Potential portables

John Simon found a portable baby sonogram. Freeing such cumbersome technology from a conventional CPU and hospital local opens up many novel uses. As technology becomes portable, interface should help guide it’s potential. It could be adapted to check seed content in watermelons while shopping, or used by plumbers to find clogs in a pipe, or by fishermen to know if their catch has roe and should be thrown back.
Rama Chorpash

Portable sonogram

My wife is pregnant and so we have a sonogram at our checkup every month. It is an amazing technology which made me wish I had it to play with. Why not compact the electronics and mass market the sonogram to plug into the PC? Something similar has been done years ago for microscopes.

Well, the web connected world moves faster than my imagination. No sooner had I wished it than I found this device made by a Chinese company…
John Simon Jr

Interactive table

The interactive table for the Walker Art Center. I just liked these girls and what they are saying, things like ‘This one reminds me of my aunt because that was a black cat really…..” and they are all chatting and putting icons together of paintings in the museum. So you’re seeing the machine and the social situation.
Marek Walczak