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Lab Lunch
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I brought a set of Pixelblocks for Professor Maeda's students to play with. Now we're having thai food lunch over conversation about new projects.
Blogdexing And Imagemapping
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Cameron Marlow is talking about the origin of
And Eric Blankenship is doing a quick demo of
Imagemaps location-based photo sharing system.
Aspects Of Affect
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Roz Picard demos a software Relational Agent that works as an online exercise advisor. Now Heather is here to take us to the next stop.
Tangible Interfaces
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Vincent Leclerc of the Tangible Media Group demonstrates an application of the sensetable (and 4 Zowie Playsets) to demonstrate airflow patterns projected around models of buildings.

- mike lee - canbridge, ma
Sensetable's Secret Sauce
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Starting our run through the lab ... Mark is explaining how the RFID-based Zowie Playset from 1999 is the hacked magic behind Audiopad and other sensetable-related projects. Professor Maeda found what is likely the last one of these toys by accident because he had a typo in a search query on eBay.

- mike lee - cambridge, ma
Cambridge Evening
this picture is owned by the submitter. contact submitter for permission before using it in any wayCo-worker Wayne, a Media Lab Virgin, and I had a mind expanding dinner with Chris Csikszentmihályi at the Blue

Room
tonight. Then, after walking Chris back to the lab, we took a taxi to Harvard Square to have a look around. Nothing going on...

- mike lee - cambridge, ma
Circling Providence
this picture is owned by the submitter. contact submitter for permission before using it in any wayBecause gusty winds have Boston's Logan operating with just a single runway, we orbited Providence a few times. The city was a quilt of orange points of light under a twilight sky.
Another Lab Run
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Leaving Reagan National Airport now for another run to the Media Lab.

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No So Bad Hard Goodbye
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In the last few days, Cianna has been starting to cry after us when we leave my mom's house to go to work. We might imagine that she has anxiety about us leaving, but maybe it's disapointment that we can't stay for a hard day's playing, eating and napping. We're disappointed too.

- mike lee - washington, dc
Versatile Bricks
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Interesting facts we learned yesterday morning:

Two eight-stud LEGO bricks (of the same color) can be combined in 24 different ways. Four eight-stud LEGO bricks can be combined 1,060 different ways. Six eight-stud LEGO bricks can be combined in 102,981,500 different ways.

[ Fact #87 here. ]

- mike lee - washington, dc
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