A new podcast, Talking Robots, features interviews with high-profile professionals in robotics and artificial intelligence for an inside view on the science, technology, and business of intelligent robotics. The podcast is created by the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL, Switzerland. The initial episode (MP3) features an interview with Dario Floreano, a professor at the Ecole […]

At the NAMM Summer Session, a convention for music retailers held July 14-16th in Austin, Texas, iPlayMusic was showing a guitar tutorial video system.The system features Mac software that lets you play videos and read tutorial information on playing guitar. A unique feature, though is that you can export the videos to iTunes and sync […]

Yahoo! wants you to have A Public Affair with Jessica Simpson, with no strings attached.Yahoo! is selling personalized versions of the new Jessica Simpson song A Public Affair from their Yahoo! Music web site. What makes it newsworthy is that Yahoo! is letting you get the track personalized with your name (a large list of […]

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport has introduced a series of free podcasts in English and Spanish to provide travelers with information about parking, restaurants and shopping.According to DFW Airport Chief Operating Officer Kevin Cox, the DFW Airport podcast is the first podcast in the world provided by an airport. “It’s a big place,” Cox said of […]

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has introduced Architecture Knowledge Review, a podcast series for design professionals, featuring interviews, discussions, and best practices by architects and others at the forefront of the profession. The current episode looks at The Architect as Civic and Community Leader (MP3). Other topics have included the Choreography of Architecture, Feng […]

A new video podcast promises to reveal the Secrets of Second Life.Franklin McMahon Studio, producers of Media Artist Secrets and the Rumor Girls video podcasts, has introduced a new video podcast, based on the virtual world Second Life, entitled Secrets of Second Life. The new podcast explores Second Life with video tours and provides tricks […]

Once a year, 1000 people are invited to the acclaimed TED Conference in Monterey, California, to share ideas.Now the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference has introduced TED audio podcast and a TED video podcast series of the best talks delivered at the conference. The talks, which feature Al Gore, Bono, and more than 30 other […]

Etiquette alert! In recognition of National Cell Phone Courtesy Month in July, Sprint is releasing a wireless etiquette podcast (MP3), encouraging cell phone users to tune in and brush up on their manners. The podcast is an episode of Sprint’s The Communications Insider podcast. Sprint’s etiquette spokesperson, Jacqueline Whitmore, founder and director of The Protocol […]

The St. Louis Art Museum is using iPods to enhance visitor’s experience of Remote Viewing, an exhibit that looks at how contemporary art can transform the chaos and information overload of our daily lives into invented worlds that exist somewhere between abstraction and representation.The museum is distributing iPods, along with a 40-minute multimedia tour. (The […]

iPod software developers Coolgorilla wants you to get with Parisian babes. They’ve released a new free iPod French Translator that promises to help. “Want to ask the stunning Parisian Brunette if you can buy her a drink?” they ask. “Easy! Simply select the phrase from the Menu in English, play the French translation and you‚Äôre […]