Being a former DJ, I love the idea of this site: YourSpins.com lets you remix the tracks of existing music and post your "noob" creation on yourspins page, or on your own web page or blog - you can even download it as your ringtone. How does it work? A bunch of artists have allowed their ...
For those who know me - or have heard me speak - you know I'm very passionate about innovation and the patent process. Rarely do I talk about the bad side of patents(mostly because so many others do.) Here's the typical process... You get a nifty idea, and prototype it. Looks good to the company you're ...
For 175 years Hammacher Schlemmer has been selling unusual merchandise - typically cool but useless gifts. I occasionally look at their catalog and find myself acting like my kids... "I want that! I want that!! I want that!!! I want that!!!!" I've never been able to justify buying anything - and arguably this sort of consumerism ...
I've never been a big fan of speech recognition as a primary interface. No matter how good the technology, controlling machines by talking to them is awkward and time-consuming. You need a thousand words to describe a picture. I guess some angel investors wouldn't agree with me - Waterloo-based Voice Enabling Systems Technology (that's a mouthful) ...
Since he called me on it... :) Matt Roberts points us to the awesome industrial design of Lenovo's Torch for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. While I was on the Lenovo main page I noticed something odd: their list of hot support topics. Top three: Battery Recall, Windows Vista, Drivers. Exploding batteries - problem! Missing drivers - ...
Back in 2005, I was really happy to hear announcements such as this one about Hybrid Electric/Diesel Buses recently, we've purchased new buses here in Hull. Last night, I was driving along the highway when I was passed by a speeding Hybrid bus that must have been doing about 120 km/hr. It made wonder if the ...
On the web, you're never more than about two clicks away from anything and everything. You can't control who talks about you nor who links to your site. However, you can control who you link to, unless you use Google's AdSense or the equivalent. At SensoryMetrics, we've resisted the temptation to generate cash using this ...
the Worldwide Lexicon Project is up and running. Well at least they translated our tag line into french... Can someone figure out this thing??? [tags]Worldwide-Lexicon[/tags]
Being interested in all things Apollo; I was quite interested in testing out APOLLOGAMES.CA It sounded like a pretty cool game idea. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past the sign up using Safari. Flipped over to Firefox and all seemed to work fine. Apollo Games comes from Guelph Ontario. Our aim is to entertain and educate simultaneously, with ...
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