February 2012
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Can’t speak? Want to do stand up comedy? There’s... →
“Last night I did something I never ever ever thought I would do. I got up on stage and did a stand up comedy routine. Given that I have no speech, you can understand why I never thought that it would happen, even though I’ve always dreamed of doing it. I just thought it would be too difficult, that people wouldn’t understand me, that I would be silly to try. I clearly underestimated my own...
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Nokia Reading app demoed | WMPoweruser →
Nokia reading app - interesting feature “news feed” pulls content from websites, presents in readable format, if synced it is available offline (cached)… some similarities with the flipboard app for iOs which is a good thing, and the increasingly personalised view of the web and the content that you are interested in is clearly a popular trend. Books can also be purchased...
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The Scale of The Universe (Click for link) →
dachesterfrench:
This is really amazing. (via LB)
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Start Making →
Online learning community. I’ve requested an invite :)
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Bambuser - show the world →
Live video streaming from your mobile.
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OpenEars: a library for voice recognition for... →
“OpenEars is an open-source iOS library for implementing round-trip English language speech recognition and text-to-speech on the iPhone and iPad, which uses the CMU Pocketsphinx, CMU Flite, and MITLMlibraries. Highly-accurate large-vocabulary recognition (that is, trying to recognize any word the user speaks out of many thousands of known words) is not yet a reality for local in-app...
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WatchYour photos, your friends photos, all dated and visualised on a timeline - it’s a startup so no interface examples I could see but, it’s nice idea and the integration with your friends will be interesting to see.
Timelinks
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Jeff Wilcox – Jeff Wilcox’s “Metro” design guide... →
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“As Ubuntu expands onto new form factors, with an increasingly definitive visual...”
– Call for submissions for the Ubuntu sound theme!
The canonical design blog
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Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute →
Interesting article on the state of innovation today compared to the pre-google, innovative and ambitious world that launched human beings into space. Well worth a read. I thought this quote particularly interesting.
“…Most people who work in corporations or academia have witnessed something like the following: A number of engineers are sitting together in a room, bouncing ideas off...
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