Very cool demo of Wired’s new iPad application. Once you get past the Creative Director’s monotone and completely disinterested manner (think Ferris Bueller’s teacher…Bueller, Bueller…), the video really shows off some cool features.
My favourite quote is from Chris Anderson…”…people may actually want to pay for it…”.
Right out of Spielberg’s Minority Report, this innovative and extremely cool user interface offers a hope of things to come. This is the same user itnerface that was demoed almost a year ago at TED.
|Take a picture and launch a Google search of whatever you just snapped a pic of. How simple is that…
|Take 8 giant flat panels positioned in a circle around the user and display Google StreetView information on them… That is essentially what Google’s Liquid Galaxy is all about, but it is almost so much more than that…
|Is this a case of traditional media embracing new technologies to remain relevant or is this akin to putting perfume on the proverbial pig? Personally, I love that Esquire is innovating its traditional form factors. We will always need great content and as more and more traditional media players fold or cut-back on writers and [...]
|David Hanson presents further advancements in his journey to try and build sentience and empathy into robotics:
|A wicked smart and industrious Felipe Gomes has posted a video of some of his work getting multitouch support on Windows 7 using Firefox… More information on this here and at his blog here…
Multitouch on Firefox from Felipe on Vimeo.
|Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robot reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can aquire of their environment, and therefore [...]
|In an attempt to add some context to something that we all need, but have a hard time wrapping our collective heads around (yeah…air), some geniuses in Madrid have actually visualized all of the things that make up and invade our air. Check out more information and images at Brain Pickings…
In the air – Physical [...]
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