Microsoft Skinput

Posted on May 28, 2010 in Immersive by dulce303

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Chris Harrison, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a former Microsoft research intern, has been collaborating with Microsoft to produce a working prototype of Skinput.

Google TV

Posted on May 28, 2010 in Immersive by dulce303

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Google TV combines current TV programming with the freedom and power of the Internet. With Google Chrome built in, one can access all of their favorite websites and easily move between television and the web. This opens up the TV from a few hundred channels to millions of channels of entertainment across TV and the…

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Winscape Window

Posted on May 28, 2010 in Mixed Reality by dulce303

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With Two 46-inch Panasonic TC-P46G10, Apple Mac Pro workstation, and OS X software called Winscape you to can have augmented windows in your livingroom. You can simulate the effect being at a known location anywhere in the world, (or where you can get footage), as long as the viewer is wearing a tracking device such…

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CERN Atlas Popup Book

Posted on May 28, 2010 in Origins by dulce303

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles

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The Internet of Things

Posted on May 28, 2010 in Networks by dulce303

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The Internet of Things is a network of Internet-enabled objects, together with web services that interact with these objects. Underlying the Internet of Things are technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification), sensors, and smartphones. More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting information networks promise to create…

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Augmented Layars

Posted on May 28, 2010 in Mixed Reality by dulce303

When I saw a Verizon ad using Layar

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AM Radio

Posted on May 28, 2010 in Grids by dulce303

I’ve made a few trips to AM Radio/IDIA Labs’ sims, and I’ve always found the builds to be surprising and delightful. AM Radio has the ability to create existential, spiritual and relatable sims. His detailed builds and amazing textures illustrate the ideas of falling in between spaces, alternate universes, parallel existences, portals and holes in…

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The Personal Hovercraft

Posted on March 20, 2010 in Immersive by dulce303

The Personal Hovercraft: Honda’s robot transporter. Honda’s answer to the Segway comes in unicycle style hovercraft, that glides across the floor with ease and looks like a fun ride. This robotic vehicle is not street legal, just like the case of the Segway, law markers can’t figure out how to classify this new form of…

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Apple iPad Explained

Posted on March 20, 2010 in Immersive by dulce303

Magical, A Revolution, A Break Through, THE BEST, and it will change the world! From the way these guys at Apple describe this new device one would think the iPad is going to blow minds and become the tool of the future. These revelations may hold some merit, (iPad has already made the Kindle look…

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Leonardo Robot

Posted on March 20, 2010 in Robotics by dulce303

Leonardo is a robot developed by Professor Cynthia Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab in conjunction with Stan Winston Studio and DARPA. Leonardo is an adorable AI robot that learns from facial cues and voice inflections. He’s also interactive, though he’s not mobile yet, he can gesture with his arms and fingers,…

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