WIFI Photography

Long-exposure photography and a movable rod which displays the wifi signal strength. I'd love to see this ramped up to include other invisible radiation like cell and neutrinos.

Get your tin foil hats out.

Post-Information Society

Media companies becoming marketplaces for trust. As someone who's actively developing dynamic experiences based on user behavior and seeing just how many vendors are coming from the analytics angle, it will be interesting to see if/how profile development will begin to alter the content experience or if we'll continue to fed "news" and "entertainment" as we are now, which in some sense is un-checked SEO bait.

What does this mean for Charley Sheen?

Rageware

Rageware: Thinly disguised productivity software that crashes constantly with profane error messages.

I'm pretty sure there's not an app for this (yet) but it does seem like a killer "hide, the boss is coming" feature, especially when you're supposed to be working-from-home but spent the day smoking in you=r pajamas instead.

Augmenting Mario

It's been slow on the 2.l0l front these days, I'm not sure if the recession is causing everyone to focus on innovations that have immediate ROI or if I have just been sleeping on it.

Today's hacker news yields something fairly impressive, and definitely 2.l0l worthy, even if it is a hoax by a film student and not really software for a phone which with to augment my reality . To the creators credit, positioning this as an AR app, is a great way to exploit the hype.

The HN commentary is a little insider-y, but when the CD calls me and asks if the dev. team can build an iApp like this for a client, we'll know if has viral potential even as bologna. I think this makes a double negative actually: a virtual world projected into the real, but faked.

http://www.techi.com/2010/07/super-mario-bros-visualized-as-one-really-really-long-level/

Complete with "grainy film" effect for maximum irony.

The is no graffiti

...on the Sweedish subway system.



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Biker replaces lost finger with USB drive

"The drive isn't actually grafted to Jerry's bone or skin, but rather integrated into a removable synthetic prosthesis. "

Cute and easy biomechanics. seems like there could be some better body/machine integration here but this is kind of like Videodrome for the iPod generation.

Street View Hacks

A Pittsburgh neighborhood with advance knowledge of the Google Street View camera car. If only everyone knew when they were going to be recorded...