Disordered Cogitations

In the "Smart Prosthetics" department we have the Eyeborg, a digital camera embedding into a human eye socket. From the Singulari...

For later use: Steelcase Walkstation TED Prize Winners My Flickr Set Benjamin Button Poster Wall Aptera Regina Specktor Electric Motorcycle ...

Just aggregating some TED2009 videos for later use: TED 2009 Conference Titles TED Prize Robin w/Einstein SixthSense Wearable Computer TED 2...

Following on the theme of bionics, my friend Mandy pointed me to Stelarc , a performance artist who specializes in machine control of the hu...

Human performance augmentation (bionics) was one of the themes at the TED conference last week. I recently listened to a podcast of Tim O...

I went to TED last week. See my Flickr set . I was impressed at how upbeat, optimistic, and energized this conference was. There was gene...

Parallel Kingdom is a geo-located mixed-reality warcraft-like game. See the videos .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredcavazza/2564571564/sizes/o/

Just listened to an iTunesU lecture given by Bill Moggridge , of IDEO , to the Human-Computer Interaction Seminar at Stanford. He talked ...

Here is a quick video overview I made of CES .

Eliezer Yudkowsky gave a great overview of the three competing theories of technological singularity at the 2007 Singularity Summit .

Here are five suggestions, made to me by my friends, which I have carried around on slips of paper for a couple of months. I put them here...

My friend, Bob, pointed me to a book I am putting on my reading list: Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality by Edw...

I just watched Larry Lessig's TED talk . WOW! Not only was the content of his talk brilliant, his use of historical analogy was stunni...

Guy Kawasaki, in a talk to O'Reilly's 2007 MySQL Confernece, entitled The Art of Innovation , lists 9 rules of Innovation. Jump to t...

Juan Enriques in his 13 October SALT talk ( summary , mp3 ) made an interesting comparison between agriculture and energy. It used to be th...

Dave pointed me to a new video that makes the point of hyperlinking and tagging solves the misc problem.

Bruce pointed me to this:

Jonathan has an interesting piece on the value of past data in the present, and how we need to preserve the present so the future has a ric...

National Geographic reports that bird migrate by looking at the earth's magnetic field lines. Scientists already suspected birds' e...

BoingBoing points to Keio University research that allows a person to operate second life, just by thinking about it.

Irving has an interesting post on robots in virtual social networks. He sez: The Huggable is a robotic communication avatar designed for ...

3PointD has two interesting postings. The first discusses the virtual Vietnam War Memoria l in Second Life and the second speculates on the...

Dave pointed me to a interesting ManyEyes visualizatio n of Bin Laden's recent speech. I registered and uploaded the Gutenberg.org Alic...

Doc pointed me to a very clever Wilkinson advertisement using avatars for actors. I understand that creating advertisements in virtual wo...

I just discovered a good short summary of transformation theory by Marcia Daszko and Sheila Sheinberg . Here is a snippet. (scroll down ....

Thanks to my friend, Mike, for the pointers: The old one - - - The new one - - -

The TierneyLab blog over at the NYTimes has an interesting post about the genetic evidence that there are more women in our individual and ...

Clay gives us a definitive definition . He has parsed the argument correctly. He then follows with this insight : The internet's output...

My friend Rob pointed me to this article on virtual terrorism from news.com.au . "Just as real-life companies such as Toyota test thei...

The TED blog pointed me to this great Business Week piece on making presentations. In short, Build Tension One Theme per Slide Add Pizazz...

I have a whole box of LP records with my favorite music from the 60's and 70's, including one from Bread! My friend Mark let me kno...

Irving Wladawsky-Berger has a great posting on why humans like virtual worlds. He says: Maybe the reason I am so excited about the whole ...

Here is an amazing visual presentation at the March TED conference by Jonathan Harris. His work is now on line at http://universe.daylife.c...

Scott Adams waxes eloquent on the power of the compliment.

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f390265dcbb9e1f1da97a69637e921d39b6c99aa

Prediction Markets have been around for a long time, starting at the U. of Iowa . The American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Ins...

My friend, Daniel, pointed me to an O'Reilly Radar blog post about an ant simulation in Second Life by Tectonic Nabob. Way cool!

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Here is the Flickr set of photos of my recent trip to San Francisco.

I am here at the Supernova Conference where we are discussing what to do with the ubiquitous web. This is difficult because it is hard to ...

My friend Gwen pointed me to an interesting piece on innovation from EDS . It cites Charlie Feld on the importance of engaging different di...

New World Notes reports on a protest inside Second Life against the government of Venezuala's Huga Chavez.

JackBe has a well-designed, well-populated website , and an enterprise Web 2.0 product that has real potential.

My friend Mark pointed me to a political game about redistricting from USC . By exploring how the system works, as well as how open it is t...

TEDBlog gives us the formula for Google Page Rank.

Watch an overview of TED 2007 .

The Innovation Weblog points to an interesting new brainstorming product called Think Cube . Here's the hype: ThinkCube is a complete ...

The Innovate on Purpose blog has a good review of the book, Group Genius . The review starts: The path to becoming more innovative often r...

Jonathan's blog points to a nifty little device called a SUN Spot . It is a battery powered, USB connectible, very small programmable ...