Humans and cameras. The ultimate cyborgian relationship.
Machines helping humans to preserve memories. Humans helping choose settings that help a camera best represent reality. Beauty results when humans and machines operate in symbiotic harmony.
With that said, Mark Coleman is one of the most harmonious cyborgs I’ve encountered.
Mark is excited to help capture CyborgCamp on film, so [...]
One of the topics for the unconference part of CyborgCamp is exactaly this. Every year, we’re teased by science and technology magazines, advertisements, and news shows. They tell us that in a few years, we’ll all live forever, or that we’ll all have flying cars. But when has a sceintific or technological prediction actually come [...]
If you haven’t already, please purchase your ticket for CyborgCamp. This ticket covers food and lets us know you’ll be there.
It’s important that you register as early as possible, the ticket costs $10 person before Wednesday December 3rd, 2008, at Noon. If you register afterwards, the ticket before $20. The form is secure and accepts [...]
A lot of times we wait around for technology to just “appear” like we see in films. But if we continue to do that, nothing will get built. Thankfully, people are out there filling in the gaps.
Zigelbaum showed me what he was working on during the first night of MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 3. When [...]
CyborgCamp is gaining momentum as an intellectual, technical and exploratory event. Its existence is not limited to Portland area either.
Example: a fascinating individual flying out from New York to attend. Her name is Gennefer Snowfield and she was kind enough to answer some questions for us so that the Portland Tech community and [...]
What is PowerPoint Karaoke? It is an ironic mutation of Toastmasters, one of the original and most successful ways to have fun while overcoming the fear of public speaking. It basically entails giving a humorous PowerPoint presentation to random slides generated by someone else.
Process
Simply get a small group of people together and have everyone assemble [...]
Sometimes graphs are really fun to make. This one was especially fun and easy to make (read how to make your own below). It gives some info on topics that CyborgCamp may touches on.
To make this graph, I simply went to the ‘About Page’ of the CyborgCamp site and selected all of the text. Then [...]
Hideshi Hamguchi describes himself as a concept creator, strategist + designer who cannot draw pictures. But as a “self-proclaimed diagram-lover, Hamaguchi uses visual models to bring what he calls “simplexity” and “structured chaos” to the process of brainstorming, helping businesses generate creative ideas and strategies in various industries & businesses” (Wikipedia).
On Thursday, Bram Pitoyo and [...]
We at CyborgCamp are interested in discussing things like the future of Robots. In our opinion, the future has to be fun, or humans won’t be interested in adopting it.
Hexapods
Sure they may look weird, but we’re all about embracing strange amalgamations of humans and computers. With that in mind, here are some dancing robots from [...]
Yes — that’s right. You can now register for CyborgCamp online at CubeSpace’s website. Registration costs $10, and that goes to cover delicious food. If we didn’t serve delicious food, the event would be free — but delicious food is generally a good thing to keep the mind going, so we decided it was imperative [...]
