What can you say when watching this? Amazing huh?

It brought me back to 2004 when I was in art school I was experimenting with accelerometers as a way to create digital music instruments. The idea was to attach those small as a coin devices to the body of a performer and have the signal used to control a sound synthesizer.

I don’t have any of the documentation of this, but want to share the impression I got from this work:  The tiny time delay it took from the time I made a movement and the time I heard the sound that was triggered by it was just like the time it took for my electric guitar to make a sound. That impact was felt the best when the movements were big body movements like lifting the arms and kicking with the legs.

It left me with that impact was because before I got into art school I was working on my professional jazz guitarist career, and as a guitarist, I was working very hard on precision of timing, and developing the skill to play a little bit before of a little bit after the beat. Mastering time stood for me as almost spiritual practice because you need to be fully ‘present’ in order to ‘play’ with time.

The second thing was The shapes- the signal the accelerometers I used was so precise and continuous, the sound it was making was very smooth comparing the typical more jagged sounds of MIDI controllers.

That left me very curious and I just realized that today these are still very fundamental parts of my practice - responsiveness, and movement memory.

loveallthis:

Go science:

A new material developed by scientists at UC Irvine is described as the “world’s lightest material,” so light it can perch atop a dandelion clock without disturbing the seeds.

from BoingBoing.

1. The Glorious thing iPad (Tweetie) revolutionized the app scene because it was the most significan discovery utility at those times.

2. Acquire unique user metrics.

3. They have been actively shaping and setting standards in the most advanced UX oriented environments by sharing open source projects for web, and mac, for example. So many developer are already using those tools for their own websites.

Jawbone is a cool startup with very impressive vision, some of the most prestigious smartest investors where Design and user experience is about user centric. And their products look fantastic!

But as I’m writing these line, frustrated users’ reality (count me as one of them) rather different. I’m on the verge of returning the Jambox I bough it two weeks ago. I’m giving it another week though.

Whatt up? Great product bad software!

With the new software update only one out of seven or eight attempts to get my Jambox to play properly.

After numerous trials, I figured out is that the only sure way to get it to work is to have it connected through the USB cable and playing from my computer.

This really defeats the Jambox purpose: a wireless, battery powered speaker that works with all your iDevices.

What I’m wondering is really, what is the reason for the colossal product failure? I guess that millions bough these device as xmas present this year.

Which leads me to why I am taking some more time before I’m returning the jambox home.

We Should be more forgiving when software bug arise on physical devices, because the device is good. If hardware is great, and the kernel is modular so everything is reversible, it’s a good purchase. Wait for the next update, what you lost is some of your time.

But here is my point - Actually it’s not a software issue, what this is, is a is a product failure.

1. You can’t ship bad software if you made the hardware. Ask apple.

2. If your previous versions is buggy, and current version is buggier, offer fast downgrade, fork the previous version and create a weakly incremental releases from is.

3. Even buggier current release is the universe way of saying: ‘You have too many features’.

socialflowteam:

A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden’s death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions, Retweets and conversations that would beat mainstream media as well as the White…

(via socialflowteam)

I’m going! 

(Taken with instagram)

“Among 50- to 64-year-olds, social-media usage grew by 88% from April 2009 to May 2010, up from 25% to 47% of all users in that age group, according to Pew Internet” 

From hufpost - “Boomers — Yes, Boomers — Spend the Most on Tech”

I think this only reassures the leadership of early adopters.

Side note: Only recently I started spending serious money on the internet, buying clothing, eBooks, music and movies.

I think it’s great!