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Funny post about using fashion design as a device GUI
If you're new here, you may want to first register and subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We posted this back on our Facebook page back in January in response to our then-very popular climate dress article. Although our posting is intended to be funny, there is a serious point: perhaps we have a lot to learn from fashion design on how to make better GUIs for our electronic devices and gadgets. We did actually contact the designer, Diffus DK, as mentioned in the Facebook post, quoted below. We had a nice discussion about some of the other products they are working on, including some home furnishing designs and interfaces. (We probably should have posted here instead of on Facebook. As due to the “new” algorithms Facebook has been gradually rolling over the last few months, this blog gets much more readership than posting to Facebook page will. This has infuriated some marketers, who spent a great deal of money buying supposedly highly-targeted, highly-engaged Facebook likes from Facebook at cost typically of maybe $1-$2 or more.… Read the restReviews of our app, or working more with governments on air quality
It’s probably time to talk about our iOS mobile app again. Our recent articles on IBM Watson analytics and Google Glass generated a lot of interest with people contacting us privately to ask for advice on various start-up projects their working on. (Some more dubious then others — we’re going to an article talking generally about some of the worst mistakes we’re seeing on the start-up scene, so that readers can avoid them.) One comment we’re been getting is that we should doing more to get governments involved with our air quality app. So we decided to put some of the app reviewers from iOS on this blog (finally). The final commenter quoted below says he is a former environmental journalist, and points out that with our app you can monitor your own air quality, independent of government! He suspects not all governments will like this. We have a little anecdotal evidence he’s right.… Read the rest14 Surprising Ways Miley Cyrus is like SQL Server Hadoop Analytics
14 Ways Miley Cyrus is like SQL Server Hadoop Analytics?!?! Yup, you read that article title right. We’ve done past articles on how computers were now writing newspaper articles automatically. When we learned there was software to “auto-generate” blog content, we were exhilarated. We can just let software write this blog and hit the beach! Unfortunately, the software is only first-generation. It doesn’t actually write the blog article, just suggests a title. So, we asked this first-generation system for a computer-generated blog title for this article about Microsoft’s continuing embrace-and-extend gambit for generating Microsoft SQL Server licensing fees from Hadoop users. This is what the all-knowing automatic blog content generator came up with for a title. Apparently, the software has a thing for Miley Cyrus. You’re probably thinking, Miley Cyrus doesn’t seem to have a whole lot in common with SQL Server Hadoop Analytics. So… is it even possible for us or anyone to come up with … count ’em ….… Read the restWatson from IBM: Why semantic text tech helps analytics
IBM Watson: dramatic potential or nothing new? There is a new type of software technology from IBM and others that has the potential to dramatically change how we work. In particular, certain types of workplace drudgery may be eliminated. The key is intelligent processing of unstructured text. You might remember IBM’s Watson technology from a few year’s back. It’s a natural language Q&A system named after IBM’s founder (pictured). (We’re guessing it’s also an allusion to the Sherlock Holmes character.) As a publicity stunt, IBM had Watson beat the reigning Jeopardy! champion. At least based on the material on IBM’s website it still isn’t too clearly technically what IBM is. There are other impressive systems for searching and processing unstructured text and answering human-language questions. (We’ll talk about them in a bit.) Aside from some glossy marketing materials, IBM seems coy about why Watson is better or cheaper than the competition.… Read the restGoogle Glass: Confessions of a New Cyborg
Google Glass, Cyborgs, and the Singularity Does Google Glass turn you into an awesome Terminator-like Cyborg with a web browser inside of your brain? Or does it just frighten the horses? Will you become a so-called “Glasshole”? Is the software still limited and flawed? Or is the built-in Chrome browser all the Cyborg software you need? In this article, we take a look at some of the pluses and minuses of Glass. #Glass turns you into an awesome Cyborg with an in-brain browser? #throughglass Click To Tweet Frequent readers of this blog will note our fascination with theory of the Singularity, as exemplified in Ray Kurzweil’s series of books. (We’ll note that the forthcoming science-fiction movie Transcendence is one way the Singularity might play out. That is, if it actually happens in the first place.) At least two decades ago, Kurzweil and others predicted Google Glass (“special glasses” as Kurzweil called them) would hit the market right about now.… Read the restRecent Comments
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