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March 07, 2003
wireless grazing
I met up with a number of people on Wednesday night, interested in collaborative mapping, geonotation, and hacking location generally - including Zool, Jerakeen, Yoz, Earle, Kake, Stefan, Tom, the headmap people... very interesting, and I'll probably write up more concrete thoughts later.
However, here's a few random ideas. Small ideabites:
- warchalking postcodes
- biofeedback sensor for iPods (true mood music)
A half-formed thought I'd been thinking of that came up:
The problem isn't networking (we've pretty much solved that with 802.11, Bluetooth, GPRS, 3G blah blah blah), it's power. True mobility requires wireless power. Something like a fuel cell is fine if human-attended, but for autonomous nodes you need them to graze on their environment.
My idea was inspired by the fog-catchers in Chile.
They take something that is needed, but in the wrong form (fog into drinking water). We live in a sea of wasted radiocommunications, from 50 Hz hum to the constant bathing in satellite downlinks. Let's take this energy and convert it to useful power. Basically a solar panel that works on all frequencies.
Someone else had heard of bioengineering trees to allow us to convert their photosynthesized energy into electrical power. That would rock.
...and in other news, I've got a P800, like Matt, and it's amazing. Of course, a company-paid GPRS account helps enourmously. Opera makes it even better. True mobile Internet. I'm now investigating auto-blogging, auto-photoposting, and even auto-GPSposting using it. I'm finding it quite hard to use one-handed. It's OK, but I find the jog dial to be a bit too stiff, especially to push in (and not push forwards/back).
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I love the idea of warchalking postcodes... something that me/sweeney(http://if.only.org)/matt webb talked a bit about... the firebadges on buildings, markers of territory and guilds in the city and other symbols for those in the know.
also - keep me up to date with the mophotoblog for p800 research!
Posted by: Matt at March 7, 2003 03:21 PM
fire hydrants.. something we have been looking at as a number of location markers that can be entered into an application...
let us know how the p800 shapes up, i am tempted because the 7650 just fails to integrate with my mac.
mark.
Posted by: mark simpkins at March 7, 2003 11:35 PM
get back to work!
Posted by: mick angel at March 11, 2003 05:23 PM
okay... so goodenuff solution right now is emailing the pic from p800 to http://www.fotopic.net upload email address.
not exactly oneclick, but avoids any nasty 'value-add' services from network providers... heheh
example here:
http://photoblog.blackbeltjones.com/photo.php?id=348282
Posted by: matt at March 12, 2003 11:37 AM
Consume is interesting, but caught up in lots of hand-rangling.
I'm really referring to warchalking for just the process of writing postcodes on things with chalk - not wi-fi access.
Interesting than Benugo has wi-fi - I wonder if their new branch north of Oxford Street has. Less comfy seats there tho'...
c.
Posted by: Chris at March 24, 2003 07:49 PM
