Doesn’t this sound a lot like an iPad in 1972? Edwin Land engaged Charles and Ray Eames to make the video. Was Land an influence on Steve Jobs? And @thoshughes? This video?
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The SX-70 iPad
Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART, FILM, GEEKDOM, HEH, PEEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, SHINY, VIDEO DU JOUR on September 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year
Posted in GEEKDOM, PHOTOGRAPHY, SHINY, VIDEO DU JOUR, Vlogs on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year to all. Like you, I’m trying to stay warm through this cold snap and trying hard to get back to a balanced schedule of working out and working. Not so easy after weeks of homemade goodies and cheer. BTW, Santa if you’re still in the vicinity I just saw a demo video [...]
Fun With IR and Wii
Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, GEEKDOM, HEH, PEEPS, SHINY, VIDEO DU JOUR on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Johnny Lee’s TED presentation, pairing an IR camera (the one in the Wii controller in this instance) and and IR source to make complex UIs available and affordable for the masses:
Ritz-Carlton Staff Excellent For Good Reason
Posted in HEH, SHINY on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m always impressed how stays at a Ritz-Carlton are consistently pleasant. The service is always just right, the staff is polite and their hospitality skills are well polished. Well there’s a good explanation for this, someone there figured out training is of paramount importance in running their properties. There was a Business Week article a while back revealing [...]
Android Schwartz Dalvic
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, SHINY, TELECOM on November 14, 2007 | Comments Off
This should get interesting. On one hand you have Jonathan Schwartz saying this on his blog. On the other you have Google’s Android and their Dalvic VM. Looks like the lawyers (perhaps, heh) and Java programmers are the winners, perhaps all of us as well. Google’s Dalvik VM gives something for everyone, I love it [...]
Jeff Han
Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART, GEEKDOM, HEH, PEEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, SHINY on March 23, 2007 | Comments Off
If you haven’t seen Jeff Han’s implementation of multi-touch yet, well, here’s your opportunity: Here’s another. Being able to use both hands and multiple fingers is much more natural than having a mouse or touching with one finger like at the ATM.
Well-To-Wheel
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, ENERGY, GEEKDOM, HEH, SHINY on January 18, 2007 | Comments Off
There’s a great white paper the Tesla Motors peeps put together arguing the efficiency of electric plug-in automobiles. Bottom line, see page 7 of the presentation, it’s a heck of a lot more efficient (i.e., cleaner and less expensive) to power (i.e., unit of distance out per unit of energy in) with electric than messing [...]
Etymotic Earphones
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, SHINY on October 8, 2006 | Comments Off
One of the great product discoveries I’ve stumbled over in the past few years is Etymotic ER-4P earphones. These guys have by far, IMHO, created the best iPod listening experience. In fact, listening to my iPod, and previous iPods and portable CD players, sucks in comparison when using other headphones – these are the dog’s [...]
Hybrid Vespa
Posted in ENERGY, HEH, SHINY on April 15, 2006 | Comments Off
Okay, here’s a hybrid I can deal with in the city: Vespa announced the new hybrid electric / gasoline model, looks like a hike down to soho is in the cards this week. Wonder if it’s E85-friendly too :)
The xG Technology‘s xMax scheme is seductive. Long signal range and low power are a great combination. Unstrung ran a piece re xG’s commercialisation plan and a VOIP phone. “In the US, we plan to utilize a grassroots marketing campaign to roll xMax out on a viral basis,’†said Rick Mooers, xG Technology’s CEO and [...]
Vyatta Router
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, GEEKDOM, HEH, SHINY, TELECOM on February 24, 2006 | Comments Off
An open source enterprise-class router from Vyatta methinks will be a disruptive kick for today’s manufacturers. Just read Om’s comments and agree fully. The scramble for open source in networking comes because two primal forces tearing the old telecom order apart. First, the Internet-based technologies are replacing the closed legacy phone systems, thus helping the [...]
Stereoscopic Video
Posted in FILM, GEEKDOM, SHINY on January 30, 2006 | Comments Off
Heh. What do you get when you glue together two Panasonic AG-DVX100A cams, bypass the miniDV tape resolution and colour ceilings by feeding the data directly from their a/d converters via USB, mod a pair of Apple Mac Minis to boot from flash memory and smack in a pair of fast hard drives, sync both [...]
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