TechnoloGEEZ…

Over the last year alone, posting on this very blog has been quite eye opening. One of my favorite experiences has been all of the various new types of technologies that have come out recently. Some of them made me scratch my head, some of them made me think, some of them solved my problems and some of them created new ones. One of the most intriguing of all of these posts, was the story of the “eyeborg.” This was basically a tiny camcorder, that was inserted into somebody’s eye! The long term hope being that it would become attached to a blind person’s brain to see. While the short term plan? Yup, to create a reality tv show.

Another interesting blog came with an editing system called “Tamper” being created by Oblong Industries, a software company that’s is trying to create an entirely new editing work flow and interface…. That is just well, remarkable to say the least. It involves users editing in a fashion more representative of something out of the movie Minority Report rather than a standard NLE. The company is the creator of what they have deemed “g-speak” which is a spatial operating environment, used for a computer program.

Other favorite blogs include the uber-futuristic “flying camera.“  By a company called Aeryon Labs which developed what looks to be the world’s first robotic remote controlled flying camera called a Aeryon Scout.
Also created more recently, was the Robocam Pro by inventor Christopher Robin Collins. Which is a robotic and lightweight crane, jib arm and motion control rig all in one. If the military gets first crack at it, then we get to buy it in 10 years has been my saying for years now. And Charlie Fulton’s post about “the cameras in our clothes” freaked me out, as well as had me thinking about what outfit would go best with a camera in it. The “two-way television” was just cool and Sony testing and bending new OLED tv screens really made me think about the days when we really could have watchable wall paper. Go through these, it’s going to make you techno-wacky and afterwards, you’ll feel smarter!