Esquire’s augmented reality issue
January 25, 2010
Esquire Editor David Granger demos the interactive magazine. Download the AR app here.
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Project Natal interactive Milo demo
January 25, 2010
“Peter Molyneaux gives us a look at Milo, which uses Project Natal for amazing interaction with an on-screen character.”
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Project Natal demo for Xbox 360
January 25, 2010
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Micro and nanotechnologies are revolutionizing medicine
January 25, 2010
EUTUBE | Micro and nanotechnologies are revolutionizing medicine. ‘Almost invisible’ tools are being developed by European researchers to discover diseases earlier and to treat patients better. The miniaturization of instruments to micro and nano dimensions promises to make our future lives safer and cleaner. A team of European researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technologies Institute near Saarbruecken is using nanotechnology to improve diagnostic capabilities. In the “Adonis”-project, nano-sized… read more
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GestureTek’s GestureFX®
January 25, 2010
“GestureTek’s patented GestureFX® series is a stunning interactive visual display system that has revolutionized advertising and entertainment in public spaces. Using sophisticated cameras and body tracking software, the system intelligently responds to the subtlest of body movements to project dynamic interactive multimedia content or interactive games onto any surface, of any size.”
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GestureTek’s GestPoint® demo
January 25, 2010
“GestPoint® is the core gesture recognition technology powering GestureTek’s touchless interactive displays, point and click presentation systems and mouse replacement solutions. GestPoint utilizes advanced computer vision and body tracking software to convert simple hand movements into direct mouse control in any environment.”
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GestureTek’s Illuminate® interactive multi-touch table
January 25, 2010
“GestureTek’s Illuminate® multi-touch table brought the touch interface from the James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, to life. Inspired by the film, the British Film Institute in South Bank, London, hosted an event to show film enthusiasts how the multi-touch interface could be created for real, rather than as a post-production effect. Seeper created the engaging interactive multi-touch content. GestureTek’s U.K. dealer, Paradigm Audio Visual, provided the hardware.”
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Essex University’s robot fish
January 25, 2010
“A robotic fish developed by scientists from Essex University is put through its paces in a special tank at the London Aquarium. It works via sensors and has autonomous navigational control.”
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PointScreen™ user interface from the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis & Information Systems
January 25, 2010
“PointScreen™ is an Interface developed at Fraunhofer Institut für Medienkommunikation in Bremen, Germany. PointScreen™ makes it possible to control the computer intuitively with gestures. The user navigates by merely pointing toward the screen; contrary to touch screen technology, the interaction proceeds completely without touch. The PointScreen™ technology is based on the principle of Electric Field Sensing (EFS): the dynamics of the body—such as gestures and movement—are measured and digitally registered.… read more
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Anthony Atala, M.D., discusses tissue engineering at TEDMED 2009
January 23, 2010
Anthony Atala , M.D., Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, discusses advances in tissue engineering at TEDMED 2009.
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XXNIGHTOPSXX | Art from the second Golden Age of Science Fiction when books, magazines and films had some of the most amazing and memorable covers/artwork from artists like Peter Elson, Angus Mckie, Chris Foss and Tim White and John Berkey.
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“The Pusher” by Keiichi Matsuda
January 1, 2010
KEIICHI MATSUDA | Alternative realities surround us and present possible and impossible fantasies for purposes of information, advertising, glamorising, publicising, and propagating the ideals of capitalism through consumption. The mechanisms of addiction are at play.
Shop windows, billboards, magazines are portals to parallel universes. They set-dress our mundane world, and relieve us of the responsibility of the dream. The pusher shows us what our aspirations are, and shows us… read more
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HUMOR | The Mactini
December 23, 2009
Source: "The Peter Serafinowicz Show," BBC2 — December 23, 2009
From “The Peter Serafinowicz Show: Christmas Special” on BBC2.
The original MacBook Air commercial for comparison.
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded
detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
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