Halloween costumes from Portal 2
Halloween costumes from Portal 2 this year. Next year I think I’ll push for a nice simple Dracula costume :). [Migrated from Google+]
Atlas (from Portal 2) Halloween costume
Close to finishing my son’s Halloween costume (just need to do legs and a portal gun). Biggest problem is that it’s too heavy on his shoulders to wear comfortably. I really need to figure out a better harness or padding. [Migrated from Google+]
Augmented reality in museums
My brother recently gave an academic talk on augmented reality use in museums, using AR as the medium. Museums are always the first application of AR people think of, and it often doesn’t work in practice as well as you’d expect. I think Geoff has a lot of insight into where it does and doesn’t …
Maker camp virtual field trip to Loon
Maker Camp is doing a virtual field trip to one of our launches today! Join the live hangout at 11am PDT to see what I do, or at least what I support (they’ll hopefully show a bit of Mission Control after the launch — that software is the part I’m responsible for). Originally shared by …
Gravity-defying levitating superconductor on a magnetic Möbius strip
via BoingBoing: [Migrated from Google+]
Loon balloon on display
One of our balloons on display on Google’s main campus today. [Migrated from Google+]
Introducing Project Loon
After almost two years, I’m proud to finally be able to reveal what I’ve been working on at Google :). For 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. Today we are unveiling our latest moonshot from Google [x] – Project Loon: balloon-powered internet access. …
Meta-presentation on augmented reality
My brother, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, with a very cool (and very meta) presentation on augmented reality… [Migrated from Google+]
Coffee Computers and Song
Filk album put out by a former coworker of mine — take a listen. [Migrated from Google+]
The perfectly fried egg
Looking to try this tomorrow morning… [Migrated from Google+]