Chad Vavra

Mobile device experience is bad, compared to 23 year old computers.

There is a apple vs. the world argument about multitasking on mobile devices. It’s an argument that I’ve avoided until this http://blog.intuitymedialab.eu/2010/02/11/multitasking-is-evil-leaving-the-desktop-metaphore-behind/ blog post appeared in my Twitter stream suggesting that mobility is somehow contingent on the desktop metaphor. I wrote and posted this blog on my laptop, connected through a Sprint mobile network, while [...]

check this out: http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/2009/06/23/ideas-worth-taking-credit-for-the-ted-augmented-reality-hoax/ Apparently someone use 2 very common, very well know open source projects to do a demo for TED and claimed responsibility for coding them. What a fool.

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More on the system architecture will be posted soon but don’t get too excited. The technology is kind of old, however the ways around the expense and mobile service contracts is novel, I think.

You will never be my homeowners insurance company* because you are obviously idiots. Today you sent me 2 quotes.  The first was in an unmarked, obviously unsolicited, envelope.  It stated that based on public records you created a automated policy quote for me.  Apparently the replacement cost of my house is less than half it’s [...]

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As a capitalist, I am against the government bailouts of the auto industry.  I think that failing companies should fail, simple as that.  However, as the government has already bailed them out to apparently no success, I would like to make a suggestion. Any bailed out auto company can now only make 3 models until [...]

The Topps Baseball Card augmented reality story in the NY Times is getting a lot of buzz today so I thought I would share the output of thoughts a coworker, Trent Grover, and I came to after initiating some AR demos. I’ve started hacking away at this AR stuff by evaluating a whole bunch of [...]

I happened to be home today when they came and filled my propane tanks (which are only used for the water heater) so I walked out and met the delivery man in the driveway to get the receipt.  As I walked back to the house I eagerly checked the price per gallon hoping that it [...]