Geek Scooter

Researching this kind of thing for Adventure Touring the American Southwest, and Technomadism and Transhuman Hacks of Metavlogging Phrashion have been decorating my plate as of late. via Make:.

IGargoyle Maker Faire Booth 5/08

Nym, Erin, & Ordaos; Telepresence Toy Phrasionasas

J9, futureboy, & RoBo; Metavlogging Phrashionasa

Brendan; Retro-Futuristic Post-Apocalyptic Phrasionasa

I can begin to imagine what the O'Reilly and Make/Craft blog/zine teams felt when an online community manifested in meat space. It was so great to meet some of you and send some of you here for the first time. It's so nice to transcend the screen.

What is Metavlogging & Phrashion?

Blog = Web + log
Vlog = Video + Blog
Metalog = log re: log
Metavlog = vlog re:log or log re:vlog or vlog re:vlog

Some elements represented by the Metavlogging: Video web Logging + mobile device video display mirroring + video screen capturing + Geo-tagging + metadata video frame imprinting. Metavlogging may incorporate media and synchronizable metadata logs. An application includes recording use-scenarios of ubiquitous computing interfaces in software and environmental contexts.

Phreak = Telephony + Hacker + Freak
Phrashion = Phreak + Wearable Technology
Phrashionasa = Phrasion + NASA + Fashionista

Quick W3rd2 re:Maker Faire

I want to just quickly thank Nym, Ordaos, Brandon, Erin, O'Reilly, the Makers, the people who waited on long lines, the staff, the volunteers, past, regular, and new readers/makers/interactors in spaces meat and otherwise.

Besides the obvious "inspirational", I'd more viscerally describe Maker Faire Spring 2008 as "heavy vibin' ".

I have been ruminating on this weekend's magic, but I first must hack my salvaged scooter into a water fountain outside my window before I can bear to type any more. That's what happens when Makers try to blog, and one reason I'm so interested in our theme of the weekend; "DIY Wearable Computing".

Wearable Art Challenge

The Call For Participation is here. Entry forms will be released in May on Disorient.com, are free, and due July 1. All entries can participate in a fashion show and compete for prizes at Disorient's pre-Burn Compressor annual. Deadline for entry forms is July 1st 2008. Light up our runway!

Wearaware and IGargoyle Do Maker Faire

Come meet Nym and I and bring your wearables! We're here to profile and promote the community's work on this site, so let's meet, get some media, and get it up here. Come out, come out, wherever you are!

I'll be exhibiting my latest in the Wearaware collection.

More roving telepresence hacks from the brothers!

More Soon!

Introducing: My Technomadism Hacks

I haven't been posting much, but I have been researching, developing, rapid prototyping, and hacking. I'm applying my love of desert camping, travel, wearable technology, and embedded computing to my urban flagship; a duosport motorcycle. Here's a first look:

solar-nav-storage:

This photo shows items I transformed into a top case and a tank bag.

BarCamp LA-5 is On and Open

http://barcamp.org/BarCampLA-5
Attendance cap has been decapitated, so come out if you're not quarantined by the LA Marathon.

Wearable Computing on BBTV on CNN

CNN has broadcast a segment on Boing Boing TV, which shows a clip from my segment as it mentions "a demonstration of wearable computers" as a primary example of BBTV content. Online video-on-demand can be viewed here. BBTV uses a still from the segment, shown above, to represent it on their BBTV In The News page and here too. This still is also an except from their segment about my wearable computing work. I am honored and it has got me thinking...

BBTV

I'm a Boing Boing TV Correspondent; here is the latest episode.



A Boing Boing TV episode introducing some of my wearable computing:
It's also a short segment, so I plan to publish more of my interview with Xeni Jardin later.
It will elaborate on my work.

iLimb Arm Unnaturally Powerful

Accompanying Touch Bionics' prosthetic finger and hand (shown above), comes the iLimb Arm. It's interesting to read how its superhuman capabilities may be intentionally scaled back before they will become available. Hacking the limb to its designed capabilities may become more akin to unlocking than overclocking.

link via Engadget

Programming DNA

Drew Endy presents on MIT's genetic reverse-engineering, developing a human-readable, high-level programming language, and leading a worldwide academic effort to develop open-source bio-objects. He proposes reprogramming bacterial DNA as one form of nano-engineering. Video documentation, found here, also covers a brief history of genetic decoding in terms of Accelerating Returns, safety protocols, and a speculative future of bio-hacking communities.

link via Hackaday

GIS Jacket with Flexible Display

Due out late next year is O'Neill Europe's jacket with some kind of integral, flexible display in the sleeve and audio in the hood. Using embedded GIS, they would provide navigation, weather, and friend-location information as well as spoken directions down a mountain.

Here, I will focus on two approaches to systems integration quoting this article.

1) "Aleks Ristic, VP Marketing of MyGuide is convinced that GPS will play an important role in future wearable technology. 'The partnership with O’Neill allows us to leverage our GPS know-how into new market segments. We with co-development of the NavJacket, we are expanding our product range from car navigation into outdoor usage, where navigation is just one application of our technology.'

2) "Using your mobile phone connected to the GPS unit, 3D views of the resorts as well as points of interest throughout the resort will also be available." Which mobile phones do they mean, and how do they propose to connect them? Does this mean that the phone display will be required for such views? GPS does not provide graphics, so the wireless services available at a resort may certainly differ from those available at more remote locations where personal, real-time navigation might be more appreciated.

Punk House 12/15 NYC

My man Flynn is doin' it agin!

Tissue Workshop update

Boing Boing TV covered the TC&A cloned tissue cultures at Machine Project.