Street slide
Posted by bordalix Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:45:00 GMT
The future of navigation through street pictures from Microsoft Research:
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The big ad is watching you
Posted by bordalix Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:10:00 GMT
8 years after the debut of Minority Report, fiction became reality: NEC developed a new technology, which enables ads to adapt to people who is near by, by gender and age. CNN reports:
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Mouseless
Posted by bordalix Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:39:00 GMT
Following the series "my computer has an invisible friend", today's show is about the invisible mouse:
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How to connect your brain to a computer
Posted by bordalix Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:33:00 GMT
Here is the how-to, in a 4 minutes video:
Project developed by the Ghent University (Belgium) using OpenVibe, a open source software for brain-computer interfaces, from Inria.
Select sound with sound
Posted by bordalix Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:43:00 GMT
Yesterday, we saw how we'll be able to use our eyes to enhance our reading experience via Text 2.0. And my eyes popped.
What about using our sounds to select and manipulate sound? The following video shows an experiment where one can select parts of a music by singing along, grunting or even whistling:
Yap, today my jaws dropped.
Via O'Reilly Radar
Text 2.0
Posted by bordalix Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:25:00 GMT
What happens when the text you're reading knows what you are reading? You have just encountered text 2.0.
Using eye-trackers, HTML, CSS and a lot of Javascript, these guys from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) are creating a all new reading experience, where text adapts at what you are reading, the pace of your reading, etc.
Still hard to imagine? Maybe this video could help you understand this amazing concept:
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Via hplusmagazine.
The Internet of Things
Posted by bordalix Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT
When a video is worth a 1.000 words:
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The videogame history timeline
Posted by bordalix Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:18:00 GMT
Mauricio Giraldo did a great job with his videogame history timeline. It's funny to see Charles Darwin in it, but after you think about it for a while, it makes sense:
Learn to communicate visually
Posted by bordalix Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:25:00 GMT
At school, you learned maths and how to write. But you should learned also how to draw, being a powerful tool to express ideas and new concepts. Well, now you can, with this visual guide, a really great work done by Howtoons and the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams:
Internet growth
Posted by bordalix Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:04:00 GMT
BBC has done a great job in this animated info graphic with the Internet penetration by country, from 1998 to 2008:
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