Here's a post on the state of the do-it-yourself projector. Here are photos of the custom-built eVo's being delivered.

The Lumenlab forums are home to a thriving community of homemade projector enthusiasts and helpful tweaks guides. For example, this one made from an LCD monitor, plywood box, and various optics and electronics.

Three cheers for custom-made boutique hardware!

One interesting aspect of this technology would be near-real-time satellite photography of entire cities. Another would be near-real-time imaging of biological samples.

To get an idea of just how detailed a gigapixel image is, check out the insanely detailed Harlem 13 Gigapixels, using technology provided by Zoomify.

"Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task -- playing a C-minor scale 100 times, for instance, or hitting tennis serves until your shoulder pops out of its socket. Rather, it involves setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome."

E-Tech: Time Globe
E-Tech: Time Globe 2
E-Tech(?): Holo Globe
E-Tech: OLPC
E-Tech: Glowbots 1
E-Tech: Glowbots 2
E-Tech: Glowbots 3
E-Tech: Crazy Haptic Shoes !?
E-Tech: Color E-Ink
E-Tech: E-Ink Motorola phone screen
E-Tech: E-Ink prototype
E-Tech: E-Ink prototype 2
E-Tech: Flickering light-field display by rotating mirror
E-Tech: Microsoft Surface 1
E-Tech: Microsoft Surface 2
E-Tech: Microsoft Surface 3
E-Tech: Signage
E-Tech: Jim Blinn
E-Tech: Grimage 1
E-Tech: Grimage 2
E-Tech: Grimage 3
E-Tech: Qualcomm display
E-Tech: OLE 3D visual paradox game by Jun Fujiki
E-Tech: Multi-touch via refraction and a webcam
E-Tech: Crazy LED "image wands" 1
E-Tech: Crazy LED "image wands" 2
E-Tech: Crazy LED "image wands" 3
E-Tech: VR robot headset
E-Tech: VR robot
E-Tech: Turtle game, two projectors provide the evolving game "world" for the turtle robot to move around in

Reception: At the marina

Here's Matthew Hockenberry of CreativeSynthesis.net demo'ing the XO on the show floor:

The AMD Geode CPU runs at 433 MHz, which is fast enough to play Doom. Performance degrades noticeably when switching between applications. Notice how long it takes for the camera application to boot in the video above.

Given that there are between 500K and 1 million unique English words (depending on whether or not you include technical and scientific jargon), it should come as no surprise that every conceivable, well-known word already has a domain.

For the past year, Firefox has been consistently pegged at nearly 100% CPU under normal usage. After some profiling, I found that Flash is taking up most of these cycles. Basically, "zombie" SWFs are running in the background, computing animations, doing security checks, etc. Flashblock turns off Flash content by default, replacing it with a button that lets you opt-in to running individual SWF files.

While this is rather effective, it's a suboptimal solution. What I really want is a way to cap the resources that Flash is allowed to use.

Although not built using an actual multi-touch system, the Photoshop Multi-touch concept is very interesting:

Google did a similar study back in 2005, resulting in Google Code's Web Authoring Statisics. Unfortunately, their results only cover the most popular HTML and CSS elements.

Rene's thesis brings up some interesting points. Given that we're roughly 30 years (depending on who you ask) into the mainstream computer revolution and HTML will be with us for a very long time, there's value in using such studies to simplify future web standards.

1. To make it easier to develop apps for the iPhone. It's still a PC world, among developers even more so. Putting a binary in the hands of developers knocks down a big barrier to entry, and will make a big impact, the same way ADC membership quadrupled in the year since Apple shifted to Intel. Apple will innovate in Safari, and these innovations will run on Windows, Mac, and iPhone.
2. Lock-in by proprietary extensions. For example, the web services on my corporate intranet all but require IE due to the use of proprietary features and extensions. FireFox and other browsers simply don't work 100% of the time, which is the kiss of death when using mission-critical apps in that context. Replace "corporate intranet app" with "iPhone-aware web app" and it's possible that the cool, flashy new sites built for the iPhone will be a driver for folks to use Safari on their desktops.
3. Lock-in by bundling. iTunes is de facto for PC iPod owners, regardless of what their favorite MP3 player app is. Safari may become de facto for PC iPhone users. The iPhone will integrate with a desktop, it's not clear yet what form this will take. Even if Safari isn't the primary mechanism for sync'ing, there's value in having, e.g., shared bookmarks, which will likely work better with Safari than any other browser.
4. Own the desktop. iTunes and QuickTime are Apple's beachhead on Windows. If Safari gains equivalent traction, the Windows desktop looks and works more like a Mac desktop, knocking down another reason not to buy a Mac.
5. Adobe already did it. They showed that it was possible, even easy to (effectively) release Safari on Windows. AIR, formerly known as Apollo, integrates WebKit, and has been released for Windows. The WebKit library forms the underpinnings of Safari.