In the 100 years since the hulking ship slipped beneath the surface of the Atlantic, a wealth of ideas have been offered for how to bring it back up – many of them proposed before the ship was even located by Bob Ballard and his crew in 1985. Let’s take a look at 11 of the weird brainstorms offered up over the last century. 1. Fill It With Ping Pong Balls One of the most commonly cited ideas for raising the ship is one that calls for filling it with ping pong balls and letting their buoyancy raise... READ ON

In this video, founders of three major online services talk about how they have embraced the internet's transformative power for creative work. Kickstarter changes how people fund their creative work. Creative Commons changes how people share their stuff. And The Creators Project supports artists who use technology in their work. This six-minute video from PBS Off Book does a good job summarizing why these things matter. Have a... READ ON

Some of you might have noticed it already, but I only saw it last night: a new addition to my Gmail menu. Right up there at the top, where I've drawn the arrow on the image above, you'll find a new product called Play, which, for all intents and purposes, we could call the Google equivalent of iTunes. There's books, music, movies, games, TV shows, some free, some for sale, but all downloadable to your Android device. Since we're not really in the business of reviewing tech products on the _floss (never... READ ON

Have you worked in a warehouse? How about a warehouse filled with Roomba-like robots that crawl the floor looking for stuff? In this three-minute presentation, Kiva Systems founder Mick Mountz explains how his company's robots work: the robot locates an item in the warehouse's "pod" system, fetches the pod containing the item (while avoiding other robots driving around), brings the pod to a "pick worker" (human), who hands the item off to a "packing worker" (also human), who puts the item (or collection... READ ON