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Can I get some peace on Earth with that?

Here is one of the creators of TweetMobile, Jorge Just demonstrating his mashup between the microblogging service Twitter, and actual physical objects. Here’s how TweetMobile works: if you tweet certain words, that causes mechanical birds to flap around in real life. Check the video to see TweetMobile in action.

Rotobooth Pic Originally uploaded by jonny goldstein Anybody there? This pic was taken at the Interactive Telecommunication Program (ITP) 2008 Winter show. ITP is a graduate program at NYU where people make cool interactive stuff. In the Rotobooth intallation, participants dialed a simulated old school wall-mounted rotary phone which triggered a camera to take a [...]

My friends over at Vision Education and Media have just written a book, The Young Inventors Project, on the use of Lego Mindstorms NXT in creative projects for Middle School kids. I spent a great year working at Vision and I know first hand that they do spectacular work in using Lego Mindstorms to help [...]

(Jonny Goldstein doing his Evard Munch impersonation at the Reichstag) I just got back from a brief trip to Germany to visit a relative. Look, I’m Jewish, so it’s no shock that the German brand does not resonate totally positively for me. I had a kind of multi-pronged discomfort with brand Germany that I have [...]