Nick Projects

I’ve been making a cool custom whiteboard for my home office,  but keep thinking.  I wish it was more simple to digitize what I write on the board.  Using evernote and a digital camera works well,  but its not the same as a digital surface.  I have been thinking about a children s toy called a magna doodle and wondering if there is any way to digitally manipulate or scan weather each cell is filled or unfilled in an efficient way.  If this were possible then it would be really simple to digitize large surfaces that don’t require superfine resolution.  I think of white boards,  classrooms,  architectural plans and things of that nature.

This video on How Stuff Works explains how the Magna Doodle operates,  it seems earily digital already:

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/howstuffworks/4658-how-magna-doodles-work-video.htm

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Feed My Inbox is a cool service that alows you to subscribe to blogs for email updates.  We have added their subscription box in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.  Another cool use I have discovered for their service is the ability to monitor craigslist categories via email.  This makes it easy to stay on top of all kinds of potential summer steals.  All you have to do is add the craigslist RSS URL to the feed my inbox page and your set.

Check out the video tutorial

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Key lemon is a cool free program that allows you to login to your computer using only a webcam.  The system is not the smartest facial recognition that I’ve ever seen,  you need to be in approximately the same position and angle when looking at your computer and also not drastically change your appearance with things like glasses being on or off.  However,  the system is free and is still quite good,  and darn impressive to see work.

Using a free system like keylemon with a cheap webcam proves one thing to me.  Facial recognition is amazing. People worry about rfid tags and implanted computer chips to confirm your identity.  Those thing will probably become irrelivant in the wake of a really powerful facial recognition systems.  Imagine if bestbuy could link your face to your credit card information and identify you from their security cameras everytime you entered the store.  They could record everything from the frequency of your visits and purchases to the types of things you like to look at when you are in the store.  The power of this technology for mareting entities everywhere could be truly amazing.  Unfortunately the annoyance to consumers could be equaly as intense.

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