Friday, August 02, 2002

SOFTPIT SEARCH ENGINE (free): Index every document on your hard drive [SHELL EXTENSION CITY] 7:38:15 PM    comment [] Mutant Music Toys The Music Toys designed by Tod Machover and his team at the MIT Media Lab for Toy Symphony "... are very sophisticated instruments designed simply to be played by any person with the desire to make music, with the specific needs and capabilities of young people in mind. ...  Through the use of Music Toys, children and adults alike can shape and modify musical lines with expressive gesture and delicate touch (Beatbugs, Shapers); use special software to draw lines that turn into musical compositions (HyperScore; and also learn about the Hyperviolin, the latest in a series of enhanced expert performance instruments devised by the team. Each toy has a very specific musical and pedagogical function." The daypop Link points to a Wired article about all this. Well, what are you waiting for. Go play with your toys!  Toying With Musical Instruments [Daypop Top 40] 7:35:00 PM    comment [] The Harrow Technology Report "Jeffrey Harrow keeps me on the bleeding edge. ... Read or listen to his bi-weekly report to appreciate not just edge of change, but its velocity and accelleration." [a klog apart] "For time-crunched folks like me, one of the coolest things about Jeffrey's site is that you can listen to his reports as MP3s, streaming or free download. Score!" [The Shifted Librarian] And what does Mr. Harrow have to say for himself? I've been saying for many years, that the only constant is change, yet with these changes come undreamed-of opportunities.  I'm excited about the incredible changes and opportunities that we have ahead of us, such as: How computing power is set to explode through advances in traditional semiconductor technology, molecular computing, quantum computing, DNA computing, and in ways we have yet to consider; How storage densities and fiber bandwidth are improving so fast that they leave the vaunted Moore's Law in the dust;  How nanotechnology is preparing the way to change the very nature of the "things" around us;  And many more. And most importantly, of what happens as all of these advances "come together," synergistically giving us far more than the "mere" sum of the parts.   7:23:41 PM    comment [] Henry Kissinger: "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 1:00:46 PM    comment []

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