open standards and open source.

Like John Gruber I fear this could hurt battery life on mobiles. Only time will tell but ultimately I hope they succeed.

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