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.
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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?
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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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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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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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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What happens when some Estonians decide to clean up their whole country in on single day? Madness, some would say. But it was done, and now the idea is spreading like wild fire. Watch the video and get inspired:
The same video can be seen with portuguese subtitles (hint hint), and there's already a Ning group to do the same in Portugal.
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