An interesting article in Lifehacker about a fault with the Liquid Damage Identifier in Apple products which can give inaccurate results which means you could argue this is not a accurate indication of moisture damage.
I link this visualisation tool of Linkedin accounts however the colour separation is not really that clear to me:
I watched The Beautiful Truth documentary about Max Gerson and his alternative approach to cancer treatment. I got the pointer onto it from Glenn who is the cameraman on Diggnation. Anyway, there is a lot of interesting information in the documentary including some of Weston Price‘s research about nutritional impact. Also some interesting cases were highlighted around mercury fillings and there potential dangers. It is interesting if you combine this information with the Blue Zone work.Trailer for The Beautiful Truth:Blue
I came across this very cool variant of Tetris which replaces the blocks with European countries. I think this is a great learning tool and was impressed with Schmitz’s ability.
The man behind all the WiiMote hacks and then the Microsoft XBox Kinect is leaving Microsoft for Google on some special projects. More can be found at the Engadget article.
This is a nice example of Arduino and working with LED’s by Todd Moore
I know this is an old project however I have only just spent some time checking it out. It looks like the starting point for We Feel Fine and explores data in similar ways with specific focus on online dating. You can see a video of the project here.
Last week saw an announcement from UK retailer HMV (who sell CD’s, DVD’s, Blu-Ray, Books and other entertainment goodies) that they would be closing 60 stores over the UK. This was amongst profit warnings claiming that sales over christmas were down due to the snow and also competition from online suppliers such as Amazon and iTunes.The Telegraph ran the story which I am quoting from here:
- Tony Shiret, retail analyst at Credit Suisse, said: “You have got to distinguish between companies who can take this in their stride and those already structurally challenged where it doesn’t take a lot to knock them, especially if they are heavily dependent on Christmas.”
- It is not the snow that is causing HMV Group to close 60 stores across its HMV and Waterstones chains but heavy competition from online giants such as Amazon and iTunes as well as the supermarkets.
These analysts can talk all they like about competition from Amazon and iTunes however HMV is simply failing as a company, regardless of its market competition. Let me make the case here:
Here is a photo of some West Wing DVD’s on sale at HMV. Firstly there is the complete series on DVD for £59 (reduced from £200). Along side this is the 3rd season and the 7th season, both retailing at £60 each.Similarly The Wire DVD collections, firstly the complete series was available for £69 (reduced down from £100) and then season 5 (among others) was available for £53.These werent the only collections with this issue as I saw the same thing with 24, CSI and House and other major US TV shows.
Now the final bit of my story is the online story. The West Wing boxset on HMV.com is £94.99 (and £50 instore) but season 3 and 7 on DVD cost only £9.49 (both are £60 in store). It is fine to compare this with Amazon and you will find the complete series for £40.86 but both season 3 and 7 are identical with HMV at £9.49.To conclude, any store that sells an item at 6 times the cost of it elsewhere (including its very own online store) is pretty likely to struggle and it only has itself to blame, and to allow this farcical pricing policy to be exposed to customers who are becoming more and more price sensitive (with VAT increases) almost drives me to the conclusion that HMV want to get out of the physical retail business entirely.
Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo.
I just watched the documentary on Arduino (Micro Controller) which details the history of the project and the people who got it off the ground. It was interesting to see the figures of how many boards have been sold and the volume of traffic to the website. I think Arduino is more in the main stream then I originally thought. I have done a 2 day course with Tinker.it (now seems to link to the Arduino blog) which I found as a great intro, and here is one of the reactive interface experiments I did using processing and Arduino.
I tried Nullriver Connect360 yesterday to stream from my Mac to the XBox 360 and it worked a charm. I was surprised as I have a very convoluted network set up at home around the Mac Pro including a wifi bridge into ethernet which preforms poorly however the streaming over wifi worked great. I might even have to pay($20) for application as the down load is limited to 100 items – which is good enough!
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