This post describes my experiences of staying in Venice for the first month of my planned trip of three months in Los Angeles. I traveled to Los Angeles from Tokyo, the flight took around nine hours. Arriving in LAX Airport and going through immigration, my initial experience with the American security officers was a little unpleasant, the officers were yelling and rushing the people through the security lines, very different experience from the security in Japan. After getting questioned about

This post is about my experience of spending 3 days in Kyoto, Japan. After having spent 7 days in Tokyo I’ve planned to visit Kyoto for some relaxing and sightseeing of some of the most famous temples and places in Kyoto. Travel from Tokyo To travel from Tokyo to Kyoto I’ve taken the Shinkansen bullet train. The travel time is only 2 hours and 15minutes. The Shinkansen has a top speed of 320km/h. Even though the train speed is really high, the feeling is exactly the same as riding any other trai

This post is a small recollection of my experience of the first week of my visit to Japan. I recently completed my study which consisted of working full time and going to school at some nights on weekdays. It was time for me to take a break from my daily work life. I’ve chosen to travel to Japan for three weeks to experience something completely different. I made the decision to visit Japan mostly because I’ve heard the culture is very unique and the food is outstanding, especially sushi, which

This post is a summary of my final study thesis. The goal of the project was to evaluate the current state of mobile AR and to find out what is possible in terms of visualizing an image on a wall and adjusting the image rendering based on viewing angle of the user. I developed a proof of concept mobile application which allows a user to select an image from an e-commerce store and place it on a wall. The app runs on both Android and IOS. I have released a stripped down open source version of the

Link to the book Review The book is written by Dave Asprey. He was one of the first Bio Hackers who was actively publishing his results online. The term Biohacking is often used to describe the process of manipulating environmental inputs to your body to trigger a specific output result. Biohacking includes a broad range of applications, taking substances to improve your mental performance or just beeing more selective about your food choices to improve overall body function. Dave used to weight