Notes from low orbit · London, Ontario
Useful things found
in strange places.
A field notebook about technology, accessibility, design, making things and the occasional inexplicable object.
42.9849° N
81.2453° W
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Current transmission
EyePods: Is giving vision to Siri an Accessibility win?
Apple’s rumoured/leaked next generation AirPods have cameras to let Apple’s Siri AI see what you see without capturing creeper shots. Maybe this is a better approach to wearable assistive tech.
Recent Recoveries
Filed in reverse chronological order
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Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs We’ll see how this plays out. It looks great and sounds great but some of the…
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Donald Bickler, the engineer who invented the Mars rover’s rocker-bogie suspension, iterated across all rover generations beginning with Sojourner, often prototyping at…
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Accessibility updates to InDesign version 20.4: Improvements for EPUB files, including MathML. The Accessible EPUB Expert Group is making a difference.
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These Fibre Art dioramas and sculptures by Vancouver artist Hiné Mizushima are vibrant, fun, and crafted using a blend of techniques to…
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A mathematician employs a brilliant metaphor to describe his existential crisis upon learning of Chat GPT’s success at a math competition.
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synthet presents fun tutorials for digital audio workstation (DAW) FL Studio, but what got me was this vocoder explainer video. It’s its…
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Takashi Mifune’s illustrations are free to use, and used freely, throughout Japan. Often seen on signage and advertisements, in educational materials, on…
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A solar-charging phone, on a pole, in an urban area, listening for music and quietly cataloguing what it finds.
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“The findings provided some evidence that neural networks formed from actual neurons spontaneously develop the ability to learn. And that could explain…
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This place gives me Studio Ghibli Museum vibes.
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I love these photos. I want to spend a lot of time in both of these places. Physicists have ruled out a…
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What happens when thousands of old satellites are out of order? Source: ‘What goes up, must come down:’ Junk satellites are a…
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Manifest is a grid-based pinboard for note taking. Kind of like in-browser sticky notes app. It feels like the kind of thing…
