whats on your thing
that thing in your hand that tells you stuff
considering the mobile in art, culture, and technology.
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“We use cellphones to mediate they way others perceive us; if we’re texting or calling a friend, we appear sought after, occupied, in demand.
But the tragic, isolating thing is that we reach for our devices because we don’t want to seem lonely — which is causing us to avoid our peers and actually be lonely.
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No, I was getting the cold backpacked shoulder largely because everyone was on their iPod or cellphone, or at least pretending to be. The elderly use canes, the youth use phones.”
NYTimes: In Mobile Age, Sound Quality Steps Back
In Mobile Age, Sound Quality Steps Back With the ease of loading music onto an iPod, a generation of fans has been happily trading fidelity for portability. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/business/media/10audio.html
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The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. It was never okay.
Reblogged from Drive-by Blogging
I’d like you to meet the Teletouch, useful if you’d like to touch the same virtual screen as someone you connect to. Those dots are just like touching your friend. Or something.
Unfortunately you must pay for the privelege of touching your friend. The attached screenshot shows the free version where you can only touch with robots. (iTunes)
Google Invests in App that Predicts the Future
Soon to be released on the mobile for on the go predictions: http://mashable.com/2010/05/04/google-predicts-future/
Welcome to the Future by John Rust
“Ten years from now, there will be no need for a “real computer” as we know it now. Devices like the iPad will be capable of all the high-end tasks we now need fancy computers for, and I look forward to using a touch version of Final Cut Pro, despite the small screen of the iPad. The already-fast hardware of the iPad will only get faster, and will eventually match the capability of desktop computers.
This is the future.”
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Whats on your thing is all about mobile-technology flotsam, thoughts, and imagery. If you’ve got some, share it. THANKS!
‘Digital Lifestyle’ represented through dancing + touching dance-styles
Where my bitches at?
Tap-tap, Google map that ass
‘Dere’s an App fo dat.
