Things I have been thinking about
- With a Kinect and a 3D printer you could effectively take a 3D snapshot of someone’s face and create a 3D print of it off right then and there. Would be a neat marketing trick for a booth at a conference or show or something, and would be very cheap. Instant bust, just add Microsoft and open-source.
- With a bunch of light-resistant diodes, a glass ball, and an Arduino, you could create a neat digital Campbell-Stokes recorder that’d give you some pretty interesting data (if you were anywhere but overcast England and were totally into sunlight-readings).
- Why is it that I can cancel my water, gas and electricity - physical services with all the problems that entails - damn near instantly, but my cellphone provider requires a month’s notice?
- Charlie Sheen jokes.
- I decided to tidy up Evernote and had to delete a note entitled ‘Present Ideas for {her}’, and how if I’d written it down in a notebook instead I’d have torn the page out, which might’ve been slightly more satisfying (or as much such an act could be), but really confirming the deletion just made me feel quite the same feelings, and maybe technology hasn’t changed the course of human events and interactions that much. Or at least, hasn’t changed the small, important ones.
- Where do I even buy steel-capped boots and what am I going to do with them after I’ve finished up in Iceland?
So these are the things I have been thinking about.
