Feedstuffs: Augmented Embroidery, Creativity, Textbook Weirdness

February 25, 2010
By ian
Feedstuffs: Augmented Embroidery, Creativity, Textbook Weirdness

BoingBoing offers Augmented Embroidery – patches you can sew on to whatever. Someone takes a picture of it with their smartphone and the QRcode sends them to your website. Pretty neat, and I find ‘em aesthetically pleasing. From Richard Kadrey’s Twitter, a Salon article on what readers wish writers knew. The Guardian asked writers for their...
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Jamais Cascio on Futures Thinking

February 25, 2010
By ian

I spent the last hour or two reading Jamais Cascio’s series on Fast Company titled Futures Thinking. Cascio’s a futurist (among other things) and is without a doubt one of my favorite people to read. I follow both his Fast Company blog as well as his regular blog at Open The Future, and loved...
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Wearable Mil-Spec Keyboard

February 24, 2010
By ian
Wearable Mil-Spec Keyboard

Engadget, via Colleen Kelly’s twitter. I could think of so many geeky uses for this thing it’s not even funny. Colleen wants it paired with a mil-spec head mounted display, which I thoroughly approve of. I’d rather it be joined wirelessly with one of those awesome hologram-tables like they have on Bones. Hey, I doubt...
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Recent Acquisitions

February 22, 2010
By ian
Recent Acquisitions

Picked up a few things recently, figured I’d share. First up: I decided I want to carry my camera around with me more. I’ve been hesitant, since I don’t like carrying around an extra bag just for my camera, and if I put the camera in a regular bag it often gets jostled and inadvertently...
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The Kills: Sour Cherry

February 21, 2010
By ian

The Kills – Sour Cherry Just started listening to The Kills. Incredibly sexy, fun, contagious music that absolutely begs to be played at the loudest possible volume.
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Wire This.

February 21, 2010
By ian

In the episode of FourCast I just listened to (see: previous FourCast post), Molly Wood mentioned something that sent my brain off on a tangent. Molly talked a fair bit about nanotechnology, including both massive dangers and massive changes that it may bring to people. She believes that at some point, nanites in our...
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