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my Technomadic Hacks in Cyberpunk Non-Fiction; "C/Punk/Doc"

I met Laszlo Kovacs, Director of C/Punk/Doc through the amazing forums @ Cyberpunk Review. He invited me to submit media just as they were wrapping production, so we have a 1.5 minute segment on my Wearable and Nomadic Computing work that begins Act 2. Narration is by Hawk from American Gladiators, over the song Teenage Hitman by Encephalon. Thank you Wood, Keypixel, and my other fellow Cyberpunks.

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!

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...

Ghetto Institute of Technology

Open-courseware is awesome. RoBo and I are involved in this independently run, non accredited, geek collective class on "Information and Entropy" based off MIT's freshman level class. I <3 Los Angeles.

The class is invitation only, but you can email and request an invite. If you're in the area and interested in probability, errors, inference, and entropy, check out the site and give em a shout.

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Got a Roomba

While I imagine a lot of the igargoyle readers have already seen or bought a Roomba, I finally made the plunge. I don't expect I'll be a myroombud roomba cover or start hacking on my new slave robot, I am excited to have it join my family.

Janet asked me how much it costs. It was the Roomba Discovery, and it cost $280 after taxes. I didn't want to spend so much, but an ordinary vaccum costs about $200 and this thing actually takes a lot of the work out of the whole process. It also works pretty well on my carpet, and it's already cleaned all the floors in my house. It also has this spot feature to clean one area, and it does this great spiral pattern on the floor. When it runs out of juice, it goes back to it's charging station as well.

Maybe I'll get two and have them fight to the death. Mmm... Romba fight to the death.