My brother Aaron sent me a text message earlier today that pretty much sums up the Maxpedia experience:
wap encyclopedia with unlimited data is like having a real hitch hikers guide
(Link added.) I haven’t subscribed to my carrier’s data plan for a while, but it sounds pretty sweet.
2 comments October 5th, 2005
The Optimus Keyboard, a design from the Art. Lebedev Studio, is a physical incarnation of the Key Caps desk accessory from the old-style MacOS. (Apparently it’s called Keyboard Viewer now.) Every single key is a 32×32 OLED screen. This would make learning new keyboard interfaces and typing special characters much easier, and it’s a valuable illustration of what can happen when objects document themselves as much as possible. And it’s amazingly cool to boot.
Add comment September 27th, 2005
The UC Hastings library is under renovation this year, and a large fraction of the collection is now in a former student lounge. The lounge also has a few vending machines, and some of them display vaguely authoritarian messages:
I wonder what’s next. Perhaps something like this:
Add comment September 27th, 2005
Shepard’s Citations is a vitally important but really annoying-to-use legal reference work used to ensure that the case you just looked up is still good law, and to see what other cases have cited it. The Hastings library has a cute guide if you’re really keen to learn more, but as a technologist, I found this treatment by O’Reilly author Bob DuCharme more interesting.
Add comment September 14th, 2005
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