We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
Pranav Mistry of MIT Media Labs, called one of the 3 greatest minds on earth today, has created a new wearable device called SixthSense. Watch the video below, compliments of Ted.com, and be amazed. Then realize…
You can create this yourself for a few dollars in off-the-shelf parts, and free open-source software Pranav is making publicly available!
We grew up interacting with the physical objects around us. There is an enormous number of them that we use every day. Unlike most of our computing devices, these objects are much more fun to use. When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other. A gesture of “Namaste!”, maybe, to respect someone, or maybe — in India I don’t need to teach a kid that this means “four” in cricket. It comes as a part of our everyday learning.
I have used “Pinger” at pinger.com for years now. A great service my brother Andy turned me on to… Pinger recently launched a “Private Alpha” of their new service called called Pingercast.
Please help me test out PingerCast by using the following widget. Fill-out / sign-up and tell me what you think:
Ooyala.com has a new video management, editing, and hosting suite called Backlot… The download is free, and so is all management, editing, and uploading. They make their money charging a very fair fee for “minutes viewed’ of embedded video online.
Their viewer has 2 configurations – 3D and 2D… Toggle switch is on bottom right corner. Comment back on which you like best.
ChangeThis.com kicks ass!… I stumbled upon http://www.changethis.com/ last weekend. The site regularly posts “manifestos” (in the form of PDFs) on a range of positive, impacting topics — all from top writers.
ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread… We’re on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds… READ MORE
ChangeThis was built in the summer of 2004 by Amit Gupta, Catherine Hickey, Noah Weiss, Phoebe Espiritu and Michelle Sriwongtong. You can read their bios in this blog entry. The original idea behind ChangeThis came from Seth Godin. You can read about him on his website.
Below is the 103 page “manifesto” — The Bootstrapper’s Bibleby Seth Godin. …The viewer comes comes from Adobe Labs new Share beta.
Download and view the PDF below… Then, come back here and comment — post your opinions of The Bootstrapper’s Bible, The Adobe SHARE Viewer, and ChangeThis.com.
