Ok, been a while. Lots of stuff this week! Next week I’ll post a bunch of recent book reviews, but this week is all about CES (no, not really, it was kinda lame but there were some highlights hidden among the biggest, smallest, thinnest, tabletest, netbookest, appstorest stuff).
But first, 2 links close to my heart…
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1. Rhiza has started creating short films to explain some wonderful new features. For a taste, check out this one about building Google Earth tours based on your own data.
2. During the summer our Trillions film was shown at TED Oxford. This fall I was a speaker at a TEDx event focused on education, kids, and the future and had a chance to explain a bit more about the challenges and opportunities ahead. You can see my TEDx talk here.
Other favorites from the conference… My favorite speaker at the fall TEDx conference would probably have to be a wonderful musician named Midge Crickett. She deserves to be a big star. Go watch this now. A highlight at the conference was Dr. Vicki Phillips from the Gates Foundation. Her talk was about their focus on (significantly) funding educational initiatives that based on evidence rather than… a) Luck, b) Hope, c) Best intentions, d) Inertia Ok, I posted about his stuff a while back (look for ReCapcha), but Luis was a highlight at the conference as well, he played the whole “I’m geeky and awkward, but really not” thing pretty well. Check out his talk.3. I love this mini promotion.
4. One of the big CES highlights was an augmented reality meets iPhone meets remote control helicopter thingy (helicopter whirlyball anyone?)… For more CES highlights, go to the bottom of my links…
5. When I can get this kind of quality out of Google maps or Earth, I’ll start to get excited.
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Picturing the past…
What to do with books if you’ve got a laser cutter and a bit of time…
Proctor and Gamble has been doing a very successful experiment over the last few years that you may have heard about in the book called “The Game Changer.” The effort was focused on helping P&G do big organic innovations. It was called the “Clay Street Project.” I just found out that is has now opened its doors to the world and doing work for other companies as well. Check it out here…
The magic of copper and gravity…
Yikes, scary ATM device to steal your code!
Two office pod/blobs this week…
OfficePOD…
and bloboffice.
A good overview about current thinking around design thinking in academia and business…
A fascinating article about genes and environment and resilience…
Detecting coronary artery disease with an iphone? There’s almost an app for that.
Nicely done ad for a coffee house…
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OK a quick roundup of Consumer Electronic Show highlights…
First if you were there, you might have gone here…
Skiff reader demoed at CES with flexible e-paper.
The creepy disembodied head card of the future…
I think I like this business card better (always looking for lethality out of my business cards)…
Lots of smaller and smaller things at CES… picoprojectors are starting to be seen in the wild…
The peregrine touch glove looks like a rehash of stuff from the 90s but is with more sensing (30 touch points)… I just wonder if it’ll make any impact given all the pattern recognition work going on with cameras today… Could be interesting for detailed medical or music simulation stuff though…
RED showed off their super high-end digital camera system…
I think this falls under the heading Because we can…
Ok, I just want to lobby that they change the name of this one…
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