domingo, junio 12, 2011

Crazy Transforming Paper Thing [Video]

 
 

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Check out this awesome/crazy/fun trick on how you can turn a piece of regular paper into some kind of transforming paper toy.

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The Beer Can Robot [Video]

 
 

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Anchalee Saengtai uses scrap metal to build some pretty amazing Autobot sculptures. You can check some of her other work right here.

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sábado, junio 11, 2011

Big Ideas for Facebook Disaster Relief

 
 

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vía CrisisCommons de Heather Blanchard el 9/06/11

Hi everybody!

Just back from a great visit with our CrisisCamp friends in Europe and the first Missing Persons Data Summit with some super smart policy and technical folks. We hope to have some great "Road Journal" updates about our adventures and the great work of so many people who made it all possible. Be looking out for a few updates this weekend!

As soon as I returned we immediately dove into participating in Facebook's first Disaster Response Workgroup meeting that was held on Tuesday, June 7th at Facebook's new offices on F Street here in Washington DC. It was pretty cool to be connected via teleconference to folks also participating at Facebook's headquarter in Palo Alto.

The conversation was very lively all day from across most of the organizations who were participating, including some of our friends from the American Red Cross, FEMA, Ushahidi and California Emergency Management Agency. We all welcomed CNN in the room in the afternoon discussion and wrote a story today, "Facebook assembles group to plan for disasters."

As we like to do at CrisisCommons when we attend meetings we wanted to share what was happening. I tried to take notes the best that I could to capture the discussion within the group. There were many interesting discussions such as the use of verified accounts, the "organic" content vs. "official" content and the ability of response agencies to even reach Facebook (its blocked at many government agencies). There was also a great discussion about Facebook's own internal continuity measures with connecting to their own employees.

Throughout the day, Facebook often asked the group, "How can we help?" During the meeting I wrote up a list which I've expanded on a bit to share what might be helpful, or could be done. Lots of B-I-G ideas. You can always ask, right?

So here goes, some of my personal thoughts on what Facebook can do to help:

  • Explore the challenges of the Facebook algorithm which provides only a selected amount of content to the user. Often that content is based if there had be interest before. Facebook could explore how official crisis information could be seen 100%, not 20% of the time (based on the current Facebook algorithm) in Top News, even if the consumer has never visit the Page. How can there be options of text notification via mobile app during crisis events? What would this look like? For example, if I "like" San Francisco Emergency Management and they create a geolocated alert for my area because I'm in a Tsunami zone, how can Facebook make sure that I see that information, even if I don't normally visit that Page? How does that rise above everything else, especially if I don't pay attention to it all the time? How can a consumer create those settings in advance? Or even a search setting, if people are talking about "earthquake" in my location, how can I get a notification that is going on without looking into the mobile app?
  • Facebook could invest in a team dedicated on continuous improvement and engagement for humanitarian relief with both a domestic (to the country of presence) and international humanitarian relief. Ideally Facebook could a dedicated primary point of contact for this team.  The team could be coordinated as part of a corporate citizenship effort (not platform development) and participate in preparedness planning, exercises, trainings and events before crisis events. This team could recruit and manage a team of Facebook volunteers who could provide subject matter expertise, participate in hackathons with technology volunteers and support digital preparedness, response and recovery efforts.
  • Facebook could create an Facebook Digital Think Tank where researchers, technology volunteers and Facebook analysts could collaborate to utilize open data to contribute new understanding how people and organizations are using Facebook as a platform to inform how emergency management and humanitarian relief practitioners do their job. Facebook's Digital Think Tank could be multi-disciplinary (Technical, Policy, Consumer Behavior, ect)  and should include technology volunteers as well as academia. There could be an open source tool development with technology volunteers. Facebook and agencies could have a exchange , embed or loaned executive program where Facebook and an agency could swap employees to provide better understanding and and subject matter expertise on both sides.
  • Facebook could create a Facebook Crisis Landing Page, similar to Google (http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html), to direct people to official information. Facebook could ensure that local crisis information "comes to the top of any search" using search and pro-bono ad placement. In addition, crisis information results could be part of the consumer experience such as providing donated ad space directing consumers to official crisis information (or to the landing page) or by adding a "Recommendation box" in the upper right hand corner in geographic areas where a crisis has happened or as part of a ticker which launches the box when people search for crisis information. I even think it could be a super great idea to allow people to create their own crisis information links (and showcasing the official information as options for them to share).
  • Facebook could join the Missing Persons Community of Interest, like Google, in coordinating with response and relief agencies on missing persons data (both domestic and international). This is an open community with participants such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and Refugees United.
  • Facebook could be a significant partner in the 2011 National Preparedness Month effort to help their community understand how to use their platform, especially in case of an emergency. For example, Facebook could go through the Ready Rating program offered by the American Red Cross to make sure their employees and their families are prepared in case of a disaster.
  • Facebook could encourage families to be better prepared in their digital world by encouraging families to create Family groups or a Family Preparedness Facebook App which could be a game (ie. Farmville) to help families become better connected and better prepared in case they are disconnected from their digital devices. (Example – local rally location, memorization of key phone numbers)
  • Facebook could create a "verified" Page so that people can see that Page is part of official information. It is very confusing to citizens in the middle of a crisis when Pages are sprouting up which look official but aren't.
  • Facebook could create a sub-administrator function so that technology volunteers can help response agencies and nonprofits to manage comments/content. For example, people put their phone numbers on Page posts.
  • Facebook could create some kind of crisis information expiration notification to point the user back to current official information. Challenge is that people recycle old information. Someone says they need water and two weeks later people are giving them water. This is significant for not only action information like – evacuation notifications but of donation management. In Alabama there was significant duplication of efforts based on needs provided through social media. For example, we heard that 30 groups (some affiliated with the response, some faith-based an unaffiliated) took action and there was duplication. We are seeing this more and more.
  • Facebook could incorporate perspectives and use cases from the humanitarian relief ecosystem including emergency management and disaster relief practitioners in the initial concepting of platform developments not at the end.
  • Facebook could support education and training opportunities of emergency management practitioners across the word on how to use their platform.
  • Facebook could launch a significant consumer awareness campaign (in collaboration with privacy and emergency management practitioners) to show people how to use their platform to share that they are okay. For example, you need to turn on your geolocation, text to Facebook status feature.
  • Facebook could add features to its platform and encourage behavior of third party applications
    • Facebook Mobile App could have the ability to share posts or tag posts, videos or photographs of pages (only on the browser version).
    • Facebook Mobile App could have the ability "share with everyone" option so if someone is in a crisis and they want to share the picture with the world it can be tagged, shared and geolocated.
    • Facebook could have the ability to provide a Pages feature where unaffiliated groups can aggregate their pages together. For example, during a crisis you can have the Red Cross, local emergency management and other "affiliated pages" so citizens can work through the response information.
  • Facebook could  lead by example, provide a leadership role and expand their "digital celebrity" to support crisis events. For example, Facebook could use the World Economic Forum and other global engagement opportunities to explore how the technology sector who has made great effort to have consumers adopt technology tools to commit to consumer education to teach how to use Facebook in a crisis. This could also be done in collaboration with Internet providers, especially mobile carriers where connectivity, capacity and capability in crisis events can be a significant challenge.
  • Facebook could participate in existing crisis response, cybersecurity and other governmental workgroups which focus on providing the technology sector with information on potential challenges in cybersecurity as well as crisis response.

In thinking about what could others do…

  • Chief Information Officers (especially government at all levels) should remove "cybersecurity" blocks from social media tools from both their desktops and their mobile phones.
  • FEMA could  (1) establish a Technology Subcommittee under the National Advisory Council which can allow for companies like Facebook to engage with the agency, (2) create an office which could laision directly with companies like Facebook to incorporate the latest technology innovations and adoption use as well as coordinate response and recovery roles with the technology sector (3) revise national emergency management doctrine to reflect the massive adoption of technology by citizens and organizations and provide guidance and training for emergency management practitioners (4) create a technology embed program to show technology companies how crisis response is done and to exchange how the response authorities use (or don't use) these tools and platforms (5) request that technology use be captured by FEMA and its affiliated response agencies and organizations (internal and external) and (6) dedicate resources to increasing digital literacy of emergency management and its affiliated response communities (including Faith-Based, VOADs, and others)
  • Emergency management, telecommunications and technology trade associations could create committees to focus on the use of technology by their members and/or customers. These committees could work together to help drive consumer education and understanding and use of technology tools in crisis events at not only a policy and technical level, but also across their C-level leadership

Also during the meeting Facebook asked, "What needs to happen before a crisis?" Here are a few quick ideas:

  • What citizens could  do:
    • learn how to turn your geolocation on (if you want to be found) and know your privacy settings (and how to change them)
    • learn how to update your personal status to say "I'm okay" via a text message
    • "like" crisis information pages before a crisis (local emergency management, fire, ect)
    • create a family and neighborhood group, like local response agencies
  • Facebook could:
    • have a known crisis information landing page for events
    • laision to crisis organizations (ie. know where and who to get information from)
    • coordinate a Facebook Crisis Response Volunteer Team to provide assistance to response agencies or affiliated organizations who need help with the Facebook platform
    • provide exclusive beta test opportunities to "dogfood" or pilot  features with emergency management and technology volunteer communities, provide opportunities test a Facebook landing page, mobile apps, ect.
    • create a focus on digital preparedness – work with Zynga and other Facebook gaming app companies to encourage the gamification of digital family communications plans and other preparedness and mitigation efforts. develop cause marketing opportunities with their media partners – tie into vendors; retail, transmedia experience
    • use crisis events as teachable moments to help Facebook consumers know how to use the platform if they were in a crisis
    • could help people learn how to use Facebook before crisis events
    • could help emergency managers understand how to use Facebook to communicate with the public and for the public to share what they see as part of their situational awareness
    • involve emergency management in the development of future features of Facebook in the development stage rather than as an after thought vertical, they should be part of the enhancement opportunity of the utility of the product and how people can share when they are (or their friends/family) in a crisis situation
    • provide access to Facebook open data (firehouse of what people have shared with "everybody" designation) to the research community, especially when there are disasters (real-time research). we need to learn and continuously improve how emergency management uses these tools and to understand the rapid adoption behavior of people using the tools.
  • Technology volunteer developers
    • teach how to use Facebook API (and how it works with other systems, data feeds), provide developer expertise and leadership
    • teach how to pull data for agencies, nonprofits
  • Agencies could work – before the event – to:
    • establish a Facebook Page (and potentially groups)
    • training on how to use the Page, develop a unique voice
    • figure out a multi-agency approach/potential landing page (official information)
    • community engagement, promote citizens to "like" the page before a crisis if Facebook is their preferred challenge
    • Ensure updates if located outside of the emergency operations center
    • Set expectations of support and engagement before, during and after a crisis

We want to give a big thanks to Facebook for inviting us to participate! Often, technology volunteers aren't part of the conversation and we are very happy to be able to share our perspectives and really look forward to working with Facebook in the future.

Here's to big ideas!

Heather Blanchard (@poplifegirl)
Co Founder
CrisisCommons

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viernes, junio 03, 2011

A Toaster Made Of Toast

 
 

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vía Incredible Things de Mike Kurz el 3/06/11


Artists Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre, AKA FA+ set out to make a mural out of 2500 pieces of toast. While that's pretty incredible all on its own, it's not the sole reason we're talking [...]

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jueves, junio 02, 2011

Hostiator, el dispensador de hostias

 
 

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vía No puedo creer que lo hayan inventado... de El Caminante el 2/06/11


La falta de vocaciones en la iglesia católica es un problema importante. Sabemos que hay zonas de España en que un cura normalmente viejo, va recorriendo la comarca en un coche mucho mas viejo y dando misas a los viejos que todavía no han emigrado a las ciudades o al otro barrio. Tiene que dar cuatro o cinco misas en una mañana y no da a basto y como sabemos todos los que hemos ido a un colegio de curas , no hay nada mas peligroso que un cura estresado.

Para ayudar a este curilla, se ha creado Dispensador de hostias que nos permite repartir hostias con una agilidad que ya la quisieran los ninjas. Además de ser rápidos, seremos limpios y mas eficientes ya que según la publicidad podemos ahorrar hasta un 50% en tiempo y personal necesario para dar la comunión. Como el personal necesario es un cura por persona y no hacen medios curas supongo que se referirán a que puedes utilizar a un cura enano.

El dispensador parece una especie de jarra de cerveza y a pesar de que lleva una cruz grabada puede llevar a engaño, pero aprovechando la rica imaginería hispana si se le añadiese una cabeza quedaría mucho mas vistoso, pero me temo que esto ya lo han inventado los señores de los caramelos Pez, y como alguien dijo, "No eres verdaderamente famoso hasta que tienes unos caramelos pez con tu cabeza".


Un artículo de wired indica que hay una batalla legal por la patente y que hay un sistema de tambor de carga que permite repartir 400 hostias sin necesidad de recargar, como si fuese un revólver y que puede fácilmente dar la comunión a soldados en situaciones de combate o personas hospitalizadas, o sea que si pueden abrir la boca ya pueden utilizar el dispensador.

Asimismo nos indican que se ha mejorado el sabor y la textura, como si alguien fuese a misa por lo buenas que están las hostias, pero si esa persona existe seguro que tiene un paladar capaz de ser juez en un concurso de catadores de tofu o diferenciar los sabores de diferentes papeles de cocina.

También sería posible adoptar el dispensador para repartir las fichas del bingo de los domingos, aunque entonces el tema de la higiene pierde eficacia.

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LOL: When Life Gives you Lemons [Pic]

 
 

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vía Geeks are Sexy Technology News de Geeks are Sexy el 2/06/11

Cave Johnson, CEO of Aperture Science, has a lot of unhinged wisdom in that sideburned head of his. Hang this poster up to remind you not to let anyone, even life itself, kick you around. Red print on grungy, cracked-concrete looking background (reminiscent of Aperture's crumbling 1950s walls).

11×17″ poster, digitally printed on heavy, high-quality glossy cardstock. Looks gorgeous in a frame (not included) or hung on its own for maximum simplicity. Interested in another size? Convo us and we'll see what we can do for ya.

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The Evolution of DARPA’s Nano Air Vehicle

 
 

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vía Geeks are Sexy Technology News de Geeks are Sexy el 2/06/11

DARPA has recently released a video demonstrating the evolution of its hummingbird-like Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) from 2006 until now.

In 2005, DARPA announced the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program and its goal to develop agile and flyers system that could fit in one hand. This video chronicles the development of a "hummingbird" flyer by Aerovironment from concept to prototype demonstration and introduction to the public.

Next step, a similar vehicle as big as a common house fly, used to film your every move. Scary thought, isn't it?

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miércoles, junio 01, 2011

Geek Meditation Session [Cartoon]

 
 

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martes, mayo 31, 2011

Why You Should NEVER Text and Drive! [Video]

 
 

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vía Geeks are Sexy Technology News de Geeks are Sexy el 31/05/11

For those of you who occasionally text while driving, check out the following video for a very good reason why you shouldn't do it.

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lunes, mayo 30, 2011

AMAZING: Time-Lapse Video Shows Earth Rotating Instead of Stars

 
 

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vía Geeks are Sexy Technology News de Geeks are Sexy el 30/05/11

We've shown you plenty of time-lapse videos on [GAS] featuring stars as they move from one horizon to the other, but we're pretty sure you've never seen what we're about to show you, which highlights the "spinning" nature of our planet.

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domingo, mayo 29, 2011

Long Ago In A Soapbox Derby Far Far Away

 
 

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vía Incredible Things de Mike Kurz el 27/05/11


At one point or another in their young lives, most kids get the chance to race in a soapbox derby. Most of them don't get to have R2-D2 as a copilot though. This soapbox derby [...]

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jueves, mayo 26, 2011

La construcción del rascacielos ZeroZero en Barcelona, en time-lapse

 
 

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vía Fotografía Microsiervos de no-reply@microsiervos.com (Alvy) el 22/05/11

ZeroZero Timelapse, creado por MyLapse, muestra la construcción del nuevo rascacielos de Barcelona en 500.000 fotografías, tras más de de 600 horas «a pie de obra» con las cámaras y 400 horas de postproducción, que generaron un total de 2 terabytes de material gráfico.

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miércoles, mayo 25, 2011

FAIL: The Largest Domino Pyramid of All Time [VIDEO]

 
 

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vía Geeks are Sexy Technology News de Geeks are Sexy el 25/05/11

Youtube user Annodomino2007 spent 5 weeks building what he says was the biggest domino pyramid ever (with over 13,482 dominoes!), only to have his dream shattered at the last possible instant. Unfortunately, the remainder of the footage where the dude wrecks his whole house in rage wasn't caught on tape.

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vía Geeks are Sexy Technology News de Geeks are Sexy el 23/05/11

A pretty cool commercial for Calgary-based photographic retailer The Camera Store.

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Star Wars remake week: A New Hope (Lego Remake)

 
 

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vía Geeks are Sexy Technology News de JLister el 24/05/11

Today's Star Wars remake is an attempt to film the entire movie using Lego. Unfortunately it appears the artist only made it as far as the Cantina scene, after which only part of each scene have been completed and, as the site's last update was in 2008, it doesn't look hopeful that the project will come to fruition.

Still, the project does deserve added geek credit for placing the contact page link under an animated GIF of R2-D2 displaying Leia's message for Obi-Wan.

Hit the jump to see the remaining 11 clips.

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viernes, mayo 20, 2011

Amazing Facial Animation [Video]

 
 

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martes, mayo 17, 2011

Una foto al día, durante años

 
 

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vía Fotografía Microsiervos de no-reply@microsiervos.com (Alvy) el 15/05/11

Clickflashwhirr es el resultado de un proyecto personal clásico: un autorretrato diario, durante semanas, meses y años (unos 4 ó 5 en este caso) convenientemente montado con un poco de música de fondo (en este caso, The Annual New England Xylophone Symposium de DoKashiteru).

¿Cuáles son las complicaciones de un reto así?

Bonus: un clásico entre los clásicos, La flecha del Tiempo; la familia Goldberg fotografiada una vez al año, siempre el mismo día, desde 1976.

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