“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Question: What do chameleons do? They do many things but the one thing they don’t do is change color to match their background. Chameleons do, however, change color in response to changes in light and temperature. They also change appearance when frightened or [...]
Unlearn It
March 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Video Killed the Video Star
March 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If a picture is worth a thousand words how much is a picture within a picture worth? That's the question every video provider should be asking itself because, like this famous picture from Pere Borrell del Caso, there is often more to a picture than meets the eye. Earlier today, I came across a new [...]
Unlearning the Computer Interface
December 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Microsoft has developed a cool new interface that allows consumers to control images on the front of the device (or phone) from the back. As devices get ever smaller, this seems like a natural evolution of where interface technology is headed. Will other device manufacturers be able to unlearn the current paradigm?
New Voice Recognition Technology Mandates Unlearning
November 18, 2008 By 1 Comment
Late yesterday, Google released a very cool new mobile application which employs voice recognition technology. The question is not so much what the technology can do today, the question is what will the technology be able to do in the near future—and how might it require professionals in the education, health care, and a host of other [...]
A Penny for Your Thoughts
September 23, 2008 By 1 Comment
Last week, a colleague of mine at Future Blogger, Alvis Brigis, suggested that the coming reign of online video broadcasting as the "most ubiquitous and accessible form of communication" may be short-lived. In its stead, he suggested that brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) may replaced it. To many people the idea of brain-to-computer or even brain-to-brain communication [...]
