This is the greatest invention. Ever. Commuters in South Korea can now do their grocery shopping whilst waiting for the train to arrive using their mobile phone to scan the QR codes of the virtual goodies they want. The order is then delivered direct to their doorstep the next day. Amazing! Sure beats moaning about the crowds, delays, smells, noises …
Have you got the skills, chops and the posse to build a killer site? This flowchart will show you the way.
USB Stick Computer for $25
David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite.
Over his career his studio has brought us the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, Thrillville, Lost Winds, and most recently Kinectimals. In the background, however, Braben has been trying to tackle another problem: getting programming and general learning of how computers work back into schools.
Braben argues that education since we entered the 2000s has turned towards ICT which teaches useful skills such as writing documents in a word processor, how to create presentations, and basic computer use skills. But that has replaced more computer science-like skills such as basic programming and understanding the architecture and hardware contained in a computer.
iPhone meets Polaroid
Designer Mac Funamizu has really hit the jackpot with this. His latest invention, the cryptically named Sophie, is an iPhone case which prints photos just like a Polaroid. Simply take the picture, then print the photo out the bottom of the case. Genius! Now, who will start mass-producing this concept so we can buy one?
Display Cabinet
DisplayCabinet is the output of 24 hours with Tim Burrell Saward and Dan Williams “connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” as part of the Pachube Internet of Things Hackathon.
What we did.
The aim of our project was to tackle turning data into information that’s easy to digest and act upon. We set out to avoid screens that draw focus and create a prototype “calm” projected display for the data created by, for and about the people, products and services that can be found in and around the home.
Use a proper keyboard
Miss the old school look and feel of a typewriter? Think you’d bang out novels like Hunter S on one? Well, we have the solution for you. Sit your iPad in the Typescreen and you can actually type using the real keys on the typewriter. Fun, huh. And guaranteed not to improve your writing skills. More…
Playstation 3 Supercomputer
Rome Lab’s supercomputer is made up of 1,700 off-the-shelf PlayStation 3 gaming consoles
Computer scientists just up the Thruway at Rome’s Air Force Research Lab have assembled one of the world’s largest, fastest and cheapest supercomputers — and it’s made from PlayStation 3s.
By linking together 1,716 PlayStation 3s, they’ve created a supercomputer that’s very good at processing, manipulating and interpreting vast amounts of imagery. This will provide analysts with new levels of detail from the pictures gathered on long surveillance flights by spy planes.
From syracuse.com …. Read more>>
Internet accessible contact lens
There’s some interesting research being done at the University of Washington by Babak A. Parviz and his team into the feasibility of creating the world’s first internet accessible contact lens.
That’s right. In the immediate future, you’ll be able to browse your faviourite websites, watch movies and seriously augment your reality via a miniature LCD display that will sit on the eye’s surface.
From ieee Spectrum
Evolution of the Geek
