interesting 12.13.09
- Seppukoo: Assisting your virtual suicide
- Stanford researchers develop next generation of retinal implants
- At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = instant battery
- Facebook’s New Privacy Push Concerns Experts
- My Car is My Lover: Documentary about mechaphiles – fetish for sex with cars & other vehicles [video]
- Current: Vanguard presents – Remote Control War [video]
- instructables: how to convert a standard outlet into an in-wall USB Charger
- MIT Red Balloon Team wins $40,000 cash prize in DARPA Network Challenge
- Google Goggles – Use pictures to search the web – image recognition app for mobile phones
interesting 12.6.09
- University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome: LifeHand trial – Man controls cybernetic hand with thoughts
- NPD Group: Among American kids ages 2-17, 82% report they are gamers
- Layar 3.0 launched: 5 cases to show the power of the platform – mobile augmented reality
- The Blueprints, reference image database, with more than 37000 blueprints, templates, 3/4/5-views and drawings
interesting 11.15.09
- http://☃.net
- The Big Pictr: Photos from flickr in the style of The Big Picture – by Trevor Hartsell
- 1080p HD video is coming to YouTube
- Asteroid scrapes past Earth just 8,700miles away – with only 15 hours warning
- EPA Study Reveals Widespread Contamination of Fish in U.S. Lakes and Reservoirs
- Christian Swinehart: CYOA – Visualization of the patterns & paths in Choose Your Own Adventure books
- Avatars Can Surreptitiously And Negatively Affect User In Video Games, Virtual Worlds
- Twitter fave Shit My Dad Says (@ shitmydadsays) heads to TV – ‘Will & Grace’ team on board to produce family comedy
- Zoink Games: Wiiwaa – interactive Wii game using Wiimote stuffed inside plushie toy
interesting 11.8.09
- The Big Picture: Martian landscapes – photos from the HiRISE camera on board NASA’s MRO
- ‘Miracle fruit’ turns sour things sweet
- Sony demos Interactive Communication Unit (ICU) – game controller to track motion and emotion
- How your brain sees virtual you
- DARPA Network Challenge: a competition utilizing the Internet & social networking – $40,000 cash prize to the 1st entrant to submit the latitude & longitude of all 10 balloons
- TED Talks: Paul Debevec explains the technology behind Digital Emily, a photo-real digital face [video]
- AIDA: Affective Intelligent Driving Agent: platform comprising of a personal robot & an intelligent navigation system – collaboration between Volkswagen & MIT
- IMFDB: The Internet Movie Firearms Database – find which guns were featured in movies, TV, & video games
- The Botany of Desire: Based on the book by Michael Pollan [PBS documentary]
interesting 10.11.09
- Art:21: Compassion – documentary featuring artists William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, & Carrie Mae Weems [watch online]
- Haruyama Trading Co. has developed a menswear suit that it claims protects the wearer from H1N1 swine flu
- RIP Irving Penn, Legendary Photographer
- Internet Eyes: Monitor CCTV cameras from home & win cash rewards by spotting crimes in progress – surveillance game
- University of Tsukuba Biological Cybernetics Lab developing a robot hand system that can imitate the dexterous motions of humans using image recognition and motion tracking
- PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage – composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels, using online image search
- David Spriggs – art installations
- Adobe Labs – Adobe Flash Professional CS5: Applications for iPhone
interesting 9.27.09
- Videogames now outperform Hollywood movies
- YDreams: Flyar – Twitter visualization screensaver using augmented reality & gesture interaction
- Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Introduces Room for PSP – online community service, avatar based social network
- The Last Guardian: Interview with Team ICO Director/Game Designer Fumito Ueda & New Video
- Stress: Portrait of a Killer » National Geographic Documentary with Robert Sapolsky (Stanford University)
- Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School
- Bionic Eye: augmented reality iPhone 3GS application
- Ekovaruhuset Brings Down the House (of Organic) at The GreenShows
- Mojito shoe by architect Julian Hakes – minimal single piece design with no foot plate
- mybiennialisbetterthanyours – online project curated by Tolga Taluy for the Xth Biennale de Lyon
- ESA: Wearable Augmented Reality (WEAR) – Voice controlled head-mounted display helps astronauts make sense of space
- The Yes Men: “WE’RE SCREWED”: MEDIA HEIST BLANKETS CITY WITH “SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST – Tabloid Tells Truth About Climate Change and How It Will Affect City, World
- Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers: Trope – generative music application for iPhone/iPod Touch
- Scientist Ray Kurzweil claims humans could become immortal in as little as 20 years
interesting 9.20.09
- A History of the Sky: A dynamic time-lapse visualization of the sky for an entire year, by Ken Murphy
- metaio to launch junaio – mobile augmented reality platform [press release]
- Bringing its Augmented Reality to Mobile Applications, Total Immersion Partners with Smartphones App provider INT13
- Flickr launches Galleries: Unleash your inner curator
- Interview: Deb Sokolow – artist creates a vertiginous world of invented narratives
- Virtual Currency is #1 Purchase According to Landmark Digital Goods Buyers and Sellers Study Conducted by VGMarket and PlaySpan
- Scientists find virtual reality helps relieve pain
- ThatsMyFace – See your face in 3D & Buy gifts with personalized faces
interesting 9.6.09
- Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens: A new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs promises bionic eyesight
- Sony Shows PlayStation Home Virtual Pet at CEDEC
- Thomas Doyle: artwork – intricate worlds sculpted in miniature
- HealthMap: Outbreaks Near Me – free iPhone app for current disease outbreak info in your neighborhood, including H1N1
- Europe begins ban on the sale of incandescent bulbs
- Museum of Animal Perspectives (M.A.P.) – Collection of Remotely Sensed Wildlife Imagery
- Canon unveils EOS 7D high-end digital SLR
- The Walt Disney Company acquires Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion
interesting 8.23.09
- Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains
- Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging
- Walmart: Your Zone in 3D – augmented reality
- PPC Silverscreen: AVATAR Day in Playstation Home
- The Colony: Volunteers enter experimental post-apocalyptic world to try to survive & rebuild after a global disaster
- James Cameron’s AVATAR [trailer]
- Personas: Shows you how the Internet sees you – installation by Aaron Zinman in MIT’s Metropath(ologies) exhibit
- Layar Augmented Reality Browser Announces Global Launch
- The Real Superhumans and the Quest for the Future Fantastic [documentary]
interesting 6.28.09
- John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner [video]
- Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn’t Age – 16 year old Brooke Greenberg remains a toddler
- Another Perfect World: virtual worlds documentary – Second Life, Lineage, Eve Online, etc
- RIP Michael Jackson
- The New York Times: New York City Homicides Map (2003-2009)
- Ideas worth taking credit for. The TED augmented reality hoax.
- The Big Picture: A troubled week in Iran
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