Posted by bordalix Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:43:00 GMT
Yesterday, we saw how we'll be able to use our eyes to enhance our reading experience via Text 2.0. And my eyes popped.
What about using our sounds to select and manipulate sound? The following video shows an experiment where one can select parts of a music by singing along, grunting or even whistling:
Yap, today my jaws dropped.
Via O'Reilly Radar
Posted by bordalix Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:25:00 GMT
What happens when the text you're reading knows what you are reading? You have just encountered text 2.0.
Using eye-trackers, HTML, CSS and a lot of Javascript, these guys from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) are creating a all new reading experience, where text adapts at what you are reading, the pace of your reading, etc.
Still hard to imagine? Maybe this video could help you understand this amazing concept:
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Via hplusmagazine.
Posted by bordalix Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT
When a video is worth a 1.000 words:
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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:
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:
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:
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.
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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