http://www.michaelchorost.com Michael Chorost, author of <i>Rebuilt</i>, on cochlear implants Tue, 05 May 2009 17:22:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a fascinating video of a prototype device that projects information onto things in the world around you, like a book's Amazon rating onto the book itself, and a person's keywords onto their clothes. A tour de force of technological imagination. (Talk by Pattie Maes, demonstrating technology developed by ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2009/03/12/incredible-video-about-wearable-technology/ A student in Steve Potter's class at Georgia Tech asked me, "Which character in Frank Herbert's Dune do you most relate to? Has that changed since you got the cochlear implant?" I would say Duncan Idaho, the ghola. There's a passage in book 2 or 3 -- I've looked for it ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2009/03/02/questions-from-steve-potters-class/ On Wednesday and Thursday I visited Georgia Tech and Emory in Atlanta, and it was a trip full of happy surprises. I went to visit Steve Potter, who is best known for creating neural networks with living brain cells and giving them “bodies” to use and virtual worlds to ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2009/02/28/the-performance-artist-of-memory/ During Gallaudet's long winter break -- with the campus empty, the gym shuttered, and the cafeteria closed -- I've taken to walking around the athletic track for exercise. It's boring. Around and around and around and around. A few days ago I discovered my iPhone's earbuds in my desk ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2009/01/12/in-which-i-discover-podcasts/ So here's my second book, just published by Routledge: It's titled Educating Learning Technology Designers: Guiding and Inspiring Creators of Innovative Educational Tools. It's an edited volume, with chapters by many authors. The book is the brainchild of Chris DiGiano, an excellent fellow with whom I worked at SRI International ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/11/26/my-second-book-is-out/ My iPhone had a software glitch yesterday, so I took it to the Apple store in Pentagon City for expert care. While I was waiting, a young and quite cute Asian woman sat down next to me. Her iPhone's screen was shattered. "You dropped it?" I asked her, sympathetically. ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/11/24/how-not-to-treat-an-iphone/ This weekend I saw two plays, Frost/Nixon at the Kennedy Center and Fences at Gallaudet's Elstad Auditorium. Frost/Nixon was a one-note play. It chronicled how David Frost, a lightweight talk-show host, got Nixon to confess to wrongdoing in a TV interview three years after he resigned. (Yes, ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/11/22/two-plays/ In that blessed future when civilization has thrown away its keyboards and people can just think what they want to do, I’ll say to the young ‘uns, “Oh, yes, I first did it that way back in 2008, when you had to wear funny caps and do it one letter ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/11/16/in-which-i-type-with-my-mind/ Today I told my first joke in ASL. It was around the dinner table, and the students were discussing Homecoming Weekend’s closing party, called the “Bash.” I didn’t go to the Bash, because I figured my students might not want Mike the Professor around while they got drunk ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/10/19/homecoming-weekend/ Josh Swiller arrived this afternoon, and a bunch of other people did too, so now the dorm feels like an actual place instead of a deserted jail. I was here all by myself for ten days. Slips of the hand: when I told someone that "my roommate" Josh was ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/07/30/slips-of-the-hand/