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Julius’ Journal 6/4/’09: Hello New York!

julius published on June 4, 2009 in superforest journal. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

When I woke up yesterday morning the first thing I thought was: “Yay, I’m finally going to New York!”

About half a year ago SuperForester Jackson and I spoke and I told him I was interested in coming over to him, to New York. He said he was more than okay with that so the deal was done. Now, living the fourth of June I’m here sitting in his New York apartment behind an enormous computer screen which you can draw on.

Let’s start with yesterday. I got up early at 6:15 A.M. Dutch time (that’s European Central) and took a quick shower. A few hours later I jumped on the train to Amsterdam to catch my plane. I caught it, and I caught it well. Somewhere around 5 P.M. New Yorkish time I strolled out into the arrivals hall of terminal 4 where Jackson was waiting for me.

Today we had breakfast and did some work on the Jackpot, we bought some new tubing and tried to apply it but initially it didn’t work very well. After some tweaking we got it to work better. I really love the way Jackson used an air pump instead of a water pump since it’s so much more energy efficient. It uses just 3.5 watts. After messing with the Jackpot we went for a walk through town visiting Late Night & Weekends and a variety of art galleries.

Now while I’m writing this Jackson is enjoying a powernap and I’m looking like Tom Cruise in Minority Report sitting behind a huge drawing tablet. Yay!

Julius drawing tablet

Have a nice day!

Julius

Patty Maes’ Psychic Cellphone (and Other Sixth Sense Enabling Products We’ll All Have Any Second Now)

jackson published on March 11, 2009 in celebrity, technology and zeitgeist. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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Patty Maes and her team at MIT are developing a device that allows for seamless, real-world meta-data awareness. What does that mean? It means the information on the web becomes a part of your awareness as you walk through your life. No more strangers, no more unknown products or ideas, no more unknown anything… Existence will be searchable.

Watch:

This TED talk is amazing for many reasons, but one that may not be so apparent is the debt that this research owes to Johnny Lee, the inventor whose TED talk showed that this tech was in our grasp using nothing more than hack wii-motes.

Check it:

Ideas are flowing, SuperForesters! Let’s catch the wind and bottle it.

This goes beautifully with SuperForester Chris’s World Builder post.

So, now that information is everywhere and easily accessible, how are we going to deal with it as a society? Fun question.
Ten years or less and we’ll all have these devices and we’ll all “know” each other. And more than that, we’ll all “know” where all our friends are and what they’re doing, how they’re feeling.

Planet Earth is about to get pretty cramped. It is time to start playing nicely.

Love is an answer.

Love,

-Jackson

The Future Is Flexible

jordan published on October 4, 2008 in Uncategorized. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .


Remember those really amazing futuristic LCD screens in that Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise Film “Minority Report”?


Well that technology is here.

Apparently the military has had versions of this technology since the mid 90′s. Only now it’s gotten better, cheaper, and commercially viable. To the point where most everyone is familiar with (and uses it) on their ipods and iphones.

Now imagine your computers, your televisions, your every screen: flat, multi-touch, and FLEXIBLE!

This new Sony LCD may only be 2.5 inches, but it’s the just the first of the future wave. Because the best part of this tech is that it’s all organic, highly energy efficient, and will be cheaper to produce.  Big wins all around!

We at SuperForest loves this and can’t wait to blog from those future foldable computers of our own.  Now that’s men flying jetpacks, robots dancing, and bio screens just this week alone! What’s next? I’ve still got my fingers crossed for the Hoverboards from “Back to The Future”.
Any takers?