Archive for August, 2009
AI Digest: 8/30/09. Virtual Mirror for Trying on Glasses.
Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: a virtual mirror for trying on glasses; the cultural branding of augmented reality; Singularity University completes first summer session.
AI Digest: 8/29/09. AI on the iPhone
Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: AI on the iPhone; mass producing tiny robots; augmented reality for driving directions.
AI Digest: 8/28/09. Augmented Reality Comes to the iPhone
Daily links in AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: augmented reality comes to the iPhone; robots may have a lighter touch than humans; CNet poll: what should robots never do.
AI Digest: 8/27/09. Lego Robot loves Sudoku.
Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: Lego robots like sudoku; new mass-market robot can cross to virtual worlds; Total Immersion’s take on augmented reality.
AI Digest: 8/2/09. Kissing Robots.
Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: kissing robots; better batteries, better bots; augmented reality traffic views.
AI Digest: 8/25/09. Multitasking Muddles Your Brain.
Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: Multitasking muddles the brain; five barriers to augmented reality; robots that mimic fish.
AI Digest: 8/24/09. Rehab Center for Internet Addiction
Daily links on AI, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: Rehab center for Internet Addiction; new augmented reality app; Jeff Bezos invest in augmented reality company.
AI Digest: 8/23/09. Robot Babies.
Daily links on I, IA and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: robot babies; robots for thyroid cancer patients; augmented reality comes to the iPhone.
AI Digest: 8/20/09. Top Augmented Reality Apps
Daily links on AI, IA, and the place where social tech meets the two. Today: top AR apps; robot whisperers; robot cats for the elderly.
How I Said No to Drugs, And Yes to Technology
Leaving the cozy comforts of the doctor’s office — with all its benign-yet-medieval contraptions — I realized that the prescription was an A through Z (or alpha through omega) of medical comforts. I wasn’t looking forward to it. For one thing, I wasn’t a drug person. Like many people of my generation, I had sampled recreational drugs — but less as a lifestyle choice, and more as a rite of passage to growing up. With the possible exception of alcohol, my body has never taken well to drugs. I suffered so much of my childhood with an unbelievably long hay-fever season — beginning early Spring, ending late Fall — because I hated the loopy feeling induced by antihistamines, and later, when the new class of hay-fever drugs came along, the jumpy mania of pseudoephedrine. The problem I had with drugs was as much physical as it was psychological. With drugs, I really didn’t feel like myself. Yes, it’s hard being me – there are easier jobs, I am sure — but I prefer it to the alternatives.
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