I remember when I first got my iPhone and was super bummed out that it wasn't Flash compatible.  "Everything on the web runs on flash!"  I said to myself. "How am I going to be able to do anything?"
I was wrong.  Since that moment several years ago, I have run into a problem with not having flash on my iPhone maybe twice.  It turns out the big hubbub about Apple's mobile devices not having Adobe Flash wasn't that big of a deal.

Well, I found an article on TechCruch that agreed with me.  It refuted the arguments that the iPhone or iPod touch or iPad were any less without Flash.  The fact of the matter is that not much is soley run on flash anymore.  Yes, YouTube and some other video players are Flash based, but they are accessible by other formats as well.  Also, HTML5 is on a great rise, and will most likely replace Adobe Flash in its functionality on the web in the years to come.  So, when Steve Jobs decided that his products didn't need Flash, he was right, and I see no reason why it wont stay that way.

TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/28/apple-flash-suck/

I found an article on Engadget that tied in nicely with the idea about self driving cars that we discussed a little in one of the broadcasts.  The article was about a mind controlled car.  An apparatus is worn on the head that interprets brain wave patterns, and this interpretation is used to control the car.  The ones designing the car, a group of researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin,  are actually a group that have being trying to develop a self driving car like Google is.  The car would drive itself, and the passenger could give commands to the car such as left, right, speed up and slow down to the car.  Here is a video about the research:

I got an iPhone quite a while ago.  Right now I have (wow, just checked) 228 apps.  One of the first apps that I got was Shazam.  It is an amazing app.  Just record 10 seconds of a song, and it can identify it (most of the time).  Then, at some point, they decided to put a limit on the number of songs one could identify on the free version.  Being slightly cheap when it comes to iPhone apps, I found another that did the same thing: SoundHound.  Since then, when I heard a song on the radio or somewhere else that I wanted to know, I would just pick one randomly (unless Shazam was past its limit).

Well, Lifehacker pitted the two apps against each other to see which one was more effective.  They put the two through a series of tests that measured the effectiveness of the apps.  Overall, SoundHound seemed to come out on top.  However, they also found some interesting patterns in the use of the apps.  Shazam seemed to pick up pop music better, while SoundHound had more obscure songs as well.

Original article: http://lifehacker.com/#!5757214/shazam-vs-soundhound-battle-of-the-mobile-song-id-services

I was looking through Gizmodo, and I found three extremely interesting articles, and I couldn't just pick one, so here goes:

The first caught my eye because it simply looked awesome!  Take a look:

I have a secret love for the works of Theo Jansen.  He is a artist/engineer who recreated the wheel.  The somewhat creepy leg looking things beneath the hamster ball are the design of Jansen.  The hamster vehicle was created by this man (I suggest taking a look, his stuff is pretty interesting):
http://crabfuartworks.blogspot.com/2011/02/hamster-powered-walker.html

Also, take a look at Theo Jansen's works sometime, they are amazing.  Here is a video from a while ago about him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR7U2tuNoY

Original article: http://gizmodo.com/5753306/no-rodents-were-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-elaborate-hamster-wheel


The next article took me by surprise.  It is about a previously un-contacted Amazonian tribe.  It is crazy to think that there are still places in the world that modern society doesn't even know about, much less a place where humans are already living.  Here is an image taken by plane as it passed overhead:

Original article: http://gizmodo.com/5752429/uncontacted-jungle-tribe-caught-on-video


The last article I noticed is about a technology I have recently become interested in.  My mother got a Kindle e-book for Christmas, and the display looked like nothing I would have expected.  No back light, crisp, and looking like they were made to; like paper.  These displays work with e-ink, a somewhat newly widespread technology that uses little battery and looks a lot like regular ink on paper.  Well, the article I found was about an e-ink tablet.  Think about having an endless supply of paper that you could save in a digital format all in the form of something like this:

No more notebooks or backpacks.  If it really had a battery life of 180 hours and only cost $100 dollars like the article said, I would be hard pressed not to buy it.

Original article: http://gizmodo.com/5752688/i-really-really-hope-this-noteslate-paper-tablet-is-real