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Scenes From Bob Young's New Tech Circus

Posted by timothy on from the circuses-need-elephants dept.

Chris Strider writes "Bob Young has left Red Hat, but he's still been keeping busy. I recently went to his new venture, the Lulu Tech Circus. I have to admit some of the stuff there was pretty cool, especially the robotics. On the other hand, some of it was pretty weird, like the electronic band with the alien heads. Anyway, the local online TV station RTPTV.com put up some video scenes from the Circus if you want to watch it."

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  1. A shame by jem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm saddened to see that at an event that is showing the lunatic fringe of high-tech and robotics, there is nothing more original than a first person shoot 'em up to play.

  2. disappointed by mrycar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was expecting so much more than just an apparently poorly attended fragfest with RC robots, techno bands, and fan driven gumbies.

    Maybe it was just the videographer, but I doubt iy. The presentation of the circus seemed lame.

    Where are the Gee-Wiz things? Virtual Reality, Biometrics, intelligent robots, etc.

    With Circus in the name, at least they could have added pizzazz to the existing presentations. This looked more like a geek user group presentation.

    This show has a good premise. We need to excite the youth and the community with technology. Present it in a way that non-geek people want to stay.

    Hopefully the next show will be better.

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    Gator/Claria is Spyware.
    1. Re:disappointed by freaksta · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually, if you look, there is VR.

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      Hrrm... I usually just sign my name.
    2. Re:disappointed by 1Oman · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Hey I am one of the guys that built those robots and they are a lot more than just R.C. cars.

      Ceck us out at www.opensaurus.com

      Jason

  3. Hrmm by enneff · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just watched the video, and aparrently what's known as a "computer show" has been renamed to a "Tech Circus". I'm sorry, but the presence of people dressed up in ridiculous suits, jugglers, and a square-shouldered man in drag does not make an event a 'circus'. Almost everything displayed in the video is openly available retail at many stores.

    A pretty amateurish video, for a pretty amateurish event. A good 30 second was devoted to people playing Unreal Tournament 2003 - how incredible. Narration of some sort would have definately made this a lot more interesting. At many stages it's unclear whether the robots are remote or ai-controlled.

    One thing that was very cool was a robot climbing up a wall and what looked like looking for holes to put something into. (again, some sort of narration would be great)

    I must say, I am a bit surprised to see this on Slashdot. Then again, Slashdot never really ceases to surprise me. :)