lifekludger: Computer reads hand signals
This is kind of like using gestures without contact. Wave Power: The G55 picks out key hand signals from webcam video feeds. Photo by Toshiba Funny how, apart from the attempts with voice commands, input always seems to come back to hands. At least this one isn’t touch related. [via Popsci] [more]Blob: Dave the Lifekludger gets a mention by Mark Pesce on New Inventors
Over a month back on my Lifekludger blog I mentioned in a blog post titled “Mind control interface a near reality” the Epoc Headset, being developed by Emotiv. The other day on the New Inventors on the ABC here in Australia my friend Mark Pesce gives a shoutoput to me. Ref 1min in. See the snipped video [...] [more]Blob: Extraordinary Everyday Lives #051 is up.
Latest podcast is up : Extraordinary Everyday Lives #051 : Guest is Mike Poole from Hong Kong - his blogs Greetings Earthlings and A Death in Hong Kong. Get the show here. Dave Technorati Tags: social action [more]lifekludger: Dave the Lifekludger gets a mention by Mark Pesce on New Inventors
Over a month back I mentioned in a blog post titled “Mind control interface a near reality” the Epoc Headset, being developed by Emotiv. The other day on the New Inventors on the ABC here in Australia my friend Mark Pesce gives a shoutoput to me. Ref 1min in. [more]Blob: Post Industrial Context Shifting and Network Productivity
Back in 2005 after thinking about “Attention, Recognition & Context” I wrote in 2006 that I was “hung up on the concept of context“ and a bit later “On context and openness” Which lead to the thinking about how I do what I do at Lifekludger, documented in the “Contexts and Clues” section of the About [...] [more]Blob: Lounge Footy - playing with iMovie
[more]Blob: Openness is great - so says Summize
http://labs.summize.com/sentiment [more]Blob: Openness thoughts grab from Supernova
Here’s some interesting grabs from Twitter during the following discussion at Supernova on Openness I caught this morning. Kick-Off Discussion: The Value of Openness JP Rangaswami (BT) Elliot Maxwell (Consultant) From: @wseltzer on Wednesday, June 18th at 00:17:54 [link] To: @rafik Supernova is http://www.supernova2008.com/ — good discussions of openness and innovation From: @sarahdopp on Tuesday, June 17th at 21:24:14 [link] We’re [...] [more]lifekludger: Clay Shirky on why Lifekludger hasn’t taken off
In the first 2 minutes of this interview from Supernova, Clay touches on the reason why Lifekludger as a collaborative eco system for good hasn’t yet got traction. So far most of the action on the net has been to organise group activity around STOP actions (eg: protests) not START actions (positive change building). [more [...] [more]lifekludger: Wireless Accelerometer Based Mouse Pointer
Caught this via Hacked Gadgets. Accelerometer based input devices could be a great boon for alternative access. Dave Technorati Tags: adaptive [more]lifekludger: The touch barrier — responses
After my previous post about the “Touch Barrier” as referring to the inherent issues of the pervasive use of touch technologies I had some good responses. @lucychili pointed me to work Peter Hutterer is doing with MPX Laurel wrote a blog post “Disabilities social networks games” pointing to a article DISABLED GAMERS’ COMPRISE 20% OF CASUAL-VIDEOGAME [...] [more]Blob: Milton the Monster DNA
I have no idea what Mike’s up to but caught odd fragments via twitter while sitting in a cafe eating my lunch that he was doing some kitchen experingmenting with DNA and fruit. And a reference to Milton the Monster which I couldn’t help but respond to as Milton is a fondly remembered cartoon from [...] [more]Blob: Saturdays of Sheds, Junk and Cassette Tapes
So, I spent most all of today sorting, cleaning and tossing stuff out me shed. As part of the ruthless cull I packed away in a box over 100 cassette tapes that I hadn’t listened to for over 10 years…no over 15 probably. I’m giving them away. But of them there was some I just couldn’t part [...] [more]Blob: The Wall by Pink Floyd - last Second Life Performance
Last month I wrote about seeing the performance of The Wall in Second Life. This is advance notice I got about the last performance coming up. It’s awesome and worth getting up early if you need to to experience it. Saturday 31st May 2pm SL time http://slurl.com/secondlife/Havens%20Beach/224/25/701 Technorati Tags: pinkfloyd, secondlife [more]Blob: ConnectingUp 2008 yahoo pipe feed
Seeing I won’t be there I’ve created a yahoo pipe to track activity at ConnectingUp 2008 Conference.I’m using the tag ‘cu08′ and as suggested by @kanter following the #cu08 hashtag for twitter.Feed published at this link here.{"pipe_id":"048eb7f44190bcb44fac90dbb5ad583d","_btype":"list"}{"pipe_id":"048eb7f44190bcb44fac90dbb5ad583d","_btype":"image"}Dave [more]Blob: HBMFHRPLAHD
For someone special I know. [more]Blob: Welcome to Australia Beth
Was tracking Beth Kanter’s journey via Skype, Twitter Qik on her way to ConnectingUp 2008 Conference in Brisbane. Followed a Twitter on Sat afternoon that she was streaming live on Qik - unfortunately she quickly experienced the bottleneck that exists to any serious entry of Australia participating the Information Economy - our network access. Click here for [...] [more]Blob: Pre Budget 2008 comment and photo for Advertiser Newspaper
Was asked to give comment pre-budget on what I wanted from the budget. I’m never good at the one-line message that newspapers seem to want, I have trouble encapsulating all my thoughts in a short space, so I rambled on a bit and they picked something out that I guess they thought relevant. The photographer was great. [...] [more]Blob: Second Life performance of The Wall by Pink Floyd
I was awake at 5am the other morning so I could go to a artistic performance in Second Life. The performance was of Pink Floyd’s The Wall concert set to the original music from The Wall. And it was spectacular. It is so popular we had to be there an hour before start to make [...] [more]Blob: More thoughts on People and Networks
More on the idea of people networks, Chris Carfi writes on his blog this excellent thought : Networks don’t have people. People have networks.: “Networks don’t have people. People have networks.” - Demian Entrekin In it he has some key thoughts from others including Doc Searles (writes), Dave McClure (writes)and Kevin Werbach (brings it home). The right point of [...] [more]Blob: Latest Extraordinary Everyday Lives #045 : get naked with biff, is out
Extraordinary Everyday Lives show #45 - GetNaked with biff This show we are joined by Richard Birkin (biff) from Naked. Biff is from Derby, England. Biff outlines the Naked ideas and how it works and the ‘kernel’ of what the service offers. We talk about closed being the new open, notions of privacy and trust. There’s lotsa [...] [more]Blob: Interesting times
It’s funny what you see when you glance at the time sometimes. Dave [more]Blob: This is my Jam
thisismyjam.com - a neat new mashup service to create a jam session. http://dnw.thisismyjam.com Dave [more]Blob: Latest Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #044 with Al Upton is out
Show number #44 is out. There has been a bit of a kerfuffle on the interwebs this week as Al Upton and the miniLegends class blog was Closed. Kent couldn’t join us today due to time zone issues. An extremely relevant topic, this show has already had the largest amount of downloads on a single day [...] [more]Blob: Eight Random Facts about Dave - meme
Following an old meme Laurel dredged up and tagged me, here’s eight random facts about me. The rules: 1- Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. 2 - People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules. 3 - At the end of your blog, [...] [more]Blob: The Level Playing Field - ksolo not available in OZ
Saw via twitter a friend of mine, who happens to sing beautifully, had found karaoke on My Space. So I went to listen. Dave Technorati Tags: ksolo, myspace [more]Blob: I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen dust - Womadelaide 2008
My first Womad experience was a memorable one. We nearly didn’t get in as the people at the ticket office were trying to tell us that my carer with me needed to have an ‘official’ carers card! I mean what the hell. My family carers for me, they don’t get paid, and yet aren’t official’ because [...] [more]Blob: On Forgiveness, Openness and Justice
Father Bob on Forgiveness: One was a woman from Rwanda where millions were killed a few years ago. She was from tribe A, Tutsi, massacred by tribe B, Hutu. She’d lost husband and children. She was at a “truth and reconciliation” session arranged by South African Bishop Tutu, (Church and State have a different relationship depending [...] [more]Blob: People don’t scale, People Networks do.
Cross posted from Lifekludger blog I read with interest my good mate, Hugo Ortega’s UberTablet blog. Hugo was the very first guest on our Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast and, outside of my regular colleagues, has been the single biggest supporter of my Lifekludger endeavours, and indeed myself, in a substantial way - providing equipment to try [...] [more]Blob: Share : Connect - World Of We
My friend Biff from Naked Yak wrote something ages ago I’ve wanted to reiterate here as it’s very important: Naked Yak 27/01/08 8:04 AM NakedBiff Nurturing The more we share the more we know each other, the more we have in common. In this sense, how we use the technology that is available to us is key - [...] [more]
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