Sebastian Thrun (robotic car fame) and Babak Parviz (contact lenses with displays and physiological sensing) doing keynotes at ISWC2011!!!

Making a motor out of 1 piece of wire; 1 AA battery; and 2 magnets http://youtu.be/zOdboRYf1hM

#iswc2011 design exhibition was great fun: reactive dresses, LEDs galore, interfaces in hat brims, communication system with dolphins

#iswc2011 education panel is surveying how to teach design and tech for wearables and ubicomp

#iswc2011 presentation on 216 person ipod-touch dataset for activity recognition eat, bicycle, car, sit, stand, train, walk, etc. alkan.jp

Just saw Rekimoto's Possessed Hand paper (lab.rekimoto.org/projects/posse…). Reminds me strangely of Huge Harry- the possessed face (iaaa.nl/hh/face/HHLect…)