Tag Archives: technology

ZIMOUN

By admin | Published: March 8, 2011

250 prepared electro hub magnets | Untitled Sound Objects Pe Lang + Zimoun 2006 I love this artist. Not just the aesthetics of the work but the self-organizing and pseudo AI principles behind it.

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Augmented Reality Goes to the Ballgame

By admin | Published: July 30, 2010

Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times What’s your dream project? I asked this question to a former employer of mine and was told the following, “I’d love to do something with hockey… Some sort of augmented reality that compliments the at-game experience.” This wasn’t so surprising considering that his firm is always at [...]

Posted in Blog | Also tagged augmented reality, football, nfl, stadium, strategy | 1 Comment

Study: The Problem With Mass Adoption of EVs in China

By admin | Published: June 1, 2010

From Autoblog: This study, conducted by the Argonne National Laboratory and China’s Tsinghua University, specifically focuses on China and concludes that mass EV adoption could lead to tremendously higher emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide due to the country’s widespread use of coal as a power source. Here’s the skinny from the [...]

Posted in Blog | Also tagged automotive, cars, china, electric cars, EVs, green | Leave a comment

Great Read

By admin | Published: May 9, 2010

Fantastic essay by Steven Johnson on the value of keeping text/information linkable: Ecologists talk about the “productivity” of an ecosystem, which is a measure of how effectively the ecosystem converts the energy and nutrients coming into the system into biological growth. A productive ecosystem, like a rainforest, sustains more life per unit of energy than [...]

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More On Courier

By admin | Published: March 5, 2010

From Engadget: the interface appears to be pen-based and centered around drawing and writing, with built-in handwriting recognition and a corresponding web site that allows access to everything entered into the device in a blog-like format complete with comments This is a fantastic idea. I’d imagine the same thing is possible with an iPhone or [...]

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Make Any Surface Multi-Touch

By admin | Published: February 2, 2010

Transparent polymer film that can be applied to non conductive materials and turn them interactive. Very thin, it uses projected capacitive technology, making it possible to apply on the back of a glass and detect finger touch on the front of the glass. Just thinking about re-imagining the interaction relationship between input and view. Right [...]

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Approaching it From Both Ends

By admin | Published: September 14, 2009

So if this: had a large touchscreen instead of physical keys would it be a killer tablet PC? I look at this and think of a point Marshall McLuhan made in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man: that just before a new medium arrives, the older medium mirrors some of the behaviors of the new [...]

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PAD++ Reborn

By admin | Published: August 26, 2009

While at NYU I had the pleasure of attending a guest lecture by Ken Perlin. During this talk about non-linear thinking he demoed a very old program he called Pad++. It’s unique hook was that it had the ability to infinitely zoom in or out, thereby allowing you to organize information spatially. So, for instance, [...]

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AR is Everywhere

By admin | Published: July 17, 2009

And I like it… AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

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