Love that the Google doodle today honors the what Bob Moog brought to music. He would have been 78 today. The Moog synthesizer (Pronounced “mohwg,” not “moo-g.”) has been in use for more than four decades’ worth of pop, rock and other music including film. It got me thinking about the best songs that feature Moog lines. Here are 10.
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Posted onApril 5, 2012|Comments Off on ‘Terminator’ style glasses from Google
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Google released some details Wednesday about a Project Glass initiative that is pretty amazing. These ‘Terminator 2′-style Google goggles use GPS technology, Google maps and voice recognition software to keep you hands free and completely connected to the internet as long as you wear them. The technology isn’t yet available to the public.
Posted onAugust 11, 2011|Comments Off on The guys that could have bought Google
Remember Excite.com? Well in the late 1990s they had the chance to buy Google for $1 million. Excite wasn’t interested. The offer was lowered to $750,000. Excite passed. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stuck with it and their once small search engine is worth about $180 billion. Excite declared bankruptcy in 2001 and the owners now have to tell this story to their grandkids someday.
Posted onJuly 13, 2011|Comments Off on Google: What do you love?
Google has a new feature that allows you to search across everything Google offers with one click. Type in something you love and every result is displayed nicely on a single screen. I’m gonna go see what comes up when I type “Grizzly Bear Attack.”
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