Glittery, Shiny and Highly Distracting.

My-Not-So-Top-Secret-Christmas-Wish-List

I know there are tons of people wondering what I want for Christmas, wringing their hands, and pulling out their hair trying to figure this out. Well, fret no more! I am here to help!

LilyPad

LilyPad is a wearable e-textile technology developed by Leah Buechley and cooperatively designed by Leah and SparkFun. Each LilyPad was creatively designed to have large connecting pads to allow them to be sewn into clothing. Various input, output, power, and sensor boards are available. They’re even washable!

Description: This is LilyPad Arduino – the main board consisting of an ATmega168V with the Arduino bootloader and a minimum number of external components to keep it as small (and as simple) as possible. Board will run from 2V to 5V.

AIBO (Artificial Intelligence roBOt) is homonymous with “companion” in Japanese!

One of several types of robotic pets designed and manufactured by Sony (but not longer!!)

Aibo can walk, “see” its environment via camera, and recognize spoken commands. Considered to be autonomous robots since they are able to learn and mature based on external stimuli from their owner or environment, or from other AIBOs.

Artist Hajime Sorayama created the initial designs for the AIBO.

Recently inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon University. The AIBO has seen use as an inexpensive platform for artificial intelligence research, because it integrates a computer, vision system, and articulators in a package vastly cheaper than conventional research robots. (Thanks Wikipedia)

ANYTHING that We-make-Money-Not-Art Suggests

(For Example)

Natural Architecture, by Alessandro Rocca (Amazon USA and UK).

Publisher Princeton Architectural Press says: Natural Architecture presents sixty-six site-specific installations that use raw materials, manual labor, and natural stimuli to create truly green architecture that is as organic as the materials with which it is created. Projects by Olafur Eliasson, Patrick Dougherty, Nils-Udo, Ex. Studio, Edward Ng, nArchitects, and many others are shown together for the first time. Selected for their commitment to the use of raw materials, manual labor, and natural inspiration, these works are vividly displayed in photographs, drawings, and models. These fantastical creations allow the changing landscape to naturally overtake each structure until it finally decomposes. Each project is accompanied by a series of photographs, drawings, and models. The rugged and surreal beauty of the projects in Natural Architecture question the wisdom of our ever accelerating construction processes and point a way forward, toward a new organic simplicity of structure and form.

Oh Yes. This Season’s Must Have Accessory