Hey Kid, try this. What is it? A Sony Walkman.
“I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down “rewind” and releasing it randomly - effective, if a little laboured.”
Changing The Game of Life
Watch this demo of a wearable device that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment.
If you’re a reader, read this.
From Ars Technica’s The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age: “A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books.”
Technology Isn’t Bad….Except When It Is
From Bokardo’s The Tyranny of Context - Bokardo: “I think this all comes down to what I’m going to call The Tyranny of Context. When we’re in the context of our lives, using technology to augment our daily activities, we don’t think about it as technology, per se. We see it as a tool to [...]
Blackberry Politics
From the Atlantic’s The Lightning Rod: “Since her arrival, in the summer of 2007, Rhee, just 38 years old, has become the most controversial figure in American public education and the standard-bearer for a new type of schools leader nationwide. She and her cohort often seek to bypass the traditional forces of education schools and [...]
The Candidates’ Tech Policies
From Slate’s Obama vs. McCain on media policy: “Both campaigns have ‘tech plans’ that include plenty of feel-good generalities. But behind them lie fundamental differences between the candidates and a rift between their main advisers. The essential difference lies in the view each candidate takes toward private power over the public media. McCain and his [...]
You’ve Got…A Telegram
From the NY Times’s McCain, the Analog Candidate: “The serious question — and one that has occupied many of the blogs and discussion groups that Mr. McCain does not partake of — is whether the computing habits of the presumptive Republican nominee should have any bearing at all on his fitness to be commander in [...]
Hi-Def Global Warming
From the Guardian’s Climate risk from flat-screen TVs: “The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater impact on global warming than the world’s largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist warned yesterday. Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make the televisions, and…as a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride [...]
A Game Changer?
From JSharkey’s Android Scan: “Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and metadata for anything with a barcode…Just point your phone at a barcode and scan it.” What happens next is pretty damn cool, but the game changer aspect is that it shows you the price of the item as sold by various virtual [...]
Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free
From NY Times’ article, Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free: “One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world’s children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low-cost machine that is light, rugged and surprisingly versatile. The [...]
