Archive for the 'Random Ideas' Category

Wide Angle web cams
March 26, 2008

I searched for “wide angle web camera” for our display. Creative webcam ultra seems to be good. Many products do not specify the exact vertical and horizontal angels covered.

Creative Web cam. 200° horizontal and 105° vertical view. It costs $129. Product page.

www.bluetoothtracking.org
February 8, 2008

Netherlands based website (www.bluetoothtracking.org) is passively tracking BT devices in some areas and posting collected data in the site.
Description from the site itself “I then set up 5 locations with a little USB bluetooth stick in each location to collect data. There has to be an internet connection at those locations. Therefore I am using [...]

Fun quote on BT
January 31, 2008

Back in 2005, when a journalist asked Steve Jobs if iPod would support BT headphones, a part of his reply was that Bluetooth is a technology in search of a problem. The comment struck in my mind as “BT is a solution in search of a problem”. IMHO BT has failed to live up to [...]

Traits of a PD
January 31, 2008

Over the last couple of weeks I have been brainstorming different ideas for public display apps. I’ll put down some of the generic traits that were recurrent in my ideas. These ideas are also gleaned from the readings. None of the ideas are mutually exclusive, so many of the apps I imaged had a few [...]

Cell phone detector
January 25, 2008

Cell phone detector

Cell Busters – Cell phone detection and prevention. detectors, blockers and jammers
January 25, 2008

Cell Busters – Cell phone detection and prevention. detectors, blockers and jammers
I wonder if any of the old S60 phones can be reconfigured to do detection/location…