CocoaHeads Oslo - Rift Labs: chasing the perfect light. @aral: Grab Magic

Join us at Mesh and enjoy stories from

Morten Hjerde (@LightThinking) and Aral Balkan (@aral)

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Thank you, Kjersti!

1. Morten Hjerde talks about how to kickstart developing an iPhone gadget
   (riftlabs.com - intelligent light)
   Bio:
   What’s the story?
   Rift Labs was started by Morten Hjerde. Morten takes a lot of
   photographs, but he is an engineer and product guy at his core. Morten
   has a background developing hardware and software for many years, and
   the last few years focusing on User Experience. About a year ago he
   started working on an idea for better photographic lights. Most
   current photographic lights are basically glorified light bulbs.
   Granted, some of them are really nice, but is this all there is to it?
   Using embedded electronics and microprocessor programming, he set out
   to explore ways to create a different kind of light. A light that
   would go where the current lights could not go. Exploring the
   possibility and feasibility of actual digital light. Light that could
   be pushed and tweaked like you push and tweak the pixels on your
   computer screen.

The development has been going on for a year and we now have a first
prototype codenamed “Floyd”. It is a platform device, meaning it can
connect to other devices, and its software can be upgraded to add
features and functionality in the future. It is built to be tweakable
and extendable.

Floyd is developed in the open. Photographers can suggest and discuss
features. Other developers can contribute and/or hack it.

2. Aral Balkan. (aralbalkan.com)
   Presents Grab Magic
   Bio:
   @aral is a designer, developer, author, teacher, entrepreneur, and
   performer; a Renaissance Geek with a passion for designing user
   experiences and a desire to make the world a better place through
   technology and oratory. These days he's organizing the Update
   conference as part of the Brighton Digital Festival and makes iPhone
   apps like his critically-acclaimed Feathers.

We want to show the diversity of the Cocoa community in Oslo by trying an App Show and tell concept. Members of the community get 10 minutes to present their App/Company. Please give feedback on this idea or suggestions for apps/companies. Send an email to André, Johannes or Karl Erik