by asli
14. April 2010 17:43
Innovators with Apple’s latest Innovation.
April 14, 2010, LEGO Kids Tech Challenge: Bilund, Denmark. This one day workshop harnessed inspiration and creative ways to come up with techniques to teach children through technology that hasn’t been invented yet. .
The keynote speaker, Peter Hesseldahl (journalist & writer) considers technology as not a separate field, but instead, considered technology as given background conditions that we must come to expect.
“Anything that wasn’t there when you were born is technology”
We cannot treat technology as a separate entity. He highlights some “background conditions” that we must come to expect in the future as ubiquitous. He couples each category with an example of a product or tool that is out there today.
| Background condition | Capabilities | Sample Tools sited by Peter | Microsoft Tools |
| social networks & mobility | follow people around | Google Latitude | Live Spaces |
| geo aware | scans geographic position – You can look through your camera at a location and see all the context dependent information connected to that location. He demonstrated using his iPhone. | Wikitude | Bing Maps with Photosynth - Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com |
| augmented reality | no matter what the object (car, person), it will have a separate virtual image in the cloud. The value of each will be indistinguishable. For example, you can configure your analog car through the virtual car. The digital cloud connects these objects in continued integration. | spimes | |
| machine intelligence | smart adaptive. iPhoto can pattern recognize faces and find additional photos of that person. | Google Translate, iPhoto | Bing Translate |
| biotech | Event: MIT’s Synthetic biology undergraduate jamboree 2010. With 1800 participants, students create building block of standard biology parts. | rainbow of pigmented bacteria. Banana and wintergreen bacteria | |
“Biotech will put together bio parts as you would LEGO to create predictable outcomes”
Software showcased at the Innovative LEGO Idea Conference
During the Innovation Lab workshop, we worked in teams taking an idea from concept to buy-in via online & socialization networks. Sadly none of the free software tools highlighted were from Microsoft. Here is a list of tools used to innovate, alongside their respective Microsoft equivalents.
| Tool | What it does | Microsoft Equivalent |
| Flavors.Me | quick easy website building with no skills needed | Web Platform Installer
Project Orchard |
| Tweetdeck | client side Twitter aggregator | none. (Microsoft Vine, Microsoft Mail) |
| dropbox.com | cloud based file sharing | Live Mesh, Office Live, Skydrive |
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