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fastcompany: “People know more about their iPhone than they do their own health,” points out Travis Bogard, Jawbone’s VP of product development. “So how do we make them consumers of their own wellness?” Today Jawbone is finally unwrapping their attempt to solve the problem: The UP, a $100 wristband, smartphone app, and web app trio…
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sum1: Take note that the image is taken in the Google cafeteria in San Francisco. So it stands for ruthless capitalism now as Google indeed doesn’t ask you for permission before grabbing your data. The artist, Eddie Colla, might have had something else in mind. street-art: sum1: If You Want to Achieve Greatness Stop Asking…
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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design A great conversation about the things we make, or aspire to make… In 1968 — three years before the invention of the microprocessor — Alan Kay stumbled across Don Bitzer’s early flat-panel display. Its resolution was 16 pixels by 16 pixels — an impressive improvement over…
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jillsies: 17th Century Modernism? The abstract paintings shown here are not by Kazimir Malevich or Paul Klee but by Hindu tantra devotees from Indian cities like Jodhpur and Chomu, the anonymous heirs to a pictorial tradition that dates to the 1600s. Painted on salvaged paper and rarely measuring more than a foot high, the images…
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futuramb: smarterplanet: IBM open-sources ‘Internet of Things’ protocol | KurzweilAI IBM announced it is joining with Italy-based hardware architecture firm Eurotech in donating a complete draft protocol for asynchronous inter-device communication to the Eclipse Foundation, ReadWriteWeb reports. A projected 24 billion simultaneous devices — sending billions of messages per hour — including RFID tags on…
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Jetan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jetan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thanks to Richard Gottlieb for the link to this. Edgar Rice Burroughs in his book, The Chessman of Mars, created a game as a plot device that is playable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chessmen_of_Mars#Jetan_and_its_influence