OK, OK. So I’m 29 days late in noticing the Guardian’s announcement that it is switching it’s format from broadsheet to Twitter but it’s amusing nonetheless and, even though as soon as I click ‘Publish’ this post will be syndicated to Twitter, it’s a reminder that in comparison to 188 years of print some of the current “can’t do without” web services really are just little toddlers.
What might happen if we were really connected all the time? Newspapers would actually have video in them, book reviews would appear on book covers as you pick them up and you could check the time just by tapping your fingers on your wrist. Or at least that’s the vision in this MIT demo.
Two things strike me about this excellent video from MIT. First, you can’t knock someone who’s prepared to walk around looking as ridiculous as the guy covered in all the gear. I’d do it in a flash if it were me. Second, I love seeing the incredible approach at MIT where so much stuff actually gets prototyped. Don’t bother pontificating about how it might work. Build a prototype and see how it might work.
Dolphins. Apparently the second most intelligent creatures on the planet. In an almost perfect animal therefore, where might you make improvements? Remove their restriction to water? Enable a few more sounds than just squeaks and clicks? Bring out a pink version? Style over function one might suggest.
This is a cute idea. FutureMe.org lets you enter the details of an email and have it delivered to yourself anytime up to 30 years from now. Tell yourself how you were feeling, remind yourself of [potentially unfulfilled] dreams or have a go at yourself for being an oldie! Shame it doesn’t work the other way round of course else I could have done that Back To The Future sports almanac trick. 
Amusing viral from the Labour Party featuring the WebCabinet (Shadow version).
Forget Smartphones. The Pomegranate has to be the first Geniusphone. Someone should have told them that they only have to include everything but the kitchen sink.
It’s been done before of course - taking a photo of yourself each day and then stringing them together to make a “me through the years” video clip - but the amazing thing about this one is that the guy started it in 1991. For a start that shows a major if somewhat worrying level of commitment. Furthermore, 1991 was well before the rotating still camera effect was hailed as the big new thing when the Wachowski brothers did it in The Matrix in 1999.
