Tag Archives: Technology
U Swipe?
What happens behind the scenes when a merchant swipes your driver’s license? A performance piece involving an attractive bar packing a demographic cornocopia is one way to let people know. Check out the Swipe project!
$pam $olution?
A while ago I wrote briefly about monetizing spam. Esther Dyson wrote a year ago about a system called Vanquish, which combines challenge/response with the ability to fine commercial operators. Only catch: $40 a year (or 18mb, whichever comes first). Let’s leave aside that I go through 18mb of email in a busy afternoon. (Not […]
My little glovey dovey
Loyal readers may remember a post a couple months back about the use of a glove and hand positions to better (and more quickly) communicate with the computer (“Handy I/O”). I hand’t realized this was an active area of research. Jose Luis Hernandez-Rebollar at GWU presented the Accelleglove (pictured left above) at Siggraph last year […]
Microsoft (hardware) Rules!