This is the transcript to accompany a GIIDE post. I just spent a wonderfully fun, intelligent, scintillating, and completely engaging 5 days at MIT at the \”Reality Hack\” hackathon as a mentor, and judge. This is part 1, where I\’ll be talking about the experience and what happens in a hackathon like this. Part 2 …
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Note: this is the text from a Linkedin post I wrote, in response to a post by Cathy Hackl, She visited a concept store that features Alipay’s \”smile to pay\” facial recognition payment technology. Here\’s her video where she\’s discovering facial recognition payment systems in China. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6503651708290293760/ As I\’ve written about before, I have some very serious …
I think this is one of my favorite applications for 3d printing. Such excitement on their faces! Looking forward to the day when fanciful, colorful body enhancements don\’t even get a second glance.
This is neat. They are experimenting with a variety of cheap, commonly found materials to create 3d printed objects and structures. I know NASA was working on 3D printers that could use moondust as feedstock to print whatever they would need on visits to the moon (vs having to carry everything there) – love to …
For those who are curious…here\’s the full panel discussion exploring the future of VR and entertainment that I was a part of at Creative Tech Week 2017 back in June. Thank you to Isabel Walcott Draves and Cortney Harding for asking me to participate; it was great to be part of an event this forward thinking, …
I was lucky to attend Coburn Ventures\’ annual futures discussion conference last week, as a guest thought leader. An exceedingly interesting day with lots of fascinating people! It\’s a little bit like a reunion, as many return each year. I thoroughly enjoy catching up with everyone. It\’s interesting to me to see what topics (and …
Augmented Reality is projected to be a $120 billion market by 2020 in the US alone; I\’m looking at starting a company there next. Fascinating technology with a ton of potential applications, far beyond mere gaming. It\’s advantage is that it overlays digital onto the real world, vs having to be completely immersed in one …