Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff, Tools on Feb 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Nuance buys up MacSpeech
This is interesting news, speech to text is useful for many people including people with various kinds of disabilities.
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Tech Stuff, Tools, iPhone on Jan 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Pen vs. Keyboard vs. Newton vs. Graffiti vs. Treo vs. iPhone
This is a great review. It’s not a scientific test but it explores these different methods of getting text into a device in a way that will help anyone think about the future of text encoding on a variety of devices in a broader way.
The [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Tools on Jan 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Intel Reader Offers High Tech Help For Dyslexics and Visually Impaired
Intel’s Reader, developed by a dyslexic Stanford graduate, is a powerful device for dyslexic and visually impaired readers, allowing them to scan entire pages of text to audio for immediate playback or later review.
This looks quite interesting. If anyone reading this has used one or [...]
Posted in Ideas, Tools, Video on Nov 7th, 2009 6 Comments »
Has Japan designed the world’s best bike shed?
This is a great invention and an excellent documentary video. The only possible bottleneck not shown in this video is when ten or more people are waiting to park or retrieve their bikes. In the US things might get ugly.
[via Jon Moss]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Tools, Video on Oct 13th, 2009 2 Comments »
WIRED article the video was shot for: Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses.
This is fascinating stuff and while it’s been around for a while, the article and video really show us what’s happening in detail.
The robots are built by Kiva Systems. Watch their demo video. Fascinating. I just ordered some hiking boots from Zappos and no [...]
Posted in Ideas, Tools on Jun 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Man Modifies Pickup To Run On Wood, Waste
From the first time he saw Emmett “Doc” Brown fire up the Mr. Fusion home energy reactor in the “Back to the Future” movies, Dave Nichols has always wanted to make a vehicle run on garbage.
Two decades after the trilogy, the 42-year-old home builder and auto shop owner [...]
Posted in Opinion, Tech Stuff, Tools on May 18th, 2009 No Comments »
For Wired, a Revival Lacks Ads
The magazine was started in 1993 to herald the digital revolution, and, caught up in dot-com frenzy, Condé Nast bought it in 1998 (though, perhaps missing the point, the company neglected to buy the Web site for another eight years). Mr. Anderson, who took over in 2001, expanded Wired’s coverage [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Tools, Travel on May 7th, 2009 4 Comments »
Wi-Fi to Go, No Cafe Needed
But imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go?
Incredibly, there [...]
Posted in Photo Printing, Tools, Video on Apr 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
These days it’s becoming popular to do photographic printing on canvas and mount the canvas (stretch it) like a painting. This is a demo of a kit which makes this process near painless. I wish the sound was better but it’s worth putting up with as the demo is first rate.
[via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tools on Mar 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education
This list is a useful starting place. Maybe this year I’ll learn Spanish (don’t hold your breath) and if I do, it will no doubt be resources like these that get me there.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Tools on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Scenes from 30,000 meters above
On February 28th, a team of four Spanish teenage students and their instructor from IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia launched a weather probe they designed and built themselves. Their helium-filled balloon carried a payload of electronics and a camera to take atmospheric measurements and photographs throughout the trip. After getting [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Tools, iPhone on Mar 11th, 2009 No Comments »
iPhone finger sketches
Note both the Brushes application and the movies for each sketch. Fantastic stuff.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Objects, Tech Stuff, Tools on Mar 5th, 2009 No Comments »
The Bib Picture looks at Robots.
An incredible collection of robot prototypes and working robots. This was Flash Gordon stuff just a few years ago and now they’re starting to be integrated into everyday life.
Posted in Ideas, Reading, Tools on Feb 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Amazon lets publishers and writers disable Kindle 2’s read-aloud feature
Publishers and authors now have the power to silence the Kindle 2 e-book reader.
Amazon.com Inc. reversed course Friday on the device’s controversial text-to-speech feature, which reads digital books aloud in a robotic voice. The company gave rights holders the ability to disable the feature for individual [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, People, Tools on Feb 20th, 2009 No Comments »
From a Visionary English Physicist, Self-Adjusting Lenses for the Poor
The glasses work on the principle that the more liquid pumped into a thin sac in the plastic lenses, the stronger the correction.
Silver has attached plastic syringes filled with silicone oil on each bow of the glasses; the wearer adds or subtracts the clear liquid with [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Tools, Video on Feb 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Alex Lee at Gel 2008 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
Alex Lee is the head of Oxo, makers of well-designed tools for home use. No doubt you have some Oxo stuff in your house and you may be a fan. Alex talks about universal design and shares anecdotes about how some of their inventors outside the [...]
Posted in Objects, Tools on Feb 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Specialty Bottle
This is the best source for jars, bottles, tins, droppers and small glass and tin containers of all kinds. Their online catalog is incredible. Their prices are fantastic.
And, yes, I both love these containers to store things in and to photograph.
[via Cool Tools]
Posted in Ideas, Tools on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
John Siracusa on reading in the digital age
This is a fantastic article because it covers the entire history of e-books, both as content and as devices. Very well thought out and written.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Music, Tech Stuff, Tools on Dec 3rd, 2008 9 Comments »
Reclaim Media takes your old LPs and cassettes and turns them into CDs and/or MP3s. And, they do it cheaply and safely. $14.95 to turn a cassette into both an audio CD and an MP3 file (they split tracks).
Wow, what a great and useful service.
Posted in Ideas, Politics, Social Software, Tools on Nov 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Lose the BlackBerry? Yes He Can, Maybe
But before he arrives at the White House, he (Obama) will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. [...]
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