Research in Professional Writing, Games, and Design

This is a TED Talk from late last year, featuring Pranav Mistry, who is now officially one of my heroes. Though I’m not quite convinced that the portable, gesture-based systems he’s discussing here can quite catch on, nevertheless, it’s still pretty awesome and elegant. One day, I hope to work with and, more importantly, PLAY!!! with technology like this.

CeME just needs a grant… or a big investor…

The short clip of the train riders playing pong on the train floor is extremely fascinating to me. It’s a case of pulling participation out of the digital and placing it squarely in the physical world. And that is a growing interest of mine. I want to make the digital and physical converge in interesting ways. Ideas abound. But, I want to make something happen.