What Kicker Was Doing the Week Ending 2008-12-07

• The jackhammering behind our office is awesome. Sigh. #
• A 20′ Multitouch Wall in Three Weeks: http://nuigroup.com/log/dubaiwall20/ #
• Ball-it is cool: a ball-like remote control device you gesture with. http://icanhaz.com/ball-it (thanks @chadt!) #
• We just cracked 300 (307!) subscribers to our RSS feed! Thanks for reading! http://tinyurl.com/6pdkfo #
• BART launches an API (!): http://www.bart.gov/schedules/developers/index.aspx #
• Dan’s new book is arriving via Amazon today. On shelves tomorrow! http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com #
• Making the touchscreen iPhone usable FOR THE BLIND: http://tinyurl.com/6fh3cz #
• Another conference we’d like to attend: http://www.nordes.org/ #
• If we were in Chicago, we’d totally go to the Thinkering with Hardware workshop at ID: http://www.id.iit.edu/917/ #
• So many good conferences…all of them far away. (Europe is the New SF?) Like Tangible Embedded Interaction 09: http://tei-conf.org/ #
• SF followers: Our holiday party is tonight from 6-10. Come by the studio for holiday cheer: http://designguildsf.pingg.com/holidaybazaar2008 #
• We’re having fun playing with FluidTunes. Control iTunes with gestures! Fun (for a while anyway): http://fluidtunes.com/ (Mac only) #
• 12 traits of a great interaction designer: http://tinyurl.com/5bocvk #
• “Wizards can…seduc[e] users into shallow cognitive behavior.” http://tinyurl.com/6yapgt #
• If we didn’t have a big deadline on Wednesday, we’d totally be going to this Doug Engelbart tribute: http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html #
• We are coveting our office neighbor’s desks and Herman Miller chairs. Plotting IKEA trip. #
• Most amazing part about this iPhone/microcontroller project to give dog treats remotely? Done in 90 minutes. http://icanhaz.com/treatremote #
• We’re Arduino fans, but definitely going to keep an eye on ioBridge now too for fast DIY projects: http://www.iobridge.com/ #
• Remote iPhone/microcontroller dog treat link: http://tinyurl.com/6k5avf #
• We’re headed to @CES09 next month. Are you? #

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