{"id":432,"date":"2009-11-11T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2009-11-11T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:30:00","slug":"droid-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Droid Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I am Ready & Willing to offer my Services to any Nation or People under heave who are Desirous of Liberty & Equality”<\/p>\n

I now have a Droid, Google\/Motorola\/Verizon’s new PDA. First, it’s an excellent device– powerful and slick, lots of space, 5 MP camera, a touch-screen and a slide-out keyboard. To me though, it’s all pretty pointless. I don’t need it to organize any aspect of my life, I don’t want any more pervasive connectivity a cell and a laptop give me, and I don’t like playing with computers. I wouldn’t have gotten it if I hadn’t needed it for this project.<\/p>\n

I have 11 more days during which I can return it. But it is sweet-edge technology, and now I have all this knowledge of how to code the thing– why not use it?<\/p>\n

But I need your help! I’m looking for fun projects that can either (1) recoup some of this $70 a month I’m spending, or (2) help PDAers live greener. To that end, I have some ideas:<\/p>\n

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Greener, Every Day Calendar<\/b><\/dt>\n
This would be a free “page-a-day” style calendar, juxtaposing pretty pictures (e.g. of climate change) with steps you can take to lessen\/extend your impact. I hope to have connections to tons of non-profits soon through Democracy In Action, and they might have a lot to contribute.<\/p>\n

It will be both personalized and built on community-contributions. Anyone will be able to submit additional day-pages on the website, and at the bottom of each day will be rating buttons (“up-thumb” and “down-thumb”), which both inform your preferences and affect the likelihood of those pages for other people. Also, there will be a “I’m doing it!” button next to the thumb buttons, which both lets users see their strength in numbers, and allows some pages to be “follow-ups” on other pages (e.g., one page might suggest “Move to Washington, DC”, and if you do it, then you’ll get another one that says “Work for Democracy In Action”).<\/dd>\n

Open Artificial Intelligence<\/b><\/dt>\n
You can get a little chat A.I. that you can interact with, and teach, and watch it learn, and grow, and interact with your phone. I helped build a huge text-based A.I. for Virsona, and now I’m working on open-sourcing pieces of it. It can get responses from a dozen sources and learn in multiple ways, it understands grammar, emotion, the relationships between words, implied concepts and conversation trends. And now it’s built on a plugin design, where anyone can add new intelligence, new knowledge, and new ways of interacting. There would be free and paid-for versions of this.<\/dd>\n
Virtual Painter<\/b><\/dt>\n
Turn your PDA into a virtual paint-brush, and view your pieces of art through its lens. You can paint anything– a wall, a piece of furniture, a tree– by selecting a color and sweeping the PDA like a brush. Any time you look through the PDA’s camera, you can see your work of art. I might even make the paintings shareable, so that anyone who passes by the bus-stop that you graffitied can see it. A demo would be available for free, with a limited amount of paint.<\/dd>\n

I’m pretty excited about working on any of these, but I’m open to anything you’ve always wanted on your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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