Our Sixth Sense: Wearable Fluid Interfaces
This week at the TED conference, Pattie Maes from MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group showcased the latest work of her students, “a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done.” Pattie ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Adobe Max
It was great to see Simone Legno (aka Tokidoki) speak about his work and process. That’s his laptop shown above.
WordCamp 2008
WordCamp is a one day event organized by the creators of WordPress for users and developers. This year’s event was held on Saturday at Mission Bay Conference center and featured talks by a range of people. In his “State of the Word” address, Matt Mulllenweg mentioned this was the largest ever WordCamp with over 400 ...
Google I/O
Marissa Mayer spoke at the Google I/O conference (video at YouTube). Lots of great sessions about APIs, the social web, and the Flight of the Conchords played at the party, complete with a chocolate fountain and great appetizers. Well done, Google.
Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, 2008
I really enjoyed O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo this year, which took place in San Francisco on April 22-25. The Expo is a companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit, and “an expanded, inclusive gathering for the technology and business communities through a combined conference and tradeshow.” I’ve been fortunate to be part of the planning ...
15″ MacBook Pro
2.4 ghz
Crunchies
The annual Techcrunch award show at the Herbst Theater in SF to honor the best “new” startups of the year. Co-sponsored by GigaOm, ReadWriteWeb and VentureBeat. Fun to catch up with the usual tech and startup crowd, as well as my friends and clients, Om Malik (GigaOm) and Richard MacManus (ReadWriteWeb).