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Field lab in the desert

December 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

The Field Lab – Extremely Sustainable Homestead
Michael Janzen, tinyhousedesign.com

The Field Lab, also known as the Southwest Texas Alternative Energy And Sustainable Living Field Laboratory, is the 40-acre desert homestead of John Wells. John had been living in upstate New York for years but had a bit of…

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Reasons why I chose Caltech: research and…turtles! (caltech.typepad.com)

Memoto records every minute of your day

November 29, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Sustainable Design

A Wearable Camera To Record Every Single One Of Life’s Precious Moments
BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com

The Memoto is a “lifelogging camera” designed to capture and then re-stream everything that happens to you. Does this mean the end of memory as we know it?

The cyborgian future that awaits us is full of enhancements to the human form that we…

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Memoto, The Lifelogging Camera (drapersden.com)
Founders of Memoto wearable camera capture 10,000 pictures at SXSW (dpreview.com)
First Look at Photos Shot Using a Memoto Wearable Lifelogging Camera (petapixel.com)
Memoto lifelogging camera (ebiquity.umbc.edu)
This tiny wearable camera captures every second of your life (venturebeat.com)
SXSWi Day 3: Cory Booker, Memoto’s Lifelogging Camera and More (mashable.com)
Memoto Selected as Finalist for SXSW Accelerator Competition (paramuspost.com)

Ratings and reviews: the end of serendipity (and bad hotel rooms)

June 1, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Linguistic Search

An interesting article which points out some social downsides to the Internet including the fact that almost everything now comes with a sea of reviews and ratings making the act of discovering something entirely oneself a little more difficult.

Rate This Article: What’s Wrong with the Culture of Critique | Wired Magazine | Wired.com.