My son Noah made this piece of apple+spaghetti art when he was three years old. I chose to interpret it as a comment on the fall of man and the expulsion from the garden of Eden.
Måned: april 2005
Arbitron’s Portable People Meter
Engadget: Arbitron’s Portable People Meter Engadget writes about the Portable People MeterPeople Meter, «a pager-like two-inch by half-inch gadget that is supposed to be able to track all the media you’re exposed to throughout the day. Volunteers in Houston who have agreed to test the Portable People Meters are expected to wear them during all… Fortsett å lese Arbitron’s Portable People Meter
Scientists Create Remote-Controlled Flies
ABC News: Scientists Create Remote-Controlled Flies NEW HAVEN, Conn. Apr 8, 2005 – Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans. Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the… Fortsett å lese Scientists Create Remote-Controlled Flies
Clocky, the best robotic idea since R2D2
Clocky, the best robotic idea since R2D2 Clocky: «Clocky is a clock for people who have trouble getting out of bed. When the snooze bar is pressed, Clocky rolls off the table and finds a hiding spot, a new one every day. «
Ideas for interactive movies workshop, february 23-25 2001
Found some old notes when cleaning out my network share at work, pretty neat stuff for 2001, and I still want to work more on these. Please don’t steal them, because then I would have to kill ya, and that would be really impractical :) Here it is, unread, unproofed, and unedited. 001. Working title:… Fortsett å lese Ideas for interactive movies workshop, february 23-25 2001
The Blair watch project
Image via Wikipedia Introducing the Blair watch project from Guardian Unlimited: Election 2005 «Devoted Guardian readers will have read Oliver Burkeman’s account of trying to keep track of Tony Blair in Dorset South yesterday, in which he describes how misdirection sent reporters scampering across southern England, in a ‘meandering day-trip’ in search of the prime… Fortsett å lese The Blair watch project
HOW-TO: BroadSnatching to a Portable Media Center
HOW-TO: BroadSnatching to a Portable Media Center – Engadget – www.engadget.com.
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention In a culture that hails mobile phones and plasma-screen televisions as the great innovations of our time, Smith is gloriously out of step. She designs medical devices and labor-saving machines for people who live at the far end of dirt roads in Africa. Her inventions cost anywhere from a… Fortsett å lese Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
A MacGyver for the Third World
Wired News: A MacGyver for the Third World: «Alternative fuels are one way to cultivate that change. Smith recently created some simple, effective methods to make charcoal from agricultural waste. The first method she developed after visiting Haiti was simple: First, the juice is squeezed from the widely grown sugar cane. Next, the remaining fibers,… Fortsett å lese A MacGyver for the Third World
Can you have too much ease-of-use?
Photo: Snooze, from Flickr (CC) Stipping things down to the bare minimum is Apples mantra. But isn’t easy equal to boring? Excerpt from an interesting article on the subject: Think about it… skiing, dancing, chess, photography, flying, dressage, gardening, dog training, environmental activism, religion… when people are into any of those things passionately (as opposed… Fortsett å lese Can you have too much ease-of-use?