Dozens of panels presented what was cutting edge in 2016. Companies including 6SensorLab, Admetsys, and Noninvasix. 6SensorLab described a device in development that could detect and report on the chemical composition of a sample of food called NIMA. Iskander Smit explained the research about the use of haptics placed on the human wrist. Body data… Read More South by Southwest 2016: Technology
Playing with your own big data: Ed Hunsinger at South by Southwest Interactive 2013. Ed Hunsinger: part man, part machine; does this equal…cyborg? Not quite. It’s all perfectly normal and you will see more and more 2000 Men and Women soon, tracking their bodies’ performances with data selfies, using such devices at FitBit,( http://www.fitbit.com/ ),… Read More Personal tracking with Ed Hunsinger: part big data, all man
Katie Covington presented on “For the Makers) at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin Texas DIY API open-source For Makers. #futureDIY Katie Covington quit her job and started Open Source For The Makers (http://www.opensourcemakerlabs.com/ ) where makers gave designs away for free. She explained how those interested in developing the project figured… Read More Katie Covington: Making fun with Open Source for Makers
What John Biehler said when he saw Pre Pettis and MakerBot on The Daily Show How 3D Printing Changed John Biegher’s Life John Biehler bought a 3D printer as soon as he saw one demonstrated on The Daily Show. He’s been experimenting with it and extending what can be done with it ever since. Biehler… Read More Shut up and take my money: John Biehler and 3D printing
College dropout whiz kid Connor Zwick. Hardware is the new software. Presenter at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin Texas. Hardware Kicks Software’s Butt at SxSW Interactive 2013 Conner Zwick has one word for you and the word is not plastic..it’s hardware. He dropped out of college, armed with the basic skills of… Read More Conner Zwick: sweating the small details for hardware innovations. Hardware Kicks Software’s Butt at SxSW Interactive 2013
“Craigslist” Craig Newmark, Poynter Kelly McBride on responsible journalism, at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive 2013 in Austin Texas “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh – or they may kill you – Oscar Wilde. (Quoted by Craig Newmark at SxSW interactive 2013) New standards of journalism in a new… Read More It’s alive! (responsible journalism). But newspapers are history.
Dr. Kevin Nowka at the AT&T Center at the Austin Forum. Dr. Kevin Nowka is cute. He’s a little nervous to leave his laptop in the AT&T conference room just to go out for a photo shoot. But when he stands in front of those pretty red flowers and start smiling into the sun for… Read More IBM researcher Kevin Nowka talks about the big, big data
whurley (William Hurley), co-founder, Chaotic Moon; Kevin Leahy, founder, Knowledge Advocate, LLC; and Russell Poldrack, PhD, director of the Imaging Research Center, UT Austin, discuss brain-altering software and human evolution at the Austin Forum in the fall of 2013. “Our brains: the organ pipes of the infinite” — William James, “The Knowing of Things Together” Three concepts; past.… Read More Brain hacking with the smartest guys in the room
South by Southwest Interactive (SxSW) 2013, a five-day free flight of imagination and creativity, just ended in downtown Austin, Texas. Each year, creative minds gather to share dreams and nightmares about technological changes, inventions, and twists in the road that takes the rest of us to the future. Who was the most interesting wise guy… Read More Change is as good as a holiday
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