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It's called mold making or casting. Pulling a thin flexible plastic over a mold is often done with vacuum forming. All can be done at home using conventional materials and equipment. This is a traditional craft and sculpture technique. I'v
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You could make a mold (the inverse or negative space of your form) using a 3D printing service, or carve it from styrofoam, or wood, or whatever, and then fill it with expanding foam or inflatable PVC by hand yourself. Cosplayers (hobbyists
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I ran fifteen design workshops in 2010, so feel free to ping me off HN if you have questions or need support. The HID protocol used by the USB version of the Neurosky Mindwave EEG headset is also undocumented AFAIK, and I could test drive
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There's not a lot of help out there for people who are willing to put the time and effort into protocol reversing but don't know where to start! EA put out a fitness video game with a wireless heart rate monitor that showed up as a normal H
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Thank you! Do I have to have read Foundation to understand it, or does it stand alone?
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While I'm sure there are lots of people who use geo-aware devices to improve their lives, being both a geographer by education and a UX designer by profession means I'm also sure lots of them would prefer to use a geo-aware device which tak
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Pedantry? No, geography. A traditional use of maps is for the living to draw the locations with emotional significance to the deceased (and then you'd post them in their tomb). Chinese and Japanese maps both were more concerned with poli
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Thanks for the detailed response! I think this is a great illustration of the privacy (and thus related legal) issues that simply aren't being addressed in the research and commercialization efforts thus far. We saw a little of this with I
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> Really? Entire continents? Nothing whatsoever? Not even a coastline? As I said, accuracy is context-dependent. Satellites in space can tell you that sacred temple moves every time it is rebuilt, but everyone on the ground will tell
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In the PDF deck I linked to about my work, I describe storytelling like this: Storytelling is sensemaking and placemaking of the: past (genealogy), present (diaries and journals) and future (personal [digital] archives). At PDA2012, there
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Yes! Great! I notice there's no X or Z in DEVONthink, but there is a V. I also notice the author of the custom software he used before that was Pinboard's Maciej Ceglowski. Fascinating!
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Why stop there? Instead of saying "until we [someone else] find a way to do that," why not explore what that would take? What does the research tell us about how we feel? How is that different across genders? Across personality types?
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As someone with a degree in geography, this is a bit hyperbolic, and a bit of a one-sided, urban, first world, view of cartography that might be nice for advertisers in big cities with pervasive 4G or wifi, but will also be ignored everywhe
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> using people's words against them is a problem with or without perfect recall Yes, it is! But one thing I've learned in managing online communities is that you don't give people the ability to do something you don't want them to do
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I call it "automated storytelling with post-hoc computational narratives." Old, big PDF: http://s3.amazonaws.com/vitorio/Automated%20Storytelling%20M... The thing about it is that I don't think the stories the software generates have to
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Oh, I'm sure I have it saved somewhere, but your point is apt: if all you remember is the general concept, but none of the key phrases used, nor a specific enough timeframe, when you've been saving things about wearable computing for fiftee
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SEEKING WORK remote or in Austin, TX I'm Vitorio, a skilled user experience and interaction designer in Austin, TX, specializing in web, mobile, and emerging technologies. If you think your current site and onboarding flow and app design
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And then he'll say, that's not what I meant, you're being pedantic, you're addressing individual points instead of the whole issue holistically. Or maybe it's a personal fight, and you're throwing his words back in his face, and now he re
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That'll leave you with tons of text with respect to what you said. Now integrate that with some kind of a keylogger on all your devices (like a computer, tablet, and phone) which can track states and applications. Also, by virtue of having
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I had forgotten about what ended up in his thesis. It's linked to from the Remembrance Agent site if anyone else is interested: http://www.bradleyrhodes.com/Papers/rhodes-phd-JITIR.pdf (PDF) "Implicit query" is another term for it. On t
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For what it's worth, there are many, many smartphone apps that enable this, both using augmented reality and not, and many other research-level prototypes in the literature. If you've never heard of any of them, perhaps that's because in pr
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The one place where this sort of thing could be a real plus is to help treat people with deficiencies in this area. Yes, some research shows that reviewing the things an Alzheimer's patient did that day, along with other pertinent facts,
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One way to combat a repressive copyright regime is to directly ask living authors to be reasonable. Authors know how much they're not making with their out-of-print, but still under-copyright, works. I did this this past year with publica
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Instead, the greatest value will be in second-generation applications that provide total recall and augmented cognition. Imagine being able to call up (and share) everything you have ever seen, or read the transcripts for every conversatio
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I should be clear: I've never used Snapchat, and I am not a 10th grader, and the world current 10th graders live in is not the world I grew up in. But I understand the problem it solves. I'm not "imagining" it's a viable solution for a hyp
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It sort of depends on what you think Snapchat does. If you think it's temporary photo sharing, who knows. If you think it's expiring content sharing, there's been imageboards and textboards forever. Given that Twitter "expires" conte
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Nope. Either way, speech synthesis isn't the hard part; having natural cadences and useful things being said is. The less your animatronic creature does, the greater you project your own emotions onto it, and more likely you are to find it
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Most of the projects in this vein are defunct, including the Tux Droid, the original Furby, the original Teddy Ruxpin, and the Nabaztag rabbit. I always felt the story of Felix Gallo's "Poppet" project at Data General was interesting: http
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I would encourage you to not think about things in terms of "imagine our (technological) world 5 years from now" and instead in terms of "imagine our (quality of life) world 5 years from now," because the issue for five years from now is th
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This is an interesting question, but I don't know how many file format neckbeards you're going to find on HN, it's an awfully young community. Maybe Stack Overflow? Maybe the File Formats wiki[1] will have links to format inventors? Mayb

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