One of the many highlights of the Emerging Technology conference was the Wednesday evening performance of Zoe Keating: “Using a 17th Century Instrument to Create the Music of the 21st Century.” Zoe uses a cello and a laptop to make beautiful multilayered music. She plays with herself. It’s loopy. Very cool. Excuse the rough camera …
A couple weeks ago I saw this very cool short TED video about Siftables, a project coming out of the MIT Media Lab and Taco Lab in San Francisco. So, for my first ETech session this morning, I’m checking out Cookie Scale Computing with Jeevan Kalanithi and David Merrill. The brief program description is: Cookie …
Interesting ETech session this morning about hacking DNA led by Reshma Shetty and Barry Canton of Ginkgo BioWorks. They brought some kits for the audience to play with. “Play” consisted of inserting some foreign DNA into e. coli for one of three effects: you could either make it turn red, smell like a banana, or, …