The other day I noticed that Shameless’ “Geek Chic” category is sadly underrepresented. Tech is important to me. I <3 tech. Poor little tech, not getting the love.
Sometimes the line is blurry between the personal interests of one young feminist (<-me), and what might be interesting to young feminists everywhere.
But when you get a great lead on some new (or overlooked) tech hawtness, one of the first things you do is share it with all your geeky buddies. So that's what I'm going to start doing here, extended circle of geeky buddies: expect some more regular excited blathering from me about videogames, operating systems, gizmos, hacks, all the things a growing tech-savvy girl needs.
Playing catch-up, here are few bits and pieces I owe you, Shameless ladies:
Nokia’s Morph nanotechnology concept ad
PicLens
PicLens is a swishy new picture viewing plug-in for Windows or Mac (and for just about any browser, though you’re all using Firefox right?)Check out the preview. Shiny.
Head-tracking with the Wiimote
Not just for bowling: Johnny Chung Lee demos how to use a Wii remote to create a head-tracking VR display:Google Talk Chatback badge
And the one I’m most excited about today, the newest coolest release from Google: the Google Talk Chatback badge. Put chat functionality on your website. So easy, so awesome.
Just like tech. :)
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three comments
On a completely un-technologically-related note, I thought it was interesting that the Nokia concept commercial uses a woman as its example of a user. Tech stuff is usually first and foremost geared towards men - hooray, Nokia acknowledges that we exist!
Posted by Thea
February 27, 2008, 5:02 PM
Hey Thea, I was going to comment on that -- it gave me a moment of warm and fuzzy feelings towards Nokia.
Interestingly though, putting women in concept videos isn't that unusual, and isn't always a good thing. Sometimes it's used for the double whammy subtexts of: "it's so easy that women can use it"; and showing it with/on a woman makes it sexier.
In this case, I'm choosing to see it as just a good thing. Where good thing == seeing yourself reflected in media. If Morph ever comes out, that's gonna be me.
Posted by Catherine
February 27, 2008, 5:15 PM
Oh Catherine, ur so l337.
:)
Posted by Erin
February 27, 2008, 9:32 PM
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