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May 17, 2010
Mobile tagging is awesome.
Culture, General
One thing you have got to love about Japan is the fact that the Japanese actually apply new technologies in real-life situations. Studying computer science I’ve seen tons of cool things which (sadly) never made it into the real-world.
Concentrating really hard, an old orange-juice commercial comes to mind. A guy walks into a grocery store and modifies the EAN code using a felt pen, forcing the register to display “I love you ♥” instead of just “0.39DM”, which of course makes the cute female teller fall madly in love with that guy.
Putting Romanticism and the fact that usually cool guys in leather jackets don’t know the EAN coding of uncommon ASCII characters aside, the cute cashier would of course never fall for something that involves things as uncool as EAN codes. Anyway, here, QR-codes are in heavy use. You whip out your phone, take a shot and are able to buy, browse, read-about, etc. whatever code your cellphone’s camera captured — a system called mobile tagging which is, to put it in just one word, awesome! You can encode virtually anything with these markers :)
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May 6, 2010
Wolfram, NKS and lot of books
Culture, General, ScienceCaused by an intensive (yet, sadly, fruitless) use of Wolfram|Alpha1 I recently came upon the strange phenomena duped NKS and its inventor2 and main proponent Stephen Wolfram. What a strange character.
(more…)- Tell me any other tool that can answer important questions like this? [↩]
- I’ve read several accusations of Stephen Wolfram stealing ideas; at least one can say he did not properly address previous work in that direction [↩]
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August 21, 2009
Today’s cool thing.
Culture, design
There’s no thing in existence that has helped the human race in its quest of procrastenating and delaying the more important things than the internet. Just now I stumbled upon the next cool thing! A japanese designer team took the world’s most important people from the pop-scene and the websites which produce most traffic and arranged them on a nifty looking map that resembles the Tokyo metro plan. In fact, I seem to live near DeviantArt and work (here’s the crux) at Microsoft… Well, it’s “only” art. However, here’s the map. -
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