e455 — Star Trek vs. Douglas Adams

the number 42 attached to a wall. Photo by Mark König on Unsplash

An episode focused on Science Fiction leading to Innovative Science Fact! Star Trek and Douglas Adams inspired technology, AI, games, XR and spatial computing. Glad to be of service! Continue reading

Episode 314 — William Shatner AI

Star Trek Enterprise street art

William Shatner AI, drinkable Peeps, tech old and new – boot from a vinyl disk & use LEGO Toy Pad as NFC reader, Douglas Adams, and dice to roll a 42. Continue reading

Episode 180 – Augmented Beer Goggles

 Jan 2008 Activeworlds video of Van Gogh mashup of multiple paintings Augmented reality is hitting the news every few moments, you can crack open a cold one and start seeing things.  Or you can try on a new hair color from the app by Modiface.  Of course, you can experiment with how you would look in a new pair of shades from Ray-Ban. For even more fun, the Art Gallery of Ontario uses the ReBlink app to have the people in the paintings take selfies of the art gallery patrons taking selfies of them.  This reminded Michael and Michael of … Continue reading

Episode 173 – Babel Fish

Computer to computer communications protocols used to start with a high pitched whine & crackle over a telephone line, using a modem – a modulator / demodulator – to establish a handshake.  Computer to computer interactions are nothing new — but AI to AI interfaces are becoming more and more common.  We discussed some of the ramifications in earlier episodes of the podcast — links below for those — and now we turn to how artificial intelligences create optimized methods of communication between themselves.  Like the Twitch example of two Google Home bots talking with one another, the first few … Continue reading