Tag: fun
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feeling productive…iPhone glove
after another rough week of classes, planning and discussions about projects without actually making anything, i needed a quick productivity break. iPhone gloves. some quick background. the touchscreen on the iPhone and iPod Touch (as well as the older click wheel iPods and trackpad on Macbook/Pro’s) use the capacitance of skin to track touches. gloves […]
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Thinking Physically: {h}ears
megaphones for ears. inspired by prince, tigre and penguin. i’ve always been a cat person. when i lived with my first cat i’d watch his ears swivel as he would listen to the sounds around us. sometimes i’d make quiet noises when he was looking away to see if he’d turn his ears toward me. […]
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(Signal to) Noise meter, ITP 4in4, day 4
For today’s project I wanted to do something with the analog decibel meter that Tymm gave me on day one. My idea is to calculate some kind of signal to noise ratio in my email inbox and to display the value on this physical meter. Since I already get a lot of noise in there, […]
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pressure…
…i always feel pressure to write something useful here…knowing that it’s linked to from the blog blender and that there is a steady stream of visitors (well, a really small number, but consistent…so let’s acll that a “steady stream”, ok?) – damn you google analytics! i never cared until i added that, although it did […]
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i knew that it’s been watching me.
years ago we used to joke that the small microphone at the top of some apple monitors (beige powerPC era) was a stress sensor and would allow the computer to detect when you were getting frustrated or were under a deadline and would then misbehave to spite you. when the macbooks added the isight camera […]
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Autobahn.
Commuting. I really want to permanently install a cheap digital camera on my handlebars with a remote swtich somewhere so I could take really quick pics while I ride…I see a lot of weird stuff every day…
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OS X Leopard’s Alex text-to-speech…breathing?
Maybe this is old news…but it was a surprise to me when I thought I heard the (relatively) new Alex voice inhaling when speaking some text. Try it out yourself, using TextEdit (spelled to aid pronunciation): This is a test. Didd I juhst take a breath? (Yes, I will). I hope so, I really need […]
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Bloob.
I’m a big fan of a portmanteau words… I recently realized that my blog entries are excessively long on the front page. Some clever individual though to implement a break in the articles when on the main page…but I haven’t until lately needed to use something like that. However, I tend to be a bit […]