Logbook of things

Jul 20

The Facadeprinter is a large scale communication tool produced by German design company Sonice Development GmbH that shoots artwork onto walls.

(Source: psfk.com)

May 08

Microsoft creates Kinect-like system using your laptop’s built-in speaker & microphone

Apr 25

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Feb 23

In this modern era of smartphones and connected appliances, home automation shouldn’t require a complex, expensive, and closed system — and with Belkin WeMo ($50-$100), it doesn’t have to. Combining an app with Wi-Fi-enabled Home Control Switch models and motion sensors, WeMo can give you the power to turn off lights, appliances, and more, or have them operate automatically based on who is — or isn’t — in the room.

Feb 10

“The decision to shutter the business, which Kodak says will save it more than $100 million a year, is the strongest symbol yet of the sea change in consumer electronics and decades of missteps that forced the former blue-chip company to seek bankruptcy protection last month.” — Dana Mattioli, reporting for the WSJ - A sad fate for a once-great company. But when not selling a product saves you $100 million a year, you know you were in the wrong business or doing business wrong.

(Source: daringfireball.com)

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The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40. The number of projects that are truly impossible unless you put in 80 or 120 hours per week are vanishingly small by comparison.

This is of course nothing new. We’ve been playing this bongo drum for years. But every time I see people crumble and quit from the crunch-mode pressure cooker, I think what a shame, it didn’t have to be like that.