Hello.

I’m taking a few days off from tomorrow, so Roo’s Letter be taking a brief break too. To keep you going until Monday 16th, here’s what I’ve been looking at recently…

0x10 
(Notch, of Minecraft fame, is working on a new game)
“It’s now the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction…”
http://0x10c.com/

Google: ‘Project Glass: One day…’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4
(I want this hardware, or something like it, rather badly. I’m not at all convinced about augmenting my eyes with Google+ though.)

NYT: Google Begins Testing its Augmented Reality Glasses
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/google-begins-testing-its-augmented-reality-glasses/
via @MattSimpo

Dale Lane: Smile!
Another ex-colleague with a fun hack. Dale has a webcam in his living room (hooked up to the face.com API) to track his facial expression over time.
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=2092

Bruce Perens speaking at the Open Hardware Summit 2011
“their disease is intellectual property”
http://huffduffer.com/psd/51497

“The only heuristic that works when it comes to software complexity is experience. And even that doesn’t work all the time”
http://danshipper.com/non-technical-people-cant-estimate-developmen

How Big Cities Can Lead to Small Thoughts
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577307943076491220.html

Designing for information
http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices/2012/03/30/designing-for-information/

Yours sincerely
Roo

Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds