http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog what will happen when advances in the hardware and the business worlds will converge with technological literacy and new social conventions such as prosumption, participation, and personalization, in a generation that is younger than the Pentium, and was born texting. Tue, 20 May 2008 16:52:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “LG Display unveils the world’s largest 6-inch elliptical and 1.4-inch circular-shaped LCD displays. The 6-inch elliptical LCD measures 78.8 mm in height and is 131.4 mm wide, while the 1.4-inch circular LCD measures 35.5 mm in diameter. Both LCD displays are capable of displaying up to 262,000 colors and have ... http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=34 Rob Beschizza  of Wired's Gadget lab writes about OpenMoko, who first created an open source software platform for smartphones, , and now released CAD files that enable anyone who can modify them, to do so, and then mill their own phone on a 3D prototyping machine . Following Mark Weiser's vision of the disappearing ... http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=32 Mikey77 gives a step by step instructions for making flexible circuits using an inkjet printer: "Extremely flexible and nearly transparent circuits can be made using conductive fabrics. Here are some of the experiments I've done with conductive fabrics. They can be painted or drawn on with resist and then etched like a ... http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=29 Do you have this flower shaped board with built-in bluetooth module in other colors? How about the Paisley shaped one? Leah Buechley is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado and she's part of the Craft Technology Group. her research explores the intersection of computational and physical media, focusing on computational textiles ... http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=26 From Wiring's website: "Wiring is an open source programming environment and electronics i/o board for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media, teaching and learning computer programming and prototyping with electronics. It illustrates the concept of programming with electronics and the physical realm of hardware control which are necessary to explore physical ... http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=23 Tom Igoe is one of the gurus of physical computing. He published books about it - "Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers" in 2004, and "Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects " in 2007 - which are a good read and give very ... http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=21 From the SmartIts website: "The Smart-Its project is interested in a far-reaching vision of computation embedded in the world. In this vision, mundane everyday artefacts become augmented as soft media, able to enter into dynamic digital relationships. In our project, we approach this vision with development of "Smart-Its" - small-scale embedded devices ... http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=16 Still have to figure WordPress out before start writing real stuff... http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=14 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Upcycling is the use of waste materials to provide useful products. Ideally, it is a reinvestment in the environment and embodiment of the notion that while using resources one is also contributing to them and their value. This is antithesis of the consume and waste concept ... http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=15 | View | Upload your own http://www.ruthkikin.com/blog/?p=13