March 29, 2007
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Body Hacking Quinn Norton, Reporter, Wired New Quinn talks frankly about her rare stone/magnet finger experience. The wrap for the rare stone broke and her body started to attack the rare stone and left over bits of iron. When trying to … Continue reading
March 29, 2007
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Emerging Technologies from IBM Almaden Research Center–Koala & Spintronics Tessa Lau, Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center Kevin Roche, Advisory Engineer/Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center Koala Technology allows you to automate web interactivity scripts to log into sites, fill in forms aka do … Continue reading
March 28, 2007
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Sufficiently Advanced Magic Seth Raphael, MIT Media Lab The difference between magic and science? Science is about giving away the secrets to so we can improve it. A long time ago Magic was Technology and now recently its been magic vs … Continue reading
March 28, 2007
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The Core of Fun Raph Koster, President, Areae, Inc. Things which work have a underling structure. Structure is deep but fractal, it breaks down into many levels. Raph uses jazz and blues music to demonstrate deep structure. Songs are made up … Continue reading
March 28, 2007
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The Coming Age of Magic Mike Kuniavsky, Co-founder and Principal, ThingM So generally a good talk but the best ubiquitous computing/ambient intellengance objects are magic like devices. Magic as a metaphor for ubiquitiy. Nabaztag as a enchanted rabbit Ambient devices globe as … Continue reading
March 27, 2007
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When your a UK ISP like Demon advertising to the public. The advert above for 8meg business enabled broadband at 24.99 pounds a month is exactly what I have had for the last 3 plus years. When Broadband first came … Continue reading
March 27, 2007
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So after a brief talk by Rael Dornfest, We're into Tim's talk. He's doing his radar talk but not using his usual quote. This time he uses the pulling your weight quote. Then talks about hackers pre-production and pre-business. Mentions … Continue reading
March 26, 2007
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So when I bought my Dell laptop with the extended battery, I was thinking about conferences where theres usually very little power. So now I'm at Emerging Tech or Etech2007. I'm thinking I should really take advantage and try live … Continue reading
March 25, 2007
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So what would do after a 10 hour flight to San Francisco then a transfer to San Diego 3 hours straight afterwards? Easy, go clubbing right? What? Don't tell me you would crash at your hotel, moaning about Jetlag! Well … Continue reading
March 22, 2007
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Belle and Herbs has been recommended by Meri, Elly, Gareth and Molly. So I checked it out with Meri and Elly when I was down in Newcastle the other day for the Backstage University tour. Its got a strange 60's … Continue reading
March 18, 2007
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I have not blogged for quite a while. This is down to a few things. Ecto is simply doing my head in, as it keeps loosing draft entries and screwing up on the spellchecker. I paid for the software and … Continue reading
March 10, 2007
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There’s nothing I hate more than sitting down for a film at a cinema only to have that horrendous F.A.C.T. screen come up to threaten me about what could happen to me if I take a photograph or record the … Continue reading
March 8, 2007
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I was reading Tom Morris thoughts about attention. First up I thought damm I missed another Beers and Innovations (I actually need to pay attention to the upcoming events calendar in Outlook more often). But more deeply Tom's thoughts about … Continue reading
March 7, 2007
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Been considering my next phone again. My current SPV M600 is great but there are a couple of things which I would like to change. The lack of 3G is a killer now I have applications like Google Maps on … Continue reading
March 3, 2007
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I was reading Antoine Quint about his speaking engagements and saw he will be talking at Xtech 2007 too. Putting SVG and CDF to Use in an Internet Desktop Application sounds interesting enough, but then he goes into detail. The … Continue reading