Noted here earlier, the OLPC 2.0 indeed feels like the future. Really, anything else (short of the Nokia Morph concept) seems stale in comparison.
Here are some speculations at ComputerWorld about what the future may hold.
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OLPC XO 2.0 may be a glimpse of the future
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Lawrence Lessig on the Kozinski scandal
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Here are the facts as I’ve been able to tell: For at least a month, a disgruntled litigant, angry at Judge Kozinski (and the Ninth Circuit) has been talking to the media to try to smear Kozinski. Kozinski had sent a link to a file (unrelated to the stuff being reported about) that was stored […]
Excellent William Gibson interview
Friday, June 13th, 2008
I like it because I grew up in a really extreme monoculture in southwestern Virgina. I was surrounded by Southern white folks – this was in badass Appalachia, up in the hollers where my mother’s family had been forever. Having that experience in a small town made me happiest in big cities. Especially in radically […]
txt msg based job hunting in Kenya
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Kazi560 is a txt based job hunting tool available in Kenya. It allows job hunters to subscribe to job alerts by SMS, and allowing them to find employers who are hiring rather than going door to door looking for work - a very time consuming process. They’re adopting Craig’s List’s business model: employers pay to […]
Wii spray can
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
a couple of Media Art and Design students are working on a Wii-Controller turned Spraycan. Wiispray is a prototype, currently under heavy development as part of a final-thesis design work by Martin Lihs at Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany.
Wiispray aims to give sprayers all the tools of a real-life spraycan with a digital extension. This neat […]
Wearable sampler that manipulates sound through motion
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Sound Candy is a wearable sampler that lets you record into its built-in mic and manipulate its sound by changes in speed, angle, vibration and rotation.
(via Califaudio via Grinding)
Little Brother “How tos” on Instructables
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
As a promotion for the new Cory Doctorow book Little Brother, Instructables is running a series of related “how to” articles, including:
How to blend in with crowds
How to lie to authority figures
Encrypt your Gmail Email!
How to locate pinhole cameras
Spice Mister
Avoiding Camera Noise Signatures
How to Start A Flash Mob
How to block/kill RFID chips
Photo-emulsion Screen Printing
What to […]
Growing rooms, buildings & cities
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Full Story: Next Nature
(via Posthuman Blues)
Wifi detecting Nike sneakers
Monday, May 5th, 2008
A Step in the Right Direction is a sneaker based wearable technology project designed by mstrpln in collaboration with Ubiq boutique.
Once the pressure sensitive insole is activated, the unit scans the surrounding area for Wi-Fi signals and displays the result through LEDs.
The three LEDs on the flap enclosure represent the signal strength of any wireless […]
Microsoft’s backdoors for cops?
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad […]
There’s gold in them there page views…
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
What to make of all this…
Google Profit Jumps 30% Despite Slowing Economy
Federated Media takes $50 million in VC
Six Apart Launches Ad Network
Meanwhile:
Food rationing is back.
Wishful thinking
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Please see update/correction in the comments
Two economic crises face the world today: the credit crunch resulting from the subprime mortgage crisis, and the food prices crisis precipitated by the demand for biofuels. Both are problems we should have identified and solved years ago, but didn’t. Why did we ignore the warning signs and allow ourselves […]
Fox News journalistic masterpieces
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Fox News. It’s hard to talk about greatest hits without mentioning their war coverage or their coverage of racial issues. As a political and cultural propaganda machine, there’s little outright funny about Fox News’s persistent distortion of reality. Or, if there is, the jokes on the people of the United States and […]
Four other Big Brothers
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Four other Big Brothers:
(I started this back when Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo!, but I’ve only just not gotten a chance to finish up).
We all know about the potential “Big Brother”hood of Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!. Here are four other organizations with massive databases or the potential to collect extensive personal data.
Amazon, the other data […]
Onion: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
(Thanks Nick!)
1960s Braun products compared to modern Apple products, plus gallery of other Braun products
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Full Story: Gizmodo.
(via Speedbird).
First shot fired in Google-Wikipedia, Secrecy-Transparency war
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Wikia Search launched today. So far it’s nothing much, but the plan is to grow the product over the coming years. Jimmy Wales said in a comment on TechCrunch:
When I launched Wikipedia, I wrote at the top of the first page “Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaâ€. On that day, anyone reviewing it would have laughed. What’s […]
Klintron for Hire
Monday, August 20th, 2007
I’m currently available for the following:
Articles:
Web 2.0
Technology
Culture
Politics
Occult
Marketing Communications:
Press releases
Copy writing
Web sites
Blog templates
Newsletters
Brochures
Etc.
Speaking:
Web 2.0
Blogging for businesses
New media
Magick 101
Organizing for alternative communities
E-mail klint at klintron dot com
Five reasons I prefer Yahoo! Mail to Gmail
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
1. I’ve been using Yahoo! a lot longer and don’t want to change my e-mail address. The reason I signed up for Yahoo! Mail in the first place was that I was tired of changing my e-mail address and just wanted one address that I could rely on forever (and Yahoo! was better than Hotmail). […]
Thoughts on Ubuntu, two weeks in
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
So I’ve been using Ubuntu exclusively at home for the past 2 weeks, and at this point I’m confident I won’t be going back to Windows.
After the mess I made of my hard drive during my first installation attempt, I wiped the disk out and made 3 partitions - one for Windows, one for Linux, […]