The Steve Jobs patents for consumer electronics. I’m sure many of us can go over this list and say, “I have that, got that, bought that, gave that as a present, got it, got it. Almost bought it…”
Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple yesterday, and one of the reasons we actually care is because he had a hand in so many major products that we use every day. Shan Carter and Alan McLean, for The New York Times, provide a breakdown of all 313 Apple patents that include Jobs in the group of inventors.
Want to set up a Science Hack Day in your city? Would you like to be flown to San Francisco’s Science Hack Day on November 12-13 to get inspired? As I posted last month, Institute for the Future (IFTF) and my colleague Ariel “Spacehack” Waldman received a grant for Science Hack Day enabling ten people from around the world to be flown to the San Francisco event. Deadline to apply is 8/31. Ariel says:
Science Hack Day is a 48-hour-all-night event that brings together designers, developers, scientists and other geeks in the same physical space for a brief but intense period of collaboration, hacking, and building ‘cool stuff’. They’re already beginning to pop up across the world in the coming months, from Dublin to Cape Town and a dozen cities in between.
…Think about it. When you go to visit a doctor each appointment starts with getting weighed, getting your blood pressure taken and checking your heartbeat. All of these sensors are now available (some in the Runkeeper store). I could essentially skip this step by printing out my own data or giving my doctor access to all of the data I’ve been collecting.
I know it seems like a stretch today, but this is the direction we are heading. Just in the last year we’ve seen a stunning array of new, cheap, passive senors…
What could seem more inaccessible, or in the exclusive domain of specialists, than space exploration?
What if a cube satellite were the price of an ipod?
We’re making this post the first one, because it contains the most fantastic, ridiculous example of the disruptivelyaccessible one can imagine, space exploration. In addition, this talk is the first place we heard the expression.
