jasonw22's posterous

You’re in a good groove at work, feeling focused. Then all of a sudden....WHAM! Literally. As in George Michael screaming his heart out at top volume through the office speakers. There have been many attempts at trying to make office music a democracy, but most involve a complex system that people ignore, or people taking turns running the jukebox. LastFM and Pandora are great solutions (they learn from what you like/hate), but they both lack an easy and public way for everyone to have their say. Our solution? Love it, Hate it, just hit the pretty button on the wall.

"Packing all of your belongings into a U-Haul and then transporting them across several states is nearly as stressful and futile as trying to run away from lava in swim fins.

I know this because my boyfriend Duncan and I moved from Montana to Oregon last month. But as harrowing as the move was for us, it was nothing compared to the confusion and insecurity our two dogs had to endure. "

And a followup to An Awesome Book: The Awesome Book of Thanks: http://veryawesomeworld.com/awesomebookofthanks/inside.html

"Today we bring you Personal Factory 4 to make it even easier for you to buy, sell and make custom goods online, with or without design skills.

Personal Factory 4 is the world’s only personal making system to instantly price your custom projects using a combination of 2D and 3D digital making technologies and open-source electronics hardware.

With no setup fees and no minimum order sizes, you can now make custom electronic gadgets, homeware, fashion and furniture in the comfort of your home – and sell them to the world."

"We've all lost stuff in our couches: remotes, iPhones, keys. Daisuke Motogi's Lost in Sofa concept, which multiplies the number of places to lose things in a sofa by about a thousand, is either a godsend or a curse.

The idea is that instead of accidentally losing stuff in the cracks of your furniture cushions, you'll jam stuff in there on purpose so you don't lose it."

"Today in the Department of Kinect Hacks, we’ve got an official-looking hack showing off how you can use the Kinect (and its open-source drivers, of course) to turn any flat surface into a multi-touch trackpad or projected Surface.

It’s pretty straightforward, really. The Kinect looks at the scene in 3D, you establish a plane and boundaries for the interaction area, and boom, multi-touch."

"Featured in swiss architectural magazine Hochparterre’s “Raumtraum” section, these visualizations of future architectures search for the accidental in computer driven manufacturing processes.

Based on iconic housing shapes, these buildings were intended as prototypes for mass-customization. Yet, as things go with computerized manufacturing, there have been misplots. The cartridge was not loaded properly. The concrete was set to the wrong parameters or scale. The printer module falsely translated a data set…

These misprints are the rejects of this early process, and they are now being used as shared homes by elderly people from the former squatter scene."