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Happy Chinese New Year (vegan) wonton noodles for long life!
My First Citizen/Social Media Inauguration
Yesterday’s inauguration of President Barack Obama was significant in so many ways. For web geeks like me, it’s the first time citizen media played such a significant role during an inauguration. Given Obama’s grassroots campaign and his message of citizen responsibility, this is only apropos. Numerous netizens, web sites, blogs, video sites and social networks ...
Emily Chang Nominated for the 2009 National Design Awards
Ideacodes co-founder Emily Chang has been nominated for the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards 2009 program for excellence in Interaction Design. This is the first year that they will be giving an award in Interaction Design. The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum ten years ago to honor the ...
QuadCamera: Continuous Shooting With your iPhone Camera
QuadCamera is the the 4th release by Art&Mobile of their ToyCamera series and features continuous shooting. Just press the button, and it takes 4-8 serial shots to create one image in multiple dimensions and repetitions: a 4×2 portrait, 4×1, 2×2 landscape, and 8×1 landscape (as shown below). This is great for fast action and motion ...
Cubits
New modular shelf from DWR.
Generate Electricity by Walking
What if we could generate electricity just by walking? Kohei Hayamizu, a Japanese engineer, has been working on this idea beginning with a technology system he developed in graduate school. The system makes use of piezoelectricity, “a property certain materials have to generate an electric current when they are squeezed or pressed.” His first experiment ...
Robot Density
From The Rise of the Machines By Erico Guizzo There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they’re the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers – a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly ...
Cielos Luminous Surfaces
The Cielos modular lighting system designed by Billings Jackson Design for Zumtobel “provides a simple method of designing, installing and maintaining luminous surfaces. The shallow profile plug-and-play units are elegant with colored light and video-compatible LED models.” From Architonic: Implementing a luminous surface that provides uniform light distribution doesn’t get any easier than this. The ...
Pledge Ada Lovelace Day
I pledge that for Ada Lovelace Day I will publish a blog post on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 about a woman in technology whom I admire. Details: Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces ...
Macworld 2009
I had the pleasure of going to Macworld Expo again this year here in San Francisco. I wish I had more time to attend all the demos, but it was the first week back after the holidays and I had lots of client work. As a Mac-geek, it’s memorable that this year is the last ...
