Month: August 2012

  • theavc: The future won’t look like this: 11 unintentionally ridiculous depictions of virtual reality  Would you use any of these ludicrous devices?

  • prostheticknowledge: EXO by Tabor Robak  Part first-person game, part demoscene, part ‘experience’, all Sci-Fi, all worthy of 35 minutes of your time, available for free for PC and Mac. Here is a silent preview, embedded below: If you don’t want to download the game, there is a 35 minute video to guide you through the…

  • jtotheizzoe: kqedscience: will.i.am, NASA team up for first song from Mars “will.i.am listens to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Sciences and Exploration Directorate Chief Scientist Jim Garvin talk next to a mock up of the Mars rover Curiosity in Pasadena, Calif. Today at 4PM EDT, NASA will debut a new song by will.i.am.” Will.i.am ……

  • Methods For Facilitating Network Transformation

    Methods For Facilitating Network Transformation csessums: New post on generating positive network effects. Yummy!

  • Design Thinking workshop for K-12 educators in Colorado. Sponsored by Donnell-Kay Foundation.

    Design Thinking workshop for K-12 educators in Colorado. Sponsored by Donnell-Kay Foundation. Design Thinking workshop for K-12 educators in Colorado. Sponsored by Donnell-Kay Foundation, who seek scalable education reform. I cannot see who is delivering the workshop, but it points to IDEO resources and a book about “lean startups” that pursue “constant innovation. "constant innovation”…

  • Design Thinking for Educators

    Design Thinking for Educators tool kit by IDEO. Outlines design as a five step process. Contrast with Schon, who identified it as a two stage cycle of Reflection and Action.

  • futuristgerd: unexpectedtech: Cory Doctorow: “The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing”, Talks at Google (August 2012) Brilliant stuff from one of my fav writers – Cory Doctorow (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • kateoplis: “Welcome to my latest experiment. I am the Coquette, and I’ve carved out this little corner in the hallowed halls of Playboy to spread around a thick layer of brutal truth on the current state of modern masculinity in the hopes that some of it sticks to the back of your eyeballs. This column…

  • While everyone else out there is looking for Photoshop skills and interaction solutions. I’ll be looking, primarily, for curiosity. The thing is, I can look at a portfolio and figure out your Photoshop ability. And sure, we could (and probably will) whiteboard a design problem just to make sure you think critically. But if you’re…

  • The Millennial wants to tell people not just ‘I’ve made it,’ but also ‘I’m a tech person.’ ” Smartphones compete against cars for young people’s big-ticket dollars, since the cost of a good phone and data plan can exceed $1,000 a year. But they also provide some of the same psychic benefits—opening new vistas and carrying…