Archive for January 2007
Ideas Park: Put my card entry system on my mobile phone
I have (again) in my wallet a nice lumpy card key (and of course separate picture ID) for entry to the Digital Hub. This is the latest in a long line of lumpy, (expensive, I’m sure) highly loosable ID cards I have carried in my life. Well surely its time to slap this kind of system on peoples mobile phones with a little Bluetooth magic to trigger the card.
I know mobile devices as a development platform are a nightmare, but so are bespoke card key solutions. The mobile vendors are starting to standardise (slowly), so maybe now is the right time…
With all this talk of iPhone
Here is a feature I want on my next phone; The ability to send it a secret ID via SMS that switches it from its current mode to normal (audible when ringing) mode. I’m sick of hunting for lost phones in silent mode.
Lego Exoforce Rocks!
Dig the heavy duty weaponry…
Lego Exoforce Rocks!
Dig the heavy duty weaponry…
Clay Shirky debunks HDTV
I love Clay Shirky’s writing and this short pithy article on HDTV is no different. Check this paragraph out,
This is the season of the HDTV gotcha. After Christmas, people are starting to understand that they didn’t buy a nicer TV, they bought only one part of a Total Controlled Content Delivery Package. Got an HDTV monitor and a new computer for Christmas? You might as well have gotten a Fabergé Egg and a framing hammer for all the useful ways you can combine the two presents.
PutPlace is raising a BES Round
PutPlace is raising a BES round. If you are interested in investing and have 31K + change to invest drop me a line. BES entitles you claim 40% of the investment back from the government as a tax break.
