In the future, people will point phones at you to check your interwebs while you speak. Notable about the video, and others, is the emphasis on the corporeal identity – face recognition, real-time video of people – seems to continue the anchorage of online identities to literal pictorial and video evidence. Facebook is a good [...]
On Monday, July 20, Oliver Wiedlich will be presenting on the mobile user experience followed by a panel discussion including myself, Oliver, Julian Wong and Rod Farmer. 6-8pm at Horse Bazaar, which is just behind that car with the boot open: View Larger Map Should be outstanding – here’s the full details at the Human [...]
The house I’m staying in over Christmas has a dining room adjacent to the kitchen. The dining room is small, just big enough for a six-seating dining table and a cabinet for the fineries, and it opens on to the lounge room. The dining room is never used. I’m writing from it, and my partner [...]
Almost every nation keeps collections of native seeds so local crops can be replanted in case of an agricultural disaster. The Global Seed Vault, opened this year on the far-northern Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, is a backup for the backups. It’s badly needed — as many as half the seed banks in developing countries are [...]
I love this. From the Match Bar menu. (I had to look up Vahlrona, or is that Valrhona. Either way, I guess it’s bad-ass chocolate.)
Spin cycles in clubs with DJs, bike fetishism and fashion. The blurb for the 2008 finals from SuperDeluxe: Gold Sprints: (separate into three levels as professional cyclist, bike messengers and the general) / Live: CopaSalvo / DJ: DJ Quietstorm (NakameguroYakkyoku), DJ Koba (CopaSalvo) + more / SlidShow: monmon, PAI, SexySushi, Riki and screening cool bike [...]
“The market for personal and service robots is about $3 billion now but is expected to reach $15 billion by 2015″ Newsweek: Why Should We Be Friends?
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