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Flying dutch man. They use a special motion mechanism built around an Android phone and Nintendo Wii controllers. His system allows him to literally start flapping his arms to take off and keep flying. (probability fake)
Facebook is playing a different design game than the rest of Silicon Valley. Instead of obsessing about making tasks like posting a photo easier or making the interface more beautiful, Facebook is getting its product out of the way. The goal, explains Cox, is to “make the experience of using Facebook as seamless and easy as talking to people in real life.”
Most of our competitors are interested in doing something different, or want to appear new — I think those are completely the wrong goals. A product has to be genuinely better. This requires real discipline, and that’s what drives us — a sincere, genuine appetite to do something that is better.
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Augmented Reality Sesame Street. Very well done. Interacting with real toys and a digital world. After watching it I do wonder if this kills creativity for kids as they can only do what other people thought of. Not think of their own special world and create their own stories without this AR world. I think there is a time and place for AR and this is not it.
