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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 the…
Tag Archives: technology
July 30, 2010
Augmented Reality Goes to the Ballgame
June 1, 2010
Study: The Problem With Mass Adoption of EVs in China
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 study:
China currently…
May 9, 2010
Great Read
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 an…
March 5, 2010
More On Courier
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 iPad via…
February 2, 2010
Make Any Surface Multi-Touch
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 now…
September 14, 2009
Approaching it From Both Ends
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 one. My…
August 26, 2009
PAD++ Reborn
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,…
July 8, 2009
It’s Getting Interesting
It’s getting interesting:
The new operating system, announced late Tuesday night on Google’s Web site, will be based on the company’s nine-month-old Web browser, Chrome. Google intends to rely on help from the community of open-source programmers to develop the Chrome operating system, which is expected to begin running computers in the second half of 2010.
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