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by ggdm 3y ago
I’m at the Wired 30th anniversary event as I type this and they didn’t have one at their Gadget Lab installation. I didn’t have one with me, sadly.
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by ggdm 3y ago
The TiVo slide remote was cool. Check WeakKnees or AVS forum for that release date. They will have anit announced or archived. Ours was topside/bottom side with no moving parts. It was flip-flop modality. The concept was “don’t look” o
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by ggdm 3y ago
We were a sign of the future of the web and where we sit today with smartphones and what is capable today. It’s a time capsule.
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by ggdm 3y ago
Considering Windows 95 didn’t have drivers sorted yet, especially true! Mainly we did it for Macintosh support.
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by ggdm 3y ago
Same thing they always do. Write letters. Crappy ones.
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by ggdm 3y ago
You’re my people. Well done! We created Make Magazine and Maker Faire to celebrate this good behavior!
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by ggdm 3y ago
The Web 1.0 world was different then. Wired and Forbes (our distribution partners) licensed our engine and mailed out Cats as a way to take their “lost” content like audio interviews and photos, aka too many to print, to live online forever
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by ggdm 3y ago
No, DLink made it for us, and you’re smart to want to use that remote to this day! Full QWERTY keys on the back and D pad on the front was our IP and another first for the industry. The box was running an Intel Atom CPU. Some devs and peopl
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by ggdm 3y ago
QR’s are an add-on for marketing or messaging vs our system which was already printed on the box! But it’s cool to see people scanning and the Cat now sits in the Computer History Museum… So it is cool to see it in the same section as my fi
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by ggdm 3y ago
It was the razor blade model. It cost us under $10 per unit to make and we charged licenses for content creators to make their physical world items tie into digital content to interact with the brand new web world of 2000. One may also call
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by ggdm 3y ago
The business model was to literally give them away. Whether humans wanted them or not, that’s another story. Thank you for your input.
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by ggdm 3y ago
It was a ROT encoder. Google that. So software “decode” vs hardware “hack.”
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by ggdm 3y ago
My mom is proud of you. She hangs them on her Christmas tree. #inventor’smoms
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by ggdm 3y ago
Bought wasn’t correct in that context as they were always free to the community and consumer. I agree with hare brained whole heartedly.
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by ggdm 3y ago
80% PS2. Rest were USB. A brand new technology.
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by ggdm 3y ago
One founder was a little off to say the least.
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by ggdm 3y ago
No. Screwed up by legal. Founders were super cool. Mostly.
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by ggdm 3y ago
That’s funny. Cue this.
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by ggdm 3y ago
Correct. That would remove our DMCA lightweight encryption. Well done hacker.
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by ggdm 3y ago
Yes. Boxes of them. I hacked it because I previously wrote for 2600, Google that. Later I helped write for Make Magazine… makezine.com
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by ggdm 3y ago
Cost reduction. We needed to make these for under $10 so we could give them away as part of our razor blade model. Google that-if you know, you know.
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by ggdm 3y ago
Co-founder. As typed above.
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by ggdm 3y ago
Co-Founder of the project here here. AMA @ggdm
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by ggdm 4y ago
>Cuecats were cool. The people who made them were assholes. Thanks @doctorow Look, we created it because barcodes had URLs below them on packaged goods that were generic. Google had a fresh “links in” algorithm that they were figuring ou
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See your friends' digital devices when they're close by(newaer.com)
1 points by ggdm 13y ago|0 comments
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by ggdm 13y ago
Isn't this for you to answer? NewAer builds "showcase apps" but the SDK is for all to build on. Our favorite is a menu on a tablet that knows what you ordered last time you visited the restaurant and suggests something new the 2nd visit.
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by ggdm 13y ago
Agreed. I've seen several demos of Gimbal and I fail to see how GPS and Google Goggles differs from this. GigaOm has a video demo: http://gigaom.com/2013/01/11/video-qualcomms-project-gimbal-...
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by ggdm 13y ago
Love the idea of the silent sound. Alas, that and the IP backgrounding is a bit clumsy. We pass through Apple's store guidelines without powering up the GPS.
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by ggdm 13y ago
Significant location change is clumsy to say the least. If you ask Siri to "remind you to get milk when you leave the house" you can see she sends messages at all different ranges of your leaving. Our engine monitors BTLE for disconnected
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by ggdm 13y ago
This is the concept for the engine, we are glad you "got it." Although you can add it into Tasker too. The bigger picture is that you do not need to be connected to the WiFi or BT radio to enable this.

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