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.
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 […]
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)
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 […]
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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. 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 […]
Full Story: Gizmodo.
(via Speedbird).
I really wasn’t going to post anything else about the iPhone, at the very least until I use one myself. But Abe’s notes are very good, if you’re at all interested in seeing an critical look at the interface design of this product.
Interesting notes about the non-tactile buttons. One complaint I’ve heard is […]
Not as pretty as the iPhone, but it’s much smaller than it looks in the above pic.
More info: Neo1973 entry on Wikipedia.
(Above: Nokia 800 running Linux)
A friend of mine bought an iPhone this weekend, and I can now safely say I wouldn’t buy one, even if I had the money. She dropped $600 on the thing, but now can’t use it for anything (except emergency calls) - no music, no PDA, nothing - until her current […]
On IM this morning:
Klintron: the google phone will crush the iphone
Klintron: and it will be free
Klintron: but it will record all of your conversations
Dr. Gabbo: and target ads
Dr. Gabbo: into your ear
Klintron: yes
Klintron: it will play little ads while you’re talking based on what you talk about
Dr. Gabbo: that would be fucking funny
Klintron: like […]
Something’s bothering me about my mobile technology and public space post (besides sounding like an anarcho-hippie by talking about “reclaiming” something), and no one’s called me on it. I utterly failed to make a case for why these changes to public space might be bad.
My attitude towards social change is usually brutal: evolve or die […]
This post Is The Bedouin Worker Killing The Third Place? got me thinking again about the subject of mobile technology and public space. Years ago, there was thread on Margin Walker about “third places” and the concept of “fourth places.”
To sum up, the “first place” is home, the “second place” is work and the “third […]
Cory Doctorow says:
A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration is a paper by Melanie R. Rieback and Georgi N. Gaydadjiev that won the award for Best Paper at the USENIX LISA (Large Installation Systems Administration) conference today. It proposes a “firewall for RFID tags” — a device that sits on your person and jams […]
Attensa (my employers) are previewing Attensa for Outlook 1.5 at Syndicate today (see the announcement here). I’ve been testing 1.5 and I have to say, it’s really cool. The AttentionStream™ technology is still young, so don’t expect miracles, but I’m already finding it useful. In the mean time, there’s 1.2 which we’ve […]
Josh has some ideas for Witness, in response to Joi Ito’s joining their board:
Here’s my observation and suggestion, Joi: Witness is a really, really great program with a really brilliant idea behind it. So why haven’t most web surfers seen these materials, especially in an era when video of civil rights violations circulates almost as […]
Business 2.0 speculates that Google may be readying a free wifi program. Sounds cool, but: “Google’s interest in Feeva likely stems from the startup’s proprietary technology, which can determine the location of every Wi-Fi user and would allow Google to serve up advertising and maps based on real-time data.”
A number of people, notably Abe, […]
I love reading about this sort of stuff:
It’s especially effective for intensifying the thrills of a horror story, said Satoko Kajita, who oversees content development at Bandai Networks.
The Tokyo-based wireless service provider offers 150 books on its site, called Bunko Yomihodai, or All You Can Read Paperbacks. It began the service in 2003 and […]
So I don’t lose these links again:
TRS-80 Model 100 / 102
Epson HC / HX-20
Anyone thinking what I’m thinking?
Camera phone movie
$200 digital film
Machinima
3D gaming on cell phones
Voodoo
DIY video projectors (or and commercial portable projectors)
Red | Blue
Wireless future
Open Source TV