The “Break it Down” Blog

What Google Engineers do for Fun: Computerized LEGO Art Project

What happens when you are really smart… like Google-lead-engineer smart, you move into a new place that has a big blank living room wall and you end up being bored one weekend? Well, I’ll tell you what I would do… I would order pizza, probably watch a movie, stare at the wall for a good [...]

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LivePlace Sneak Video Shows Life-Like 3D World via Browser

Grant Gochnauer sends in news to a video that blows my goddamn mind, I’m honestly not sure what to make of this. Either it’s an extreme mockup, or the graphical/interactive/virtual-world bar that exists today is about to get broken in half and shoved right up someone’s ass. The video below is supposedly an unauthorized leak of [...]

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Man Trains Crow to Retrieve Money

NPR reports that Joshua Klein has trained crows to retrieve spare change and drop it off at a receptical in exchange for a peanut. Apparently Josh (J-Dogg I call him) found crows to be the fastest to adapt to this system, figuring it out almost immediately. Here’s a quick 1 min talk J-Money gave on the [...]

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