Seems odd that ticketmaster would not have have been willing to purchase them for more than that (unless of course ticketfly didn't want to go that route, and was leaving money on the table).
<<Ticketfly has an interesting origin story, the company’s co-founders sold their first startup, TicketWeb to industry leader Ticketmaster for $35 million in 2000 and then left that company in 2008 to form Ticketfly.>>
Big advertisements probably have a lot more color than the normal red-yellow-white you see from traffic. Chances are it's not quite so vivid to the naked eye, but a camera sensor with nice flat full-spectrum sensitivity can reveal all the color. You see this a lot with telescope photos; in low light our eyes mostly just pick everything in the sky as white dots, but a photograph can capture a lot more.
This is insanely great! Now, imagine if binaural audio was combined with an accelerometer sensor (in the earbud/headphone) so that when you turn your head, the sounds' origins would be adjusted in real time to reflect your new head position. This would be awesome for video games and movies.
To make this work, you would need to record the location of every sound. Easy to do for a video game (where the software knows the exact object or person emitting a sound). But it would be harder for movies, as this sounds localization data would need to be captured on set and handled during all post production work.
I did a little research and a field known as ambisonics (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics) generalizes this concept to more than 2 speakers. Now that I think about it I remember that the guy behind the xiph.org videos debunking digital audio myths lamenting that not enough research was being done on ambisonics.
If you live in a walk-up building and there is a payphone/hotspot on your block, would this actually allow you to cancel your internet and exclusively use this for your Wifi? (Article says 150ft range...)
By which you mean they already exist today? My parents got a demo ride in one at a google event earlier this year. As long as the city involved is Mountain View, the vehicles already exist.
(Google's current effort relies on extremely detailed mapping of all the roads involved, but given the continued existence of the StreetView program that approach probably scales tolerably well.)
Mountain View doesn't really qualify as a "city" in the sense of city traffic. The roads are wide and not particularly densely packed. Not to downplay the accomplishment, but it's probably a long way from being able to handle San Francisco let alone New York or London.
Taxi rate in NYC seems too low. I tried a couple of trips that I have taken dozens of times, and they have never, ever been as low as whats being calculated. I like the idea though.
