Some of the coolest things we saw:
- Shannon O'hare :: Extremely interesting guy working over at the Shipyard building a victorian styled moving house for the playa this year.
- Frogwatch :: http://www.nwf.org/frogwatchUSA/ Frogwatch USA is a frog and toad monitoring program that gives YOU the opportunity to help scientists conserve amphibians!
- Because we can :: http://becausewecan.org/ A couple located in Oakland who created a design and production company using an automated CNC fabrication techniques. You bring the ideas, and they'll produce them for you.
- IPswap :: Have an idea for improving your mp3 player, cellphone, pda, etc? Join this community. Post your idea, choose a developer, negotiate terms and make beautiful software together. They've got about 200 developers right now and virtually no community yet, but then, they've just begun.
- Blurb :: For $29.99, you can upload your pix and text and create a real book. The books i saw were very high quality. I met with Samuel Leshnick (sr. designer) who walked me through their process... they've just started off and they haven't released their first product yet (due out in may)
- Eccentric Genius :: Kaden of eccentric genius ...er he is the eccentric genius, describing himself as, "I build antiques from...er...somewhere else. A parallel universe where Leonardo Da Vinci, John Cleese and Jimmy Neutron spend every Tuesday night playing poker with Sherlock Holmes, and the Victorian era 'gentleman inventor' still toils diligently in his potting shed laboratory." He builds everyday modern things based on victorian technologies. Like a guilentine carrot chopper.
- Monome :: Honestly, i still am not sure i understand what this is all about. it seems to be another way to interface with a program.
- Alavs : Autonomous Light Air Vessels :: Through a defined research process we designed objects that behave and respond in specific ways and are part of a networked system that emphasizes autonomous and flocking behavior. There are two main components: feeding and flocking. Somehow this is connected to The Art Center in Pasadena, Ca.
- CalCars :: CalCars is a non-profit startup formed by entrepreneurs, engineers, environmentalists and consumers. Our projects tackle national security, jobs and global warming -- at the same time. We promote plug-in hybrids (PHEVs). PHEVs are like regular hybrids but with larger batteries and the ability to re-charge from a standard outlet (mostly at night). They're the best of both worlds: local travel is electric, yet the vehicle has unlimited gasoline range.
- Onomylabs Inc. :: They're building new ways to interact with visuals. With a table that can be spun, rotated, moved up and down allowing you to interact with the images on the table. This was interesting to a limited degree. I find that Reactrix makes a more interesting way to interact tangibly with images.
- Phill Ross : Artist :: The artworks he makes are created through the design and construction of controlled environmental spaces. In these environments he nurtures and transforms a variety of living species into sculptural artifacts, much as one might train the growth of a Bonsai tree. Wacky musrooms and biospheres in sealed glass.
- Technical Video Rental :: Rent movies on technical or artsy crafty stuff.
- http://www.jenine.net :: This woman makes insanely beautiful glass beads and then strings them into a very large neck piece! They're gorgeous.
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