First off, this isn’t a rant on wearables, more a explanation on why I don’t have one* You’d think I would, as every meeting with a tech agency requires at least someone to be smugly wearing a Jawbone (in much the way I cradled the first iPhone in 2007). They are ubiquitously male, slim, media-types. Oh hang on. […]
A bit of love for Open Data and Crowdsourcing
As we marketing agencies look towards maximising a Brands reach or just quantifying Justin Bieber’s latest snaffu through hashtags, there are agents among us seeking to make our lives better by the very same technologies. Nerds for Nature, are ‘bringing together technologists and environmental professionals to collaboratively build awesome tools to understand, protect, and revive […]
Expanding your Arduino YUN
Arduino recently released an upgrade to the YUNs firmware, as well as give tips on expanding the 8MB onboard flash memory to utilise an SD card. Sounds great doesn’t it? However, I hit a few snags along the way, and hopefully you can learn from my experiences.
Sit. Lie Down. Rollover. Play Dead
One of the stranger requests by my employer was this… ‘Can we make a taxidermied dog bark?’
Own Your Future
I’m now blogging for Jack Morton Worldwide, and my inaugural post went online last night. Much has been said about Google’s $3.2 Billion purchase of NEST, but I was more interested in how they paid for it with your data.