Mike’s Digital Laboratory

My friend Brian (aka Charlie) Peterson is blogging while traveling in Singapore. Brian is an avid photographer and sends out an e-mail everyday with a new photo. I’ve been on his mailing list for years and it’s always a treat to open up the photo of the day.  Mostly the photos have been of local subjects (here in Rochester)  but lately Brian has been traveling and I’ve been enjoying a steady stream of images from France and elsewhere in Europe.  Now everyone can get a glimpse of Brian’s travels on his new blog.

Tag Everything

Last night I found myself at anther  Innovation Session at RIT This one was particularly wonderful.  Imagine getting to spend relaxing quality time with the next generation of inventors before they’re famous…

Last night’s Innovation Session in the Idea Factory was really perfect. We all paired up and brainstormed on wishes for the new year some pictured above. Then used our mobile phones to tag and upload our favorite wishes in to a flickr photo pool. We think this way of creating collective knowledge pools has mucho potential for all kinds of applications.

My dream project for the new year was “Tag Everything”.  and I mean everything, sheer madness but I think I know how to do this… If only I had more chewing gum and duct tape… hmmm..

I was also parteculrily taken with Jason Sauers prototype for a new adjustable table. Absolutely brilliant.  I want one.  It’ll go right next to the folding bed. (See the link in this post for picutres.)  Also not to miss is Dan Lampies wind turbine project.  Dan shared a very insightful tale of what happens when you try to put one of these up on a college campus.   Words of wisdom “don’t upset the aesthetics comittee.”

Just before the Thanksgiving Holiday I attended the first ever Semantic Mediawiki users group meeting. I was lucky enough to have some good friends provide me with a room and a bed to sleep in.  (Thanks Joe and Shari!) The trip was great and aside from the business at hand I enjoyed some excellent homemade pasta and a killer game game of Settlers of Catan .  However the most amazing thing of all was the bed they let me sleep in.  So remarkable is this bed that I was inspired to make this short video for you on my MacBook just as I was packing up to head home.