Open Tech 2005

I was pretty rubbish on Saturday, and only made this event by the skin of my teeth – not an easy achievement given the state of London transport in the aftermath of recent events.
Anyway, it was well worth going to, and there was the usual problem of deciding which events to see – the main lecture stream or the seminar stream.
My biggest technical accomplishment of the day was surely to work out how to operate the taps in the bathroom though. I felt completely stupid when having spent a couple of minutes waving my hand under unseen (and un-present) sensors, to get the water working, before finally realising there were foot pedals.
Biggest joke of the day was when a session on device hacking began with audience members being invited to bring their Ipod Shuffles to the front. They were immediately put in a cardboard box, “shuffled” and redistributed. Later on, they had to be “un-shuffled” when it became clear that valuable files might also be saved on the drives.
Anyway, lots of stuff to see and learn. Many more people I should have said hello to, but didn’t. But that’s my shy/nervous demeanour.
And I’d happily be building a Myth TV box right now, were it not for the fact that when our IT department rolled out new PCs to our department over the weekend, they insisted on taking away the old ones and not selling them off cheap. I’d have paid £100 for my old machine!


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  1. alexiduggins avatar
    alexiduggins

    Dear Adam,
    I was interested to read the comment you posted around a month ago stating that you are currently organising an urban gaming experience.
    I’m thinking about writing a piece on urban gaming experiences, and was wondering if you could provide me with some more information.
    If you’re interested, could you please email me at no_register@yahoo.com?
    Hope to hear from you soon.
    Alexi.