April 2011
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First Impressions: Sifteo Cubes
The Sifteo cubes Early Access program is officially underway with approximately 1,000 participants. Having tested the cubes for a week now, I will share my first impressions of the platform.
Getting Started
Upon opening the cubes, it is good to charge them. A docking station is provided that fits up to six cubes, which slide in and nicely click into place. Once charged, the cubes can be connected...
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Urgent Evoke: A Crash Course in Changing the World
Urgent Evoke (www.urgentevoke.com) is a website that seeks to “help empower people all over the world to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems.” Evoke presents a ten-week course that helps users learn about pressing world problems, such as hunger, sustainable energy, and water shortage, amongst others. It was directed by Jane McGonigal, sponsored by the...
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Color for iPhone: The Greatest Revolution of All...
On March 24, 2011, the most revolutionary event in the history of all humankind, life and death on Earth took place: Color for iPhone was launched (Figure 1). The utterly useful and self-aggrandizing app that shows no modesty in parroting that it garnered $41 million dollars in idiot capital, of which $40.98 million was spent on the color.com domain name, has already made an irreversible impact on...
