The tires literally are custom for the RadWagon 4. It uses 22" wheels and tires, which is a non-standard size. You can't buy 22" tires from anyone except Vee Tire Co, which makes them specifically for Rad Power Bikes.
I believe this video is slowed down, meaning the music was “playing” faster when they filmed the video, and the robots were dancing faster in real life.
Why do this? It smooths out motion.
The “dog” jumping with too much hang time would be explained by this.
This was sometimes done in 90s music videos. See the first 20 seconds of the Beastie Boys “So What’Cha Want” video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3gH27Fn6E In that video, I believe the Beastie Boys were lip syncing to a much faster version of the song, then the video was slowed down so it matched the normal tempo of So “What’Cha Want”. (Another example is Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” video.)
I think the same thing was done in the Boston Dynamics dancing video. I haven’t measured the hang time of that dog, but it doesn’t look like it’s in Earth’s gravity.
I don't think that the iPhone 2.0 software had "many similar problems." It had some minor ones, but nothing like what Mr. Pogue described in this article.
I have not used a Blackberry Storm, but it the article makes it clear that there are a number of fundamental problems with the user interface.
There were a few hickups, crashing, etc. with the iPhone 2.0 software, but nothing significant has changed about the UI design (only the underlying system).
What he mentions isn't fundamental, but half-baked, like not having bouncy scrolling or flicks or being laggy. Something can't be fundamentally broken if it can be fixed with a simple update in a few months. Other things he mentions are personal opinion (ie he doesn't like suretype very much) or are things present on the iPhone, for example:
"It can take two full seconds for the screen image to change when you turn it 90 degrees, three seconds for a program to appear, five seconds for a button-tap to register"
Take your iphone, open up contacts and count how many seconds it takes from the tap to being able to scroll or click. ~5s on mine, and I remember it being worse with OS 2.0. And what about switching orientations in ipod? At least a second unless it happens to get stuck and not rotate at all.
The difference here is one of perception. Apple loads their program IMAGE instantly, so it looks like things are going smoothly even when it's taking time. It was a smart move on their part.
Does rotating really have lag? It's pretty much instantaneous for me on a Touch running 2.1.
