For the last month, I’ve been manually recording my automobile fuel consumption. Its been an evolving process, as the amount of recorded data and data acquisition techniques have steadily been refined. This morning when I was inputting a row into my spreadsheet, I though that this process could be greatly optimized with a good iPhone/iPod Touch app. Turns out this has been done. There are a bunch of apps available that help you record your fuel consumption: Gas Cubby, GasHog, greenMeter, and AccuFuel just to name a few. GasHog and AccuFuel are the most basic of the lot, and too basic for my needs. greenMeter is by far the most innovative (see fuelclinic, NYTimes), however I don’t want more flashing lights–or in this case, real-time feedback on my fuel consumption–to distract me while driving. Gas Cubby appears to be the most mature of the fuel consumption apps, with support for lots of data parameters (tire size/pressure, fuel octane, etc.) and great features like online syncing (for more information, see the Gas Cubby manual). At $4.99 Gas Cubby seems like the app for me, let’s see if it works out.

‘los has posted his action shots from Hopu Ka Lewa 2009 via Flickr:

The supplementary video accompanying the i-Loupe and iPodLoupe paper, Getting Practical with Interactive Tabletop Displays: Designing for Dense Data, “Fat Fingers,” Diverse Interactions, and Face-to-Face Collaboration [ PDF ], is now available on YouTube:

Just finished uploading photos from my recent trip to O’ahu, Hawaii onto Flickr–thanks DC for letting me borrow that lens! For the photos, I’ve broken things down into two sets: Hopu Ka Lewa and O’ahu. The former covers the initial impetus for this trip: to attend Hopu Ka Lewa 2009 Ultimate tournament held at the Waimanalo Polo Fields in O’ahu, Hawaii from November 7-9, 2009. This is my first shot at sports photography, so it can only get better from here.The later set covers what happened after the tourney: hiking and beaches. Needless to say, it was an excellent trip.

- From the Hopu Ka Lewa set.

- From the O’ahu set.