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Open Source Platform for Digital Art

April 13, 2010   Android PR   1 Comment

The decision to attend the light + building 2010 Fair in Frankfurt was an obvious one. The main goal wasn’t just to uncover emerging, new, innovative technologies in LED (light emitting diode) lighting or OLEDs (organic LED) but to see which companies were taking the obvious and merging or converging their technologies with others outside of their circle. Basically, I was looking for companies that hinted at concepts that involved mobile device displays and in particular concepts that started implementing plans for augmented reality apps. Sunday April 11 was the first day and I am happy to announce that my time and effort did not go in vain.

MOOD LIGHT – a concept launch of Traxon Technologies Ltd., a global leader in LED lighting systems with partner e: cue, a leading provider of quality control and automation solutions for the realization of sustainable, dynamic lighting solutions, was our gold mine.

MOOD LIGHT is a concept platform that allows artists to explore the digital medium even further by being given a technology canvas in which to create an “experienced art form”. No longer is art static on walls, but moving in patterns of colour intensity and shape, right before our senses. Artists, digital artists can integrate their work onto an open source art canvas that allows them to take their creativity to a whole other level.

“Digital Art is not just to be collected but experienced.”

Imagine having a display on your wall that transitions into various forms and colours, abstract or real, set to music and from a touch screen panel on the other side of the room, the visual can easily be changed, like switching from different songs on albums on a coverflow – literally.

Francesco Meneghini, famous artist, graphic and motion designer, had his work “We Were Apes” displayed at the MOOD LIGHT exhibit. This special project highlighted the creative possibilities for artists to showcase their work – digitally. You can view Meneghini’s current works on fra-me.

I’ll be covering more on MOOD LIGHT later on this week. For now, you can view the short video I took on light + building’s opening day:

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Education and gaming: Holistic Mobility Part 1

March 18, 2010   Android PR   No comments

If I were an educator or one that had a certain amount of influence as to where the future of education will lead (and at this point in time, the path seems really obvious – i.e. serious games platform), then I would gather up a team of android developers, creatives, a focus group that consists of the school age up to post graduate students, parents, government officials, representatives from industry sectors, parents, startups, artists/muscians, game developers .. and collaborate on ideas – just ideas, first.

And from this series of round table talks or brainstorming dialogue, the android developers would then get a base picture of what might need to be implemented for a series of edutainment courses, that all take place on a gaming platform.

The Android Platform is the most likely platform for the development of serious games on mobile devices, be it netbooks, smartphones, whatever. World systems are not stagnant (maybe some governments), and neither are its inhabitants (except for the niche non-ambitious folk, but perhaps, they too can be inspired!). We are moving towards a system of societies that are mobile, not just on one plane but holistically.

    “Holistic Mobility

the act of integrating and thus transitioning one’s daily thoughts and actions into a metamorphosis of new behaviour that involves a mobile device with internet connectivity.” – digitalfemme

Everyone, on some level wants to learn. Passively or agressively conscious of it, there will be a time when the opportunity for passive learning (which has been taking place on game platforms for decades), will be a brain faculty default. This will be more evident through the use of mobile devices. And the devices that run operating systems that offer flexibility and openess to new ideas, will be an important tool in the process of defining and refining Holistic Mobility.

Mindful Open Source projects will be the stepping stones that will help quide the transition into Holistic Mobility. The Open Source Community has been preparing for this, whether or not they realize their impact.

This IS the future of education. We ARE moving towards it. We may not be ready but our youth and the generation earlier – they expect this.

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Symbian Says, "Hello World!"

February 05, 2010   Android PR   No comments

2010 will mark the tipping point for Mobile Technology. Mobile operating systems have taken a large leap in defining an empowered future by abandoning the old ways of “what’s our’s is our’s and you can’t have any” to turning the other cheek and going “open source”.

Yesterday marked the entry of yet another big player, the world of the Symbian OS. Opening its doors to the developer world, the platform will surely be going over a radical make-over, even if it only involves the acquisition of “accessories” in terms of apps.

But what does this all mean? Why didn’t the Symbian Gods open their pearly gates earlier? Why now?

Did Android have something to do with influencing this “turn over a new leaf” or ?

Right before our social media consciousness, we are witnessing the future of mobile unfold into an exciting platform of possibilities. Where this will lead only time will tell.

One thing is for sure. If we’ve ever been really connected, we will be even more connected now, in ways that will make us think “Now, this is more like it.”

Never mind that Apple decided to call their new baby (the iPAD) a name which makes women cringe and “LOL” in such cynical ways. Never mind that Google is handing out FREE Nexus Ones to as many anxious and ambitious developers worldwide. Never mind the the Symbian OS has emerged from an obviously “productive” brain storming session .. the question is, “How will Microsoft’s new phone, fare when entering the game?”

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Fragmentation and the Essence of Android

December 07, 2009   Android PR   1 Comment

The discussions on Android’s fragmentation has not ceased nor do I think it will, any time soon. The year 2010 could very well see the negative predictions on Android’s fragmentation all unfold slowly, leaving heads to nod in quiet satisfaction (or not so quiet “I told you so” blog posts and articles) and also leaving Android Fans disgruntled. Or ?????

Let’s suppose (tongue in cheek) that just in the last 15 years alone and particularly in the last 5 years and even more so, the last year … new media and new technologies have been not only disrupting but forcing old “ruling class methods” to be faced with the challenge of a new and rising movement. The movement of “Freedom to choose what technology with what device with what platform in what method with what applications best suits  my individual lifestyle at any given moment”?  Open Source indeed! But Open Mindedness? Hmmmm….

Having an open mind is a good thing, but for corporates to be able to satisfy the “open mindedness” of their customers, let alone figure out a way to best capitalize on this “open mindedness” has left much to be desired by traditional business analyst “states of mind”, let alone acceptance into mainstream.

What if … we are heading towards a future where it is “not about the money”?

*gasp*

*faint*

*someone call 911 I’m having a heart attack kind of blog read*

What if  the Open Source movement (no doubt) is the trickle that started this change and what if Google’s Android has become a key catalyst to this future?

I read countless posts stating and hoping that Google gets behind Android with the same marketing passion and fervor that Steve Jobs does with Apple. But let’s take a few steps back and a few decades back.

Google is not Steve Jobs, nor is it Apple. Other than Tech, Silicon Valley, a really cool work place and bad asss software engineers, that’s pretty much what Apple and Google have in common (on an obvious, general scale).

Only until recently, when Steve Jobs introduced the iPod to the world (a great strategy in my opinion, in luring the non-apple people into the cult), did Apple start its mass / positive mainstream appeal.

Apple stands for innovation, design, high standards, perfectionism (pretty much the same personality as Jobs, huh?). Google on the other hand represents a “disruption to thinking how the world can be and how people can behave in the future”.

When Google entered the world, everyone knew we did not need another “Search Portal” We had Yahoo, Alta Vista, and whatever AOL offered its members. Now, Google is a verb.

Let’s say Google NEVER gets behind Android marketing. So …

Let’s even go on a bizarro mind trip and hypothetically put the idea out that Google may even come up with yet ANOTHER operating system!!

Why not?

Human:

“I may be black, I may be white. I may have blue eyes and blond hair or brown eyes and was born blind. I may have one leg. I may have only one kidney, but cut me open and I bleed red. My shit stinks, I fear pain, and I speak another language. But I bleed red. I am human. With all my differences .. I am like all of you that reads this. In all my seemingly, outwardly fragmented states, I AM human. Each and every human me contributes to a complicated inter-woven fabric called mankind. I am my own individual yet I belong to a collective consciousness. I AM still human.”

Android:

“I am fragmented. But my essence is Android. I will continue to empower. I will foster creativity in every individual or entity that takes me. I will foster the desire to think outside the box even more. Dare to change me for I AM Android!”

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