Silicon Valley Manual

Product Concept: CloudKeys

Imagine a keyboard with small wells instead of buttons for each key. Simply inserting your finger into the well you would trigger a sensor and the keyboard would respond with a sexy, futuristic noise and/or visual confirmation instead of a loud key clack. Also different keys or macros/key combos could trigger different sounds.
For example: you play your favorite FPS and hear a different noise each time you select a
different weapon, allowing you to avoid looking off the screen at any point.

or:

You are increasing or decreasing some value of your photoshop document and the key
responds by generating a louder or quiter noise.

Let me know if you would buy it and/or what you would change and use it for in the comments.

Also- Check out the Optimus Keyboard.

Japan Photoset One: Machida, Shibuya, Harajuku, Tokyo

These are the first photos from my cell phone in Japan.
As you can see the first few are full-size and very low-res. This was before I figured out the image size setting on my phone and the thumbnails at the bottom link to the larger size all images will be in from now on.

Simply put these pictures are in Harajuku, Shibuya, and Machida (more or less in that order.) You can also read the image descriptions for more detail.

Top 10 Reasons Why Transformers Are the Awesomest Product Ever

/Spoiler Free

I saw Transformers last night and I thought to myself:

Wow, Transformers are F*cking Awesome!

As I sat in the the theater this list of 10 reasons popped into my head:

10. Alien Visitors

• Bad Aliens come to attack us, Good Aliens come to defend us. Unlike humans, they have a concept of cleaning up their own mess. Awesomeness.

9. Quantum Computing Robots

• They have quantum computing capability; operating with bio-info-nano convergent technology they are able to hack into systems in seconds that would take the world’s top supercomputers days or weeks.

8. Alien Robots

• Aliens AND Robots. Self-explanatory awesomeness.

7. Can physically attack and digitally (wirelessly) hack systems simultaneously and at ultra-high speeds

• They are amazing at multi-tasking and are capable of total multiple focus (unlike our slow human brains)

6. Can jam signals

• critical in creating the element of surprise, this disables the enemy’s ability to coordinate defenses

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A Silicon Valley Man.ifesto in 12 Points

This is a manifesto for my generation : the youngest people using internet computers upon their advent in 1993.

Besides directly relating my experience, these should be applicable tenets for users, entrepreneurs, tech-gurus, creative persons, and independent thinkers of all ages. Please let me know what you like and dislike in the comments and I will review and amend these tenets based on your opinions so we can together create a better Silicon Valley Manifesto.

Without further ado…

ASilicon Valley Man is:

1. A Marketing Conscious ‘Lost Boy‘:

• One of Google’s favorite customers; frustrated by advertisements for products he is not interested in already or are not entertaining in their own right

2. Concerned with functionality AND form.

• Cost/Benefit minded– a quality feature set with minimalist design is optimum (this is embodied by Apple Computer which was started in Los Altos, neighboring Mountain View)

3. Self-Sufficient and Independent:

• Independent thinker free of mainstream media brainwashing; neither believes in nor is engaged by TV/ Radio
• Despite peer’s feelings of entitlement his generation is among the most self-reliant and resourceful

4. Future-Focused:

• Ever-evolving, concerned with perpetually refining results in one or more areas of his life

5. Pacifist Altruist Buddhist:

• Holds a fundamental desire to help and teach the world what he can

6. Neo-Competitor:

• Video game dominator and VR enthusiast; alternatively physical via extreme sports, Disc golf, Kite-Riding, Windsurfing, Hang-Gliding, etc…

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