Anyone remember my brief musing on a satellite-free alternative to GPS a while back? Well, an interesting project by the name of Astrometry.net has come to my attention recently. They aim to develop a system that is able to take sky images with incomplete or entirely absent meta-data and use image analysis and a neat [...]
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As mentioned in an earlier post, I think that having some sort of personal inventory application would be the bee’s knees. One way to make such software more applicable to “real life” would be to introduce information feedback from offline purchases. Virtual receipts for real products.
This would be relevant any for purchase [...]
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Linguists have long since worked out smart ways to describe accents, dialects, and characteristic vocabularies, why not use some of that aggregated knowledge to build a robust word-flow-editing system for non-experts? There’s really only one major goal of flow-editing, and that is to improve the clarity and impact of communication. The advantages that [...]
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So, someone has taken the idea of communal activity as a means of productive energy derivation and made what appears to be a viable product out of it: the PlayPump. Kids play on a merry-go-round-like-thingie and the rotation of the playground equipment pumps water into a reservoir.
This more or less matches the notion discussed earlier [...]
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