MRo Blog » inspire http://blog.mro.name Marcus Rohrmoser mobile Software Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:32:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Psychologische Katalysatoren http://blog.mro.name/2009/06/psychologische-katalysatoren/ http://blog.mro.name/2009/06/psychologische-katalysatoren/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:55:24 +0000 mro http://blog.mro.name/?p=899

original Talk at TED

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Computers in Africa:

original Talk at TED

Africa in the Computer:

original Talk at TED

]]> http://blog.mro.name/2009/04/maybe-enough-africa-in-cellphones/feed/ 0 TED: Gehäkelte Korallen und hyperbolische Geometrie http://blog.mro.name/2009/04/ted-gehaekelte-korallen-und-hyperbolische-geometrie/ http://blog.mro.name/2009/04/ted-gehaekelte-korallen-und-hyperbolische-geometrie/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:37:07 +0000 mro http://blog.mro.name/?p=857 wirklich sehr abgefahren und nicht nur für Handarbeitsfreunde:


original Talk at TED

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original Talk at TED

War robots in use at present. Examples, attitudes and possible implications.

Quite an eye opener, quite TED.

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]]> http://blog.mro.name/2009/03/internet-in-dosen/feed/ 0 TED: Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth http://blog.mro.name/2008/12/ted-blaise-aguera-y-arcas-demos-photosynth/ http://blog.mro.name/2008/12/ted-blaise-aguera-y-arcas-demos-photosynth/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:01:56 +0000 mro http://blog.mro.name/?p=266

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth. The vision of automatic semantic correlation of images is stunning. And automatic 3d models – hu!

]]> http://blog.mro.name/2008/12/ted-blaise-aguera-y-arcas-demos-photosynth/feed/ 1 Tim Brown on creativity and play | Video on TED.com http://blog.mro.name/2008/11/tim-brown-on-creativity-and-play-video-on-tedcom/ http://blog.mro.name/2008/11/tim-brown-on-creativity-and-play-video-on-tedcom/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:15:48 +0000 mro http://blog.mro.name/?p=234 Share your wild ideas!

The Video on TED.com

  • Exploration – go for quantity
  • Building – think with your hands
  • Role play – act it out; have more empathy for the situation we design for and create experiences that are seamless and authentic

I wonder how this raw prototyping – getting an idea into the real world within minutes and play with it – can be taken to software creation. Turning a software system into role play? Sketching on paper and shuffling this sketches?

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See Iqbal Quadir’s talk at TED.com.


See Jan Chipchase’s talk at TED.com.

]]> http://blog.mro.name/2008/11/mobile-life/feed/ 0 Hello world! http://blog.mro.name/2008/09/hello-world/ http://blog.mro.name/2008/09/hello-world/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:59:24 +0000 mro http://blog.mro.name/?p=1 5000 Tage hatte das Internet weitgehend Ruhe vor mir. Die sind jetzt vorbei.

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