Tag Archives: digital

A Beautiful Mess

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

This video shows an interesting new take on the standard Windows desktop management system.  While I’m not clammering to have this new system, I think how it uses grouping is quite inventive and has applications outside of the one shown … Continue reading →

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Sixth Sense

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

I’m glad to see there are some talented engineers working on this type of augmented reality technology.  I found an interesting blogpost about a real-time system that works with projected data (worn, along with a camera, on your hat).  Sixth … Continue reading →

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Augment Your Reality

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

See that little blurb up in the right corner on my banner–it says “Augmented Reality Explained”.  You might have been thinking, “WTF, mate.  I don’t even know what that is.”  In short, it’s adding virtual or digital graphics to real-time … Continue reading →

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TiVo Your Life

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Lately I’ve been finding many occasions where I wish I had a TiVo for my life.  Getting a call in the car while my favorite song is on.  Wanting to go back to what my wife said earlier in the … Continue reading →

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Why Digital Matters

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Why does digital matter?  I can download a song on iTunes or go pick up a CD at the local Best Buy.  It all ends up as music in my headphones.  It matters for the same reason that we’re in … Continue reading →

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Things with a Memory

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

I heard an interesting story on NPR this week about a man who’d lost his dog-tags in 1951, and a young couple recently found and returned them to him.  No one knew what happened to the tags between 1951 and … Continue reading →

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The Digital Green Movement

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

As I typed the title of the this post, I realized I’m really overdoing the word “digital”.  Can someone email me one hundred euphemisms for the word “digital”, so I don’t kill the word by post fifty.  Right. Moving on. … Continue reading →

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The Digital Sea

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

When I was a kid, I was a hardcore fantasy geek.  I’ve read most major fantasy franchises and I loved playing fantasy based games.  When I was in eighth grade at Catholic school, I started a Dungeons and Dragons club, … Continue reading →

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A Use for the Other 90%

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

It’s often been said that we humans only use 10% of our potential brain matter.  Somedays I think that estimate is a tad high.  During the development of the concept of my novel I wondered about the control systems for … Continue reading →

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A Digital World Awaits

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Everywhere we look, the processes and products that make up our lives are being turned digital.  The general medias that transfer information are slowly being absorbed by the digital mass called the internet.  The seemingly ubiqutious iPhone has opened up … Continue reading →

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