Archive for the 'tech' Category

James Cameron: Before Avatar … a curious boy

Saturday, March 6th, 2010


A few weeks back James Cameron spoke at the TED conference about the very successful movie Avatar and a few influences to the movie. At the time I had not seen Avatar, but this week right before it left theaters I finally watched it (twice) and understand his lecture a great deal more.. It’s pretty amazing how much influence Abyss the movie had to Avatar and how Titanic was the fund raiser for it.
Watch the video above or on TEDtalks.

“James Cameron’s big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic — from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving — and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits “Aliens,” “The Terminator,” “Titanic” and “Avatar.”"


Marc Dalessio: time lapse self-portrait

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010


I use to draw self-portraits back in high school I but never had the patients to film the process like Marc Dalessio does in the video above. Cool.


MIT Flyfire Swarm Concept

Thursday, February 25th, 2010


Hmmm, perhaps one day we wont be looking at pixels on a screen, but walking right into them thanks to these firefly LED flying bots. I’d like to imagine them as LED dust instead. Watch the video here.

via gizmodo


I’m Sorry (ctrl+z)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

These “I’m sorry” embossed cards really made me smile. $3.75 on etsy

via swissmiss


Kevin Kelly tells technology’s epic story

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

“In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk from TEDxAmsterdam, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives — from its impact at the personal level to its place in the cosmos.”

via TEDtalk


Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!”

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Incredible talk by Bill Gates about his vision to solve the worlds energy crisis at TED2010:
“At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.”

via TEDtalks


Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010


Wow! Bing has really taken Maps navigation to a new level. First off they are finally integrating Photosynth into Maps which will take some time to become more common due to cameras lacking gps data, but then they blow the socks off of the TED audience with streaming video footage inside a map taking augmented reality to a live reality. Watch the video above to be blown away!


Happy Holiday!

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

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Happy Holiday to everyone. I’ll be out in Hong Kong for the break and will be back with some goodies to post most likely dealing with food, shopping, and culture.

If you have not already, please join the Facebook Fan page here which I post to often but write less and it’s open for fans to post to as well. I’ll post a few goodies I shared on the fan page below recently for the holiday break:

- Tadpole like sleeping bag (pictured above) Reminds me of Selk bag.
- Newspaper laptop sleeve holder. I’ve gotta get this!
- TED launches Best of Web.
- Cool jacket..I like asymmetric clothing which is hard to come by for guys.
- LED lights save energy, but don’t melt snow
- Ping Pong office convertible table
- Awesome silloutte clock!
- xylophone table

JOIN THE DESIGNVERB FACEBOOK FAN PAGE HERE!


The Evolution of Storage

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

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Pretty neat Info Graphic by Curtiss Spontelli inĀ  The Evolution of Storage.(Flickr image)


Newser: read less, know more

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

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Check out Newser, where you read less, but know more! Catch a glimpse of the world at a glance. Reminds me a bit of DiggLabs, NewsMap, and popurls to some extent.

via bookofjoe


Running Jumping Rabbit

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Running Jumping rabbit video! Pretty neat. Now they need to strap a camera on the car to sense oncoming objects to let the animation react to real time objects it’s projected on!

via notcot


PopTech 2009: America Reimagined

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Intro to PopTech from PopTech on Vimeo.

I’m off to Poptech 2009: America Reimagined for the rest of the week. Follow their PopTech hub for live updates and I’m hoping like in previous years the live broadcast of all the speakers. It’ll be a chilly one this year, but I’ll be back with some updates, posts, and goodies like before.

update: Ah, yes, they are streaming it as usual here.