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Your skin as a touchscreen

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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

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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?

Via SuperDuperDudes.

Watch the video (29 minutes well worthy):

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Internet statistics

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A presentation from Jesse Thomas, with the latest statistics for the web usage. and very nice aesthetics:

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Augmented reality maps

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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:

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Minority report, today

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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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