Friday, December 14, 2007
Saw already twice (Joi‘s and Matt Jones‘s) this morning a link to Mission Bicycles, an interesting project just started where you can design your own bike, that starts as a “light steel frame fixed gear bike with high quality components, a custom paint job, no visible branding”. That reminded me of Stefano and SlyWay, an [...]
Friday, December 14, 2007
game mod from steph thirion on Vimeo. Game Mod was a six hour long workshop with the objective of showing the participants that it is not required to understand code to experiment and play with it. Although they had no experience in coding, the task of each participant was to make a mod (modified version) [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
well, actually “just” 56. 56 archetypical geeks that Scott Johnson illustrated and aggregated in this poster as well as making them available as individual portraits (prints also available here). Seeing this poster made me remember a conversation had a long time ago with Lilia and Phil Wolff on the many natures (or many types) of [...]
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Boing Boing reports about RFID Guardian, a personal RFID firewall. The Guardian is a personal device that operates by detecting the RFID tags on your person (keys, passport, bank cards) and jamming them so that they cannot communicate and answer queries anymore. If you prefer a network analogy, it’s a firewall for your RFID-accessible data. [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Last night I attended the second San Lorenzo dinner in London. This time the focus was on cheese, of which we tasted a very impressive selection, paired with different types of honey and the usual generous quaff of piedmont wine (oh, Barbera, my love! :) but also Nebbiolo, Gavi to end with a sweet Moscato). [...]
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Good old Babele posted a video (in Italian) of the iAble, the office suite totally controlled through eye tracking developed at SRLabs (the last Italian company I worked with before moving to the UK).
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
…improving the experience of… city users! In particular, of pedestrian underpasses. Why do I blog this?: two reasons. The disclaimer here is that Ana, one of the Secret Path group members, is our new designer @ Headshift! So this is a sort of welcome :) The other reason is that I found this installation quite [...]
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
A savant centric steampunk adventure in alternate Victorian London product The Difference Engine ★★★☆☆ By W. Gibson and B. Sterling (1990) The adventures of a few improbable heroes set in a Victorian London, where lord Byron is leading the country with the aid of steam powered computers. Not the best book I read from either [...]
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Usually these days I don’t blog about new websites that much, but I wanted to drop in a note about the new kid on the block: sketchcast. Yet another surrogate of blogging, you say. Oh-no just a mash-up of blogs, podcast and screencast, you say. Well, yes… and no. There is an interesting difference: if [...]
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