Tag: South by Southwest Interactive

South by Southwest Trade Show 2016: robots, apps, future tools

The South by Southwest Trade Show 2016 brought a variety of tech services together with demos, short presentations, and lots of freebies. Participants included Knowbility, demos of Hatsune Miku, NoMaps, New Trackers, NASA, VR demos, Dell Healthive, Gaping Void, UT Health, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the U.S. Department of Transportation, Grindr, costumed vendors, and… Read More South by Southwest Trade Show 2016: robots, apps, future tools

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Where there’s a weirdo, there’s a way: why weird wins over vanilla every time

Michael Lazerow wants you to be weird. Because weird is good. He’s in the right place: he’s at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, in a vortex chock full of smart chocolate chip weirdos rolled up in a big all of marketer and VC goo. But even burnt — and we are all pretty burnt… Read More Where there’s a weirdo, there’s a way: why weird wins over vanilla every time

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Personal tracking with Ed Hunsinger: part big data, all man

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

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DIY comics artist Jody Culkin: Making and Drawing Comics in a Makers World

Jody Culkin, an artist who uses a variety of media, speaking at South by Southwest Interactive 2013 in Austin Texas. Lasersaurs, science geek comics, comic book how-to’s on lasers, creative uses of iPhone cameras, hacking, soldering, coloring books on electronics, rapid development of instructional manuals using photo-comics—Jody Culkin brought many graphic examples (pardon the art… Read More DIY comics artist Jody Culkin: Making and Drawing Comics in a Makers World

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How I learned to love supercolliders more than space travel and telescopes

UT Physics professor Dr. Steven Weinberg at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference “We need to fund supercolliders – and that is why I am here (at SXSWi),” said Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Steven Weinberg. And the South by Southwest Interactive audience applauded with enthusiasm. As much as SxSWi participants love the pursuit of space… Read More How I learned to love supercolliders more than space travel and telescopes

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Welcome to your new job: powerful individuals, disposable companies, disrupt traditional economic predictors

James McQuivey (VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research):Welcome to the new disruption. “Things started to speed up at the end…” — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Analyst, futurist, and author of Digital Disruption, James McQuivey, gave an example of how product cycles are speeding up: Apple took two years to sell the first two million… Read More Welcome to your new job: powerful individuals, disposable companies, disrupt traditional economic predictors

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One virtual singer, unlimited creators. Hatsune Miku: The open source girl who conquered the world

The Hatsune Miku demo booth at South by Southwest Interactive 2013. #sxswmiku The creators of Hatsune Miku, the virtual singer software, discussed how the vast collaborative effort that is expressed via Miku blurs the perceived boundaries between audience and star at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival 2013 in Austin, Texas. Miku is singing synthesizer… Read More One virtual singer, unlimited creators. Hatsune Miku: The open source girl who conquered the world

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Deep thinking with Nathan Martin, of Recode, Deeplocal

From the Deeplocal website. I thought I’d seen complex workflow charts working with engineering graduate students, but this kludge takes the prize. DEEPLOCAL Nathan Martin, owner of Deeplocal. Recode Recode.com was based on Priceline and was a punk trick. Copy subbar codes; change the bar code, and you can get your item at the price… Read More Deep thinking with Nathan Martin, of Recode, Deeplocal

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Hacking and tracking fingers, automobiles, with Daito Manabe and Kaoru Sugano

There was a point in time when I understood this. Now it remains as a mysterious poem. Poem Note Crypton CEO Hiroyuki Itoh (l) visited with technology artist Kaoru Sugano (r) and a member of Itoh’s Crypton Future Media team  (middle) representing Hatsune Miku at South by Southwest 2013. Somewhere, there is a picture but you… Read More Hacking and tracking fingers, automobiles, with Daito Manabe and Kaoru Sugano

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