“Each egg’s display glows through its shell indicating the number of days remaining before the egg goes bad.” Of course, sawing the egg in half to implant the LED has gotta affect its shelf life. I sure hope this never happens in real life.
(Best before… via infosthetics)
not so random “timeout” link in a blog comment by Tony Hirst
He relates balancing rocks to mashups:
“When I play with mashups – when I play with ideas – I’m balancing logic rocks. Sometimes they fall over, but that’s okay; if I wanted to build something a little longer lasting, I’d use concrete…. we need to find ways of exploring how to doodle with new technology.”
Ok, I haven’t raved about my iPhone yet, because, aside from the awesome cinematic interface, my favorite feature has been that I can listen to my voice mail in any order with a graphical UI, which is, frankly, not so remarkable…. but today I read about a remarkable app from SnapTell which made me feel like I’m living in the future….
Alan Levine has detailed the SnapTell experience (via blog comment). With my iPhone I took a photo of 3 random books on my side table and they were quickly cataloged with wikipedia references and google searches.
This seems way cooler than QR tagging which seems to be popular in Japan. Why create a weird looking block code? Why not just snap a photo of a company logo or storefront to find a webpage?