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:
Your skin as a touchscreen
Posted by bordalix Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:58:00 GMT
How would you like to use your body as a screen and input device? Well, you will be able to do it in a very near future, according to the following video, which shows Skinput, the result of some experiments from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft’s Redmond research lab.
Skinput makes use of a microchip-sized pico projector embedded in an armband to beam an image onto a user’s forearm or hand. When the user taps a menu item or other control icon on the skin, an acoustic detector also in the armband analyzes the ultralow-frequency sound to determine which region of the display has been activated.
For more information, grab the paper (in pdf format) and watch the video:
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Via Mashable.
Games, and the quest for reality
Posted by bordalix Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:28:00 GMT
Jesse Schell, a Carnegie Mellon assistant professor of entertainment and technology, made a mind blowing presentation at DICE Summit last week about the current and (possible) future trends of gaming, the mix between games and social networks, and human psychology and quest for reality. Have you ever realized that Farmville has more users than Twitter?
Via SuperDuperDudes.
Watch the video (29 minutes well worthy):
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Internet statistics
Posted by bordalix Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:24:00 GMT
A presentation from Jesse Thomas, with the latest statistics for the web usage. and very nice aesthetics:
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Augmented reality maps
Posted by bordalix Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:56:00 GMT
The 2010 edition of TED is now over, and some really interesting videos are already popping out. In this one, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos some new features in Bing Maps, and it's mind blowing:
Maybe is time for Google to bring back the Rasmussen brothers to Google Maps.
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Minority report, today
Posted by bordalix Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:08:00 GMT
John Underkoffler was the man who led the team that came up with the interface that Tom Cruise’s character used in the 2002 movie “Minority Report”. After that, he co-founded Oblong Industries, to make the gesture activated interface a reality.
Last friday, he demonstrated this gesture technology on TEDs, and said it was already being used in Fortune 50 companies, government agencies and universities, and he predicted that it would soon be available for consumers.
Here is Oblong's demonstration video:
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Windows Phone 7
Posted by bordalix Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:39:00 GMT
Ladies and Gents, we have a new contender in the smartphone arena: Microsoft Phone OS. By the look of it, they choose a clean sheet approach for the new Windows Phone 7, and rebuild it from ground zero. For all of you out there asking, no, it doesn't support Flash, which makes some sense, since Microsoft's Silverlight is a direct competitor to Flash.
All I know about this new OS is what I see in released videos, and I must say it looks good. It looks like Microsoft engineers developed a new way of mobile interaction, but only life usage will tell if is it good or not.
Available in holiday 2010 (whatever that means). Watch the video:
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Sikuli, laziness best friend
Posted by bordalix Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:24:00 GMT
Armed with a computer vision engine, Sikuli allows the average joe to program those tedious, long processes one is always doing in the Mac. This is huge, watch the demo:
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