Live from Etech: Yahoo Research launched the “Tech Buzz Game”. Aggregating over population weighted by performance, turning markets in to predictors. Artificial market on questions to emerging technology trends. You get $10k to start with, go try and own the market. It will be fun to see how search popularity may result in sale or lack of. I’m keeping an eye on podcasting at the moment.
Live from ETech: Rick Rashid, Microsoft Research talked about the Human black box, the ultimate blogging tool. A person mounted camera that takes thousands of photos throughout the day. A wide angle lenses captures more information, accelerometers tell the camera when it’s a good time to take a picture. Some uses: Memory-loss individuals, tourism, reflective practice…Kinda reminds me of the version I made for my car (and dog). I think we can all make our own versions of these.
The Science Channel here in the states runs a BBC show called “Rough Science” where they throw people on an island and have them complete tasks like building an AM Radio, a Camera, insect repellent as well as figuring out their coordinates, all using stuff they find on the island, mathematics and science. It reminds me of our MakeShift section of the Magazine, which has received some amazing responses so far! Keep them coming!
Amazon’s MAKE Magazine listing now includes a 5 minute sample of Make:Audio, our upcoming audio series. In this snippit Tim O’Reilly and Dale Dougherty talk about MAKE past, present and future. A little heads up, it’s a Real audio file, so if that isn’t your thing the full 32 minute interview will be posted here in MP3/OGG goodness on MakeZine.com in about a week as we kick off our Make:Audio series! Interview recored on an 3G iPod running Linux (Podzilla).
I’m on my way to Etech now. the Make team will be posting throughout the conference in addition to the usual Make stuff. Check back here for updates as well our Flickr group pool. Also, Be sure to check out the ongoing coverage here.Update: Go see the AttentionStream for almost realtime photos, posts and more.
Owen has put together a pretty amazing computer controlled sheet metal cutting system. The metal is cut using a 100 watt C02 laser, it took him two years to build. He’s only had it up and running for one week, this weekend was the first time he started making parts.
Via del.icio.us– Here’s a neat article about making a magnetic spice rack using a sheet of metal, magnets and watchmaker cases. I really like this since you can see the spices inside the cases and arrange them in all sorts of neat ways or even via recipes. I think I might make one for all the little screws, nuts and bolts I have and mount it to a huge wall, possibly adding a white board between the metal. Article here, photo here.
