My life in the mumbo jumbo...
I'm a fuel infested mumbo jumbo tech tronik cluster wagon of mystical widgets and wonder science. I live on the far edges of reality dancing with blue avatars habbo hotel groupies and disco kats that can't speak straight... or at least that's what people tell me.
Currently I'm waging a mental war over visual and experience confirmation in a study. Half of the team wants to not reveal any magic unless its the real deal magic, which will take too long and will never be fully ready for the interview sessions. On my side of the room I want to reveal what the magic could be like to get folks into a better place to talk about the what ifs of its potential experience. And potentially isn't even accurate since the magic I present is tangible, doable and down right spiffy.. but its like not the legit real, actualy, official, thus approved magic that the said client would present. But without presenting the magic, I feel as if we'll get skewed data cause the folks won't be able to accurately fix in their minds just what is the so called magic that is planned for them in a future experience.
If you go too fast for people you're critized and often hunted down, boxed up and crippled by lack of vision, fear of change and social "wait a sec why didnt i think of that" culture. What's worse is that accepting that defeat on my own part is like hacking off my legs and restraining my very leap like movements.
Though they do say its important to fail in business ya know. Maybe its the way of communication that sucks. Or the audience isn't receptive to your techno babble.. its probably that really. It's too far ahead, it doesn't compute. Tone down, repackage it.
Well regardless.. let's move on since forward is far more attractive a place to be than backward.
Yesterday I was talking to my brother about getting and donating to charity the XO laptop that comes out in november. If you haven't heard about this project, the XO laptop is the result of the "one laptop per child" project started at MIT about 2 years ago. Its the result of challenge to produce an inexpensive laptop ($100, though it ended up costing $200) for third world countires, mainly targeted at kids.
Design wise this is product is packed with inspiration. It's waterpoof, dustproof, rugged, has built in wifi, webcam, microphone, mesh network (it can create its own network if it senses other XO's near it), can run on normal power - hand crank or solar power, battery
life is 6hrs normal 24hrs in ereader mode. Now it doesn't have a hard drive or disk drive, and the software is mostly leveraged web apps written in Python but its still pretty darn impressive.
Starting in november they have a program that will allow consumers in the industrialized world to buy one computer and have a second donated to a student in a developing country. It is "Give 1, Get 1", for $400. Bonus tax write off as well.
http://www.xogiving.org/
Tags: olpc, research, drama, video, nyt, davidpogue
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