This article reminded me of the thoughts we had working on Kymatix–handheld scanning, location-awareness, mobility.
Here’s the product: Print Dreams

Tying in to Paul Rankin’s comment that “locations are the most important”–and the thoughts I had of “hot spots” and “Bob: go to the Quad, our system says something is happening”–there is a cool service being developed over at Berkeley that allows for collaboratively-filtered webcamming.
Basically this means that from Roy Pea’s 360-degree camera, users (meaning […]

This article in the economist is pretty fascinating. Contains the following buzzwords:Experience economyWiFiProject OxygenBig BrotherAnd many more…

Here’s the video I mentioned earlier–cool virtual host to be sure.
For all his rationality, he gets his feelings hurt later in the movie…”Why, why was I programmed to feel pain?” The Simpsons

I mentioned Shazam a while ago with disbelief. Well I guess it’s legit and the brains of the operation is speaking at Stanford. Bob, want to check this out? If I could forward this to you as an event, I would
Avery Wang, distinguished CCRMA and Hearing Seminar graduate and now CTO of Shazam, will be […]

Have you guys seen the 2002 version of “The Time Machine”? All in all not a great cinematic acheivement, but notable for a very cool implementation of a virtual tour guide. Orlando Jones plays a computerized New York Public Library librarian, possessing all human knowledge. This comes in handy when the main character is trying […]

Obviously we need to deal with our own audience when making our privacy decisions, but a recent study seems to say that people no longer worry about privacy when services give them uses for the information.

The teenage phenom is going to be at Stanford next week for the Internet Law Conference. Any questions for him? XML-related? He’s looking for things to do…

The Samsung 213T is everything I liked about the 191T, only bigger :)

If you put 10 geniuses in a room for a few years, maybe they could build an awesome video system. Alternately you could get a somewhat knowledgable individual, make them a nametag that says “Genius” and put them in Meyer.
There’s something to be said about real people and their flexibility. The best Faux human implementation […]