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immerseyoursoulincode: radstake: Microsoft builds a functioning ‘holodesk’ to interact with digital items I’m a real sucker for this sort of thing. I actually constructed a setup like this a while ago after Bill Buxton suggested the idea when he spoke at Artefact. I only had the glass reflection/holograph effect going (I didn’t do the object…
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The increase in size for this new standard (UHDTV) is tremendous… (via Ultra HDTV technical standards agreed on, more pixels is a good thing – Engadget)
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The printed book, as Seth Godin wrote recently, is a fetish of sorts, like an expensive watch: something we buy because we like to look at it, but something that is no longer really functional or necessary. In the end, that’s likely to be a good thing, not a bad one. What happens to books…
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OmniTouch projection interface takes some wild steps forward
The people at Microsoft Research have come up with a very cool projection system that attaches to the user’s shoulder and projects on hands, arms and walls. Could this present a threat to the world of smart phones and tablet computers at some point? Perhaps… after some software and hardware advances (such as slicker shoulder-mounted…
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The Impact of Apple’s Siri Release – From the Former Lead Developer
The Impact of Apple’s Siri Release – From the Former Lead Developer “The Siri application released with the iPhone 4s has the potential to radically impact how we interact with technology. Ed Wrenbeck, former lead developer from Siri, talks through his history with the app…”
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emergentfutures: Australian video game studios face obliteration Australian video game creators fear the local development industry is on the brink of collapse after a string of studio closures. Seven high-profile video game studios have shut down in the past six years, with the latest casualty, KMM Brisbane, closing its doors on Friday. Full Story: ABC…
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Mosaic offered many new web features, including support for video clips, sound, forms, bookmarks, and history files. “The striking thing about it was that unlike all the earlier X-browsers, it was all contained in a single file,” Gillies and Cailliau explain: Installing it was as simple as pulling it across the network and running it.…
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Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure is a much better game than it has any right to be. I’ve seen people write off this experimental combination of toys and cross-platform gaming as a cheap cash-in attempt, but the experiment is wildly successful. The toys look great, the portal technology is interesting, and the games themselves are actually fun.…
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This past weekend, another pregnant woman took a similarly public, if less artistic, approach to her birth. Nancy Salgueiro, 32, an Ottawa chiropractor, childbirth educator, and now mother of three, live-streamed her entire labor and home birth online. Thousands of viewers watched her eating a salad and typing Facebook updates in between contractions, during which…
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Avi What’s the importance of bookbinding in a digital age? Michael My friend who owns several bookstores often laughs at me. “We’re in a dying trade,” he says. Too often, I have to agree with him. But when I get sick of all the information beaming at me through the computer and over the radio…