Creating Art with S Memo

In the last year or so, I’ve been creating art—mostly portraits—using S Memo on my cellphone. S Memo is like a simplified version of Microsoft Windows Paint: you get some drawing tools (pencil, brush, marker), an eraser, a text tool, a customizable color palette, and an undo function. The whole thing began when I decided

R.I.P., Macintosh Performa 636CD

Finally, I got rid of my old Macintosh Performa 636CD, which I bought in the mid-1990s. On it I had Mark of the Unicorn’s Perfomer software, version 5.5. With Performer I recorded all of my albums beginning with 1994’s Oleanders through 2010’s Swing ‘n’ Swive (The Jogovision Song Contest 2011 was recorded with Cakewalk). The

Necomimi / 猫耳

Musician Ryūichi Sakamoto tries on a pair of Neurowear’s necomimi (“cat’s ears”), which responds to one’s emotional state.  They perk up when you’re excited or happy, droop when you’re sad or relaxed, and so on. According to Reuters, Neurowear says the necomimi will be available for sale in the spring, at a price of “several hundred

“Ubiquitous” computer

Most of this is in Japanese, but a man does explain the basic concept in English: a computer that learns from you how to perform, rather than the user learning to use the computer. I’d like to know, though: How well does the projector work in a very brightly lit room? Is the phone function essentially