I love it when I see others help others. Why can’t it always be like that? Happy July 4th.
Photos by Eliot Hess
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Our First Visit To Martha’s Vineyard
It’s difficult to believe that Eliot and I have traveled all over the world but we have never been to Martha’s Vineyard. We are here for five days because the oldest daughter, of our long time friend and former client, Marty Homlish and his wife Joanne, is getting married on their estate tomorrow night. Joanne and Marty have four adult children.
Marty has had a brilliant career in tech. He was one of the top executives at Sony, SAP, and HP. I met him almost 40 years ago when he was a marketing manager at JVC. All six Homlish’s vacationed with us a number of times in the Hamptons. We are thrilled to be celebrating with them.
Cecilia, the first Homlish grandchild born five weeks ago.
We have been touring around a lot but absolutely fell in love with the Queen Anne architecture in Oak Bluffs. Even though we are devoted fans of contemporary design, we do appreciate the details of the style that was so popular from 1880 to 1910.
The first house we were swooning over belongs to Peter Norton, the successful computer programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist.
Norton’s house draws tourists from all over the world. Many people try to enter because they think it’s a hotel. He had to post a sign at the entrance that says “Private Home” in order to keep strangers from congregating on his porch.
Other houses we admired below. All photos: Eliot Hess.
Make Your Photo Come To Life
I don’t know if you are aware of it, but there is a new trend to print digital photos. Young people love printing their photos. Everything old is new again.
LifePrint is a wireless photo printer. It works with most smartphones. LifePrint is very much like the Polaroid Zip Instant Mobile Printer. LifePrint is $129 and Polaroid Zip is $129.95.
The big difference is that LifePrint can print videos. If you want to print from a video, or a moving image, you get to select the exact still frame you’d like to have printed.
Moving images that get printed as still photos are referred to as HyperPhotos. You can use the LifePrint app’s augmented reality viewfinder to bring these HyperPhotos back to life.
It’s really wild. Watch the video.
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CE Reunion At CE Week
After weeks and weeks of planning, 50-plus consumer electronics veterans got together to celebrate our careers and relationships. Some of us know each other almost 50 years.
We held the event at CE Week, a trade show in the consumer electronics business. Event organizers Eric Schwartz and Robin Raskin provided the lounge area at the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC. Thank you again.
It was so much fun to watch old friends greet each other. Some of us havent’t see each other for decades. A few cried. Everyone hugged. We all went home feeling a little bit more connected.
Passing On News Without Reading
I was not that surprised this morning when the Today Show announced a big misconception. A new study finds that nearly 60 percent of the links people share on emails and social media have never been read by the sender.
If you click here, you can watch the Today Show announcements.
That explains the ridiculous and insane political emails I receive from people who I thought were my friends. The study suggests they read the headlines of a story and have no patience to read the rest.
Researchers say “this suggests that people tend to form an opinion, without bothering to get the full story.”
That’s a scary thought.
A New York Kind Of Day
Calorie Counting Technology
Photo by : AVA
A startup company named AVA that permits you to take a photo of what you want to eat and reports the amount of calories contained in that item or items before you start consuming.”
It sounds crazy but AVA wants you to take a photo of what you are about to eat, text it to them and they will give you health and caloric information immediately.
Ian Brady, AVA’s co-founder and CEO, told Digital Trends. “We want to do away with the dreary manual logging process of rival healthy-eating apps in favor of an altogether more streamlined process.”
AVA is in beta mode. The technology is a combination of image recognition, human recognition and algorithms.
Founded in 2016, the company raised $3 million from DCM Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors.
Read more about it here in Digital Trends.
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So You Think You Can’t Draw
Graham Shaw, the author of “The Art of Business Communication: How to use pictures, charts and graphics to make your message stick,” wants to help people accomplish things they never thought possible.
I recently watched his TED Talk because too many friends my age have regrets about not doing certain things with their lives–ski, write, golf, act. They won’t even try now.
Shaw said, “Many people believe they can’t draw. I think it’s more to do with beliefs rather than talent and ability. So I think when you say you can’t draw, that’s just an illusion. And today I’d like to prove that to you.
“I’m not saying you are all going to draw like Michelangelo, but I bet by the end of the session you could draw pictures.There are only two things you need to do to be able to achieve this. One is have an open mind and two, just be prepared to have a go. So grab a pen and a piece of paper.”
My attempt. It was a lot of fun.
Van Gogh’s The Starry Night In Water
One of the reasons why I love reading tech blogs so much is because I learn something new all the time. The minute I read about Turkish artist Garip Ay in Gizmodo, I knew I was going to share the story with you.
Ay recreated Van Gogh’s The Starry Night in a tray of water. The technique is called “Ebru.” It’s traditional Turkish painting. People in the art world simply refer to it as painting on water (swirling the paint) and then transferring it onto paper.
Garip Ay was born in Turkey in 1984 He first studied in the High School of Fine Arts in Diyarbakir, Turkey, He later graduated with a degree in Traditional Turkish Arts from Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. Ay has held numerous exhibitions, workshops and seminars around the world.
It’s quite fascinating. Please watch the video. There is a surprise ending.
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Pelosi Challenges Apple
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi recently said that Steve Jobs did not invent the iPhone.
“He was a pretty good designer. He was also good at putting things together.” Speaking before the Democratic National Convention Platform Hearing on Thursday, Pelosi said the U.S government invented the iPhone as well as other tech innovations.
Watch the above video to hear her exact words.
“Almost everything came from federal investments and research,” she said. Pelosi made those remarks when she was trying to underscore the importance of “federally funded basic research that contributed to some of the technology that was ultimately integrated into the iPhone.”
Rep. Pelosi said she knew Jobs well and didn’t mean to disrespect his contributions to the world. “Apple will admit that the core technologies of the iPhone came from federally-funded innovations.”
You can read more about this in CNET.
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