Category technology

These days technology makes the world go ’round these days, or so it seems.

Singulary Summit 2007 Speakers

The Singularity Summit was held last week and for those of us who were not able to attend there are podcasts available on the summit’s website. There is also a transcript of a particularly interesting talk presented by Jamais Cascio…

TeacherShare.org

TeacherShare is a proof-of-concept site where educators can share links and learning resources, similar to how social bookmarking services like del.icio.us function. While the learning repository concept isn’t new, this implementation as a collection of shared links has some interesting…

Exploring the World of Kaneva

Yesterday I met up with Rich Weil, Director of Community Relations for the World of Kaneva, for a guided tour. He was wonderful and showed me around while he talked a little about what is happening in Kaneva now, as well as what is ahead. Touring Kaneva What - Kaneva is an online virtual world (currently in live beta) where participants can create a free account and download client software to log into the world. It is not a game, it is a virtual, social world - like Second Life, Active Worlds or There.com. When you create an account a space on Kaneva's community web site is also created for you that operates similarly to MySpace. Where - My initial foray into Kaneva was unaccompanied and I missed a lot of what was happening - having no idea where to go. Upon logging in I found myself at the mall, the default location for everyone's first visit to the world. In the mall you can buy clothes, shoes, and a few other things to further customize your avatar. Things that you purchase are stored in your inventory until you are ready to use them. Although there are plenty of people who are happy to chat with you in the mall there are other places to visit too - this was the piece I was missing. Rich showed me how to search for hangouts and people and use the Travel button to get to places I find (like teleporting in SL). Now Kaneva was beginning to feel much larger...

New Rig

New! With more productivity packed in every byte. The new laptop is making the once painful tasks of building/texturing much easier. I’ll post more about the specs later, but right now am just amazed at all the things I wasn’t…

Sleeeep

A company named Zyren has an interesting "clock" that they are marketing as the sleep system Night Cove that controls the ambient light in your environment. As a huge fan of sleep I can only imagine the endless hours of well managed, scientifically crafted sleep it could provide - just the thing for the wonky winter nights in Alaska. Despite my torrid love affair with sleep I remember the days when I was a morning person and I miss them. [via]

More to Touch Means More to Love

Jeff Han and the Multi-Touch display get a lot of coverage and for good reason. The technology is a revolutionary way to interface with computers and strikes a particular chord with visually-oriented folks. The latest video is of a larger…