This afternoon, as part of our global management offsite
meeting, we had a series of talks from a crew of visiting inventors and
technologists, curated by DIY tech bible Make magazine.

Gene Cooper and Rich Gibson explained to us about Gigapans –
big pictures of small things.  

You
can see these amazing images at gigapan.org

Mitch Altman of cornfieldelectronics.com explained that he
is hacking the planet and that he loves his job. 

 


He invented TVbgone, a remote
with only one button – it turns off TVs in public. His TripGlasses flash lights on your eyelids that sync with your brainwaves and cause
hallucinations. This proved extremely popular with the W+K crowd.

Jeff Keyser of MightyOhm engineering showed us his retro
bluetooth headset.

As demonstrated by Kim:

Doctor Glowire and Louie Lights of Light'n Wire Productions dialed up the crazy with their demonstration of electro-luminescent wire
product Lightwire, which can be woven into clothing and products, making them
glow and flash. Their extravagantly illuminated headgear showed this in action.

 
 


These guys also tried out the Tripglasses. But I'm not sure they needed them.

Tito Jankowski of Pearl Biotech shared his open-source bio-hacking tools for the genetic explorer and Eri Gentry of BioCurious biocurious.org talked about her
community lab/hackerspace for people who want to explore DNA. Join the biotech
revolution and cure cancer from your garage!

 Garrett Mace of Macetech.com showed us some of his LED and tech products.

Here's ECD of W+K NY Jerome Austria, playing with one:

Ken Murphy showed us his Blinky Bugs, cute little critters that
respond to their environment, made from wire and flashing LED lights. 

He
originally made these things just to leave lying around in the wild to freak
people out. But now you can buy them.

He also showed us some very cool stuff he'd done with
timelapse photography.

Eddie Vromen showed us his affordable 3D printer.

This seems
like a totally amazing sci-fi gadget that will 'print' out 3D models of
objects. It also looks brilliantly reminiscent of Orac from Blake's 7.

Amazing stuff!

More to come later…