Why is the mirror of the Google Glass inverted? ∞
These past days I have had the chance to play for the first time with the Google Glass from Silica Labs. This post is not about the experience, you can find about that online. What drove my interest is the hardware, in particular the eyepiece. If Google Glass is to become popularized, the eyepiece needs to be as small and invisible as possible. I´m pretty sure they have invested a lot of time on that. Upon close inspection I think they have decided to ship a first option, but they continue to work on that. Perhaps as an “innovation slack” to keep ahead of copycats, or because the main audience for now are developers to build apps for the consumer market later on. And developers don´t mind the geeky aspect that much.
[Idea] Apple patent to protect your phone screen ∞
How to avoid breaking your glass screen when you drop your phone? Phones fall down, and sometimes nothing happens and sometime the screen shatters. Can it be avoided? Making the glass thicker is a solution but increases the weight. I got an idea to fix that.
How a tweet led to a rocket factory ∞
This is the little story of how Foursquare and Twitter led to a VIP visit to Space X, the rocket factory, back in 2010.
Young Global Leader 2013 ∞
Today the World Economic Forum (WEF) announces this year awards of “Young Global Leaders” (YGL). I am one of them.
According to the website:
“Young Global Leaders represent the future of leadership, coming from all regions of the world and representing business, government, civil society, arts & culture, academia and media, as well as social entrepreneurs.
Nominated under 40, these young leaders are proposed through a qualified nomination process and assessed according to rigorous selection criteria accepting only the very best leaders who have already demonstrated their commitment to serving society at large."
Walking the talk in climate change ∞
“It is not about the Science, it is not about mitigation, it is not about projections… it´s about all of that, on top of the current adaptation gap”.
This is what I was thinking as I left the NAS/NASA workshop Walking the talk: Climate Science in Service to Resilient Federal Properties.
This workshop, incidentally, was canceled few hours short of its original date, October 31st, due to Sandy. On the second attempt, it was again almost cancelled, due to exceptional wind and rain conditions in DC. That pretty much summarizes my take-away from the meeting.