I was deliriously fortunate to have been invited to spend the weekend at Foo Camp a weekend ago and equally fortunate to have met a number of hardware makers and hackers including Nathan Siedel from Spark Fun and Colin Cross, engineer by day and open cell phone developer by night.

Perry and Andreas came up with this list in our new Collaborative Design Lab. Let’s just call it a to-do list.

We’ve just posted the 15 accepted papers for the Nordichi workshop on Near Field Interactions. More details at the workshop web page.

I spent a week or so wrangling some variations on the immersive viewer apparatus for the little research group at USC working on this project. Some of the “early” prototyping of the concept I had done last winter, described in this blog post.

Timo Arnall, Arie Altena and I will be participating in the Mediamatic workshop on RFID & The Internet of Things, September 11-13. It’ll be a mix of discussion, lectures and hands-on prototyping. Should be lots of fun!

The back story of the project tracks back to a conversation with Naimark. Working on the (wrong) impression that a stereo panorama could be created trivially, using two cameras on a rotating, panoramic rig, I was all set to make stereo QuicktimeVRs. Naimark pointed me to a research paper that indicated that such a c…

In the general category of breeching the berm between 1st Life & 2nd Life — you know, finding ways in which activities in the normal geophysical world can be linked to those in the digitally networked world, I’ve pulled together some thinking into a project that I’m calling Flavonoid. The general idea is to creat…

Will just created a Geotagthings feed for ISEA 2006, thank goodness. This’ll definitely help with figuring out what’s where..

Vince’s post pointed out that Digital Photography Review has release notes on this Sony dangly thing that uses GPS to record your location and precise time at that location. When you get home and want to correlate location with your photos, it’s a simple matter of time-synchronizing with the time stamp embedded in t…