A common occurence for all I believe.

* Or anything else really interesting/compelling/odd/fascinating etc. etc.

Hot damn! Bike routes are being added as a feature of Google Maps

a muddy cross bike.

More photo from the most excellent “East Bay Hills Rally Cat” race this past Saturday are here.

Fascinating! Powerful smart phones have become so ubiquitous so quickly that I think many people forget that they have made the über-geek vision of wearable computing a humble reality. But the big barrier for wearable computing was always the interface – how did you make input? Where was the screen? 

While we are still some years away from the screens of tomorrow that I imagine (low powered lasers in your glasses that would paint virtual screens directly on to your retina), I think this is a big step forward in the input problem. The soft-key interface of the iPhone proves that people can get by just fine without physical buttons. Personally it took a long while to get used to, but in time I’ve discovered that I can type far more rapidly and accurately than I ever did on my Palm Treo with its Blackberry style keyboard.

So to take this concept a step furthere, why waste valuable screen real estate with keyboards, buttons and other interface elements? If you can turn the body itself into an interface device, perhaps by making our fingertips into sensors, than any surface could be used for soft-keys.

Incredible! Apparently this will be an automagical implementation of Google Voice technologies.

Not only is this an incredible boon to the hearing impaired (or anyone that wants to watch videos with the sound turned off), this is one way to start automatically adding searchable metadata to video content.