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Mark Newman’s, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan election maps based on population via Waxy. I suspect in 4 years we’ll see these on all the networks doing “live morphs” from geographic view to population view on a big touchscreen with a hologram operating it… Most of […]
Wow, here’s a giant widget that has… everything – I put it on the extra hacked up display here until I couldn’t take the info overload via RW.
Rooting the Googlephone round up… via HaD. What with its open source operating system and developer-friendly nature, cracking open phones running Google’s Android was always going to be easier than the full-on assault that was required to hack the iPhone, but we’re still impressed by the speed with which hackers have broken the T-Mobile G1. […]
It was just a matter of time… Physical keyboard for iPhone via CG. It gets better, the same maker seems to have a self-propelled iPhone “robot”… With an Arduino… trifecta of COOL OVERLOAD in play.
Android Proxy App – Use your Android G1 for net access via Lifehacker. I missed out on getting the iPhone app that does this before it was pulled from the store, bummer – but this is good news for g1 users!
Devon at NYCR writes – I recently updated my arduino ambient orb to use some boards I got cut at a boardhouse in Colorado, and handed off a few of the finished products off to various friends of mine. Well, my good friend John Erickson tossed together an awesome script for the election returns tonight. […]
Great round up of election day “mash ups” from Jason at hackszine…. Aside from the politics, opinions, and issues involved in this election, I’ve been really interested in how the current state of web technology, survey data, online conversation and public information would be merging together into web applications and utilities for the growing digital […]
