Projects I’ve informally worked on over the past few years. None are functioning services, some are just domain names and scribbled notes. As I put together these notes, realized they fall broadly into 3 categories; social, ecommerce and security. Why…
Category: whatifz
The Twidit App/Site Pitch
The Twidit Pitch: Lots of people poll twitter followers to answer questions/identify things/recall facts. Twidit will be an app/website to make this a little easier. By querying the user to identify the common information elements, things like ‘Where was it?’, ‘When…
Toss these technologies
Any avid ‘technophile’ knows it’s pretty easy thinking of reasons to get new gadgets. What about discarding technology, though? Looking through my hardware junk drawer, recently, however (junk room, actually), I realized a few of my devices have not only…
Wearable or Whereable?
Thinking about my own use of mobile technology, and where that interacts with new technology. Here are my initial observations. 1) I don’t remember to charge my devices. I barely remember to bring them. 2) Outside my house, 90% of…
Third-Person VR concept
My favorite mode in video games is not 1st person. I prefer a camera just behind and above, commonly referred to as a ‘third-person’ perspective. Could this be crafted for real world? I think the tools are available to do…
The Importance of 42
As any faithful fan of Douglas Adams must, I find myself waxing philosophical on the occasion of the commencement of my 42nd year upon this great blue mostly harmless marble known as Earth. Like some inane Bodhisattva or natty Newton beneath…
Sounds fishy to me, too.
A recently funded project on Kickstarter.com received $700,000 to produce an iOS controlled pan/tilt/zoom mount for an iOS device, presumably not the same iOS device you’re holding because that would be stupid lazy even for an iOS user (like myself).…
Car Pets
What if… you combined a pet rock with a cocker spaniel? You’d get a Car Pet. Ok, maybe you’d just get a cocker spaniel humping a small boulder… Maybe that’s why they’re called cocker spaniels? Did you think of that?…
Social Funding: Could it work?
Social Funding, the next installment of my continuing, though usually soon deleted series of blog posts called Whatifz. Background: Recently, I heard a radio interview with David Graeble, author of DEBT: The First 5000 Years. Here ->(http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-000-Years-ebook/dp/B00513DGIO/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2) is the Kindle Link, if…
Let’s Build a Better Poop App!
Forget about mousetraps. I want to build a better iPad Poop App. Why, you may ask? (And if you are my wife, you will not ask; You will simply roll your eyes and remind me to take the trash out.)…