[personal rave & rants]
I’ve been traveling around for the last month or so and finally it came to an end. I’ve been in grenoble, Japan, Geneva, Zurich (okay – that’s home). I was supposed to blog for a while but kinda… forgot. Actually, I was busy with lots of things in particular I’m struggling with [...]
January 24, 2008 – 9:54 pm
I think I’ll start doing a weekly digest where I dump most cool/useful things I’ve seen this week, and that are somewhat relevant to my work / projects. In parallel, I’ll try to blog more in detail about some of the that are much more interesting to me.
BLOGS – Blag’s best blog picks from 2007. [...]
January 21, 2008 – 6:16 pm
I’ve recently stumbled upon a fantastic idea, actually, I literally fell off my chair. Some guys came up with a new way of using markers for textiles (wash at 60°, dry clean only, do not iron, etc), but instead of printing them, they used an RFID tag into it. The new idea is that rather [...]
January 13, 2008 – 5:18 pm
This is really funny! A new robot to help farmers has been developed (in Japan of course), and comes as an exoskeleton that you can wear and help you carry stuff. It reminds me when I was working with humanoid robots in Japan, in particular with the i-1 humanoid robot (formerly called DB), at ATR. [...]
January 4, 2008 – 5:42 pm
Finally it happened. And I think it was about time it happened! Gmail finally opened IMAP access to its mail server (okay may be already a while ago, but still I didn’t know), after billions of people (okay millions) kept crying, praying, chanting, and did hunger strikes (how do you say “grève de la faim” [...]
January 4, 2008 – 8:42 am
I just finished a workshop proposal for the LIFT conference in Geneva next February. It’s about lots of things. The “Internet of Things” to be more accurate.
A short summary of my workshop proposal, which is entitled “Upgrade your company – Industrial opportunities for the Internet of Things”:
Technologies that will form the future IoT will have [...]
January 3, 2008 – 8:10 pm
I finally decided that I should spend more time blogging, for several reasons (10 of them actually) I should write down here:
1) to keep me motivated to work and find cool topics to write about (I say that all the time, but this time is true)
2) to improve my written skills (yeah!! I really should)
3) [...]
Yesterday, I just got crazy and went ahead and bought the new book (almost 5 kg!) of Nobuyoshi Araki (荒木 経惟). A single word is needed: fantastic. This guy is maybe one of the most famous japanese photographer alive, and certainly my favourite. He published over 250 books, but this special edition is one of [...]
I started my “new life” two weeks ago. Not new, but kind of different from what I used to do before. I am starting my PhD at ETH Zurich with Prof. Friedemann Mattern, at the Institute for Pervasive Computing. In the meanwhile, my project (SOCRADES) will be done while working at SAP Research in Zurich. [...]
March 25, 2007 – 12:41 am
or should I say awesome food! Yesterday I went to Osaka, found a tiny, yet awesome, restaurant called “Shanghai Bar” (上海), because I wanted to try the local speciality called “supon” (スポン). It’s like a complete lunch made out of a complete turtle. It was sooooo goood! First you start with a shot of raw [...]
