Commenting on a table full of electronic stuff, five times Emmy Award winner Dan "Mr. Gadget" Dubno gives a quick and funny overview of devices related to green technologies such as solar powered battery chargers, water purifying pipes, star identifying gazing systems, GPS devices with or without cameras, and so on. He offers a refreshing perspective on gadget curiosity at the WattWatt special session on sustainable development.

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Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path compiled some of the best ideas she has heard at Lift Asia in a blog post. She wrote a nice recap of the most important things that have been said:

[...] ON VISUALIZATION: By capturing and visualizing multiple streams of real-time data, we are able to show what IS happening rather than what WAS happening, prompting questions we didn’t know we had. (Stamen)

ON THE PROBLEMS WITH CASH: With cash-based systems, it’s the poorest people, those who take little bits from the ATM at the time, who bear the highest transaction costs. (David Birch) [...]

ON SUSTAINABILITY: What if devices were made to be worn IN not out, feel like an investment that’s made to last, age gracefully and have timeless features? (Raphael Grignani) [...]

ON ROBOTS: If we have a limited vision of what robots should be, our ability to create robots will be limited. The debate about humanoid vs. non-humanoid robots is moot — there’s room in the taxonomy for all kinds of robots. The most evolutionary robots will be “Homo Robotus:” Robots that are a part of a person, amplifying the person’s body and mind. (Bruno Bonnell)

ON ENVISIONING THE FUTURE: The ability to create unconstrained visions of the future lives within us all. To tap into it, we must escape from the fetters of legacies, assumptions and technology-driven innovation. We must return to the wonderful world of make believe. (From my talk on “Experiencing the Future Through Make Believe” during the Open Afternoon)

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The Talk2Man guys did a really cool video capturing the ambiance of the conference. It's in Korean but if you could not attend check it our nevertheless, it will give oyu an idea of what happened 2 weeks ago in Jeju!

Talk2Man Episode #11_talk2man in LIFT ASIA08 Part_1 from Talk2Man on Vimeo.

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As you know LIFT has an alliance with the organizers of PICNIC, one of the most inspiring European event which brings together and disseminates the ideas and knowledge of the world's best creators and innovators. PICNIC spotlights cutting-edge products and services at the intersection of media, technology, arts and entertainment, and brings together entrepreneurs, investors, creators as well as scientists, and other industry leaders.

At PICNIC you can do more than pick up new ideas and network with your peers. Save the world.. Create a new service.. Experience new tools... Find a business partner.. Admire the arts.. Get inspired..And of course party with Europe's digital elite.

The main theme of PICNIC08 is "Collaborative Creativity" in its many guises. PICNIC will look at new and connected forms of intelligence and creativity, from the fields of entertainment, science, the arts and business. Speakers include Clay Shirky, Jeff Jarvis, Charles Leadbeater, Stefano Marzano and more. Take a look at the PICNIC site for more details: picnic08.com

Members of the Lift community can register for a discounted PICNIC 08 ticket. Use code 271815 when registering via picnicnetwork.org/tickets and you will receive an immediate discount of 10% on the regular entry price of any ticket.

Note: The conference starts on the 24th and I will be speaking or moderating a panel there. Not sure yet, just like Lift PICNIC is a moving thing and it changes very fast. But I'll be there!

We had two photographers who took "official" photos of Lift Asia 08: Laurent Bolli of Bread and butter (the cool design boutique who also handled the Lift branding and production) and Amy Killoren. Both are uploading their photos to flickr and you can see them on flickr.com/photos/liftconference

So far there are two sets: one with general pictures of the ambiance, and one with pictures of the participants. More is coming soon, Laurent still had hundreds of pictures he is working on.

And there are hundreds of pictures made by the participants and tagged lift asia 08 on flickr.com/photos/tags/liftasia08.

If you do not live in a cave you have probably heard of that one of the most ambitious science project ever has been turned on this week by the CERN. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is getting ready to recreate the conditions that existed one second after the big band. Why? What are we looking for? What might be discovered?

Check Brian Cox's Lift07 speech to get some answers! He's a rock start turned scientist, and gave one of the best Lift speech ever.

For more videos liftconference.com/videos as usual. The Lift Asia talks are coming in 10 days normally, I saw some previews and they look really good!

Hanna Cho's note from the session about the "Virtual Money" at LIFT Asia. The first speaker, David Birch, an economist gave his perspective on the future of digital currency, he was followed by science-fiction writer Bruce Sterling.

Nicolas and I sat down before the last session, trying to come up with early takeaways I briefly talked about to wrap up the conference. Here are 6 ideas that came up after listening to the 20 different Lift Asia presentations as written on Pasta & Vinegar.

1. new experience of space: physical space change, the way we perceive and interact in space is modified. Christian Lindholm talked about wifi places as oasis, Adam Greenfield talked about the new way we will experience places, etc.
2. redifinition of currency & business models as shown by Davird Birch’s talk, Joonmo Kwon described new business models such as co-promotion or the fact that game money are controlled by game designers (they even control the inflation rate)
3. service convergence as described by Joonmo Kwon and Takeshi Natsuno. Social networks = games = email = IM = online store
4. cities are interfaces: Jury Hahn, Jeffrey Huang, Soo-In Yang or Adam Greenfield gave us different propositions
5. technology is relative: some countries are more advanced than others but things are very relative, the speed of change is increasing (as shown by Jan Chipchase), it’s never black or white, the notion of “uses” is also different.
6. real world is a limit: the limit is often simple: the physical reality: battery life (and that there could be solutions as exemplified by Raphael Grignani), machines that crash, etc.

The post-conference homepage is up as we're taking a few days off. See you next month week?!?