Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs: combine many feeds into one, then sort, filter and translate it. geocode your favorite feeds and browse the items on an interactive map. power widgets/badges on your web site. grab the output of any Pipes as RSS, JSON, KML, and other formats.
2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar Presentation – Behind the Scenes |
you can find more Pictures from our 3D Supporters: http://www.glarestudios.de/html/fifa2022.html who once again did a great job in visualizing the breathtaking stadia and lots of other stuff in the way they always do – AMAZING!live.stereolize.com.
Germany’s first Augmented Reality music video
via Saint Aside | Videos.
Check-ins have given consumers a glimpse of the power of location and the deals they unlock. But there’s another world awaiting as mobile users learn to appreciate the era of “persistent location,” in which a user’s location is passively used to deliver relevant information. That’s the term used by Xtify CEO Josh Rochlin, whose company has built a geo-messaging platform that allows companies and brands to target their customers with location-specific messages.
via Beyond the Check-In, the Era of Persistent Location Beckons: Tech News «.
The four ways ideas are most likely to make the transition from concept to product or service: Assignment, Sponsorship, Adoption, Spinout. When you think about your innovation process you need to consider how your organization prefers to convert ideas and how executives prefer to get involved. Let’s examine each briefly.
via Blogging Innovation » Four Ways Ideas are Selected for Implementation.
With a combined app count that exceeds about 400,000 in the app stores of Apple & Android, why would anyone want to use mobile web apps? Openness and a level playground are the two things that keep web developers going.It might be in its infancy, but HTML5 is the next 500 pound Guerrilla and much more as far as Internet is concerned. With features like plugin-less video playback, offline storage, geo location etc., HTML5 is on the verge of giving walled gardens like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Cocoa a good run for their money. After the jump, we have compiled a list of HTML5 web apps developed for accessing from your smartphones.
via 30 Incredibly Useful & Fun HTML5 Mobile Apps | Web.AppStorm.
As parts of the HTML5 spec is slowly making its way from working draft to W3C recommendation and browser implementations are getting more and more solid –
the urge to make use of these new features grows strong.
About a month ago, there was an interesting article about using genetic algorithms to “evolve” images. Roger Alsing had made a small program and put it to the test by letting it make a very good approximation of the Mona Lisa with 50 layered, semi-transparent polygons. I figured I’d try to do something similar with JavaScript and Canvas.
via Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas – Nihilogic.
Connecting Real Life and the Digital WorldScan Tags from your mobile phone for instant access to information, websites, videos, reviews, and more.Sign in to Tag Manager to create or edit your Tags, manage Categories and view Reports.
via Microsoft Tag – Connecting Real Life and the Digital World using Mobile Barcodes!.
The next generation TUIO 2.0 specification is intended to cover a much wider scope of tangible user interfaces and interactive surfaces. The present TUIO 1.1 protocol has been mainly used for multi-touch interfaces, but also defines the basic component descriptors for tagged and untagged physical objects. TUIO2 extends these existing component descriptors with several attributes, and also defines new descriptors for additional interface component types within an improved message syntax. Continue reading ….
04.01.2010 read past news in the archive
via TUIO.
Verizon FiOS TV said Wednesday that it will offer “Showtime Sports Interactive“–which it bills as “the first nationwide, high-definition interactive television application using the Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format” -
Owners of laptops and mobile devices equipped with built-in accelerometers that can tell which way is down will now benefit of the new Firefox 3.6 that can recognize your screen orientation and adapt accordingly. This new feature was announced by Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard.
via New Orientation-Aware Firefox 3.6. Accelerometer Is a Must! – SoftSailor.
Take a look at the newest Tech Game consoleSAN FRANCISCO–Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger.
Its too early to tell how much danger, of course, but a start-up called OnLive announced a brand-new game distribution system Monday night that, if it works as planned, could change the games game forever.
OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system–seven years in the works–that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others, all at the same time as those titles are released into retail channels. The system is designed to allow players to stream on-demand games at the highest quality onto any Intel-based Mac or PC running XP or Vista, regardless of how powerful the computer.
The system will also stream games directly to a TV via a small plug-in device, and players can use a custom wireless controller as well as VoIP headsets in conjunction with it.
With so many companies focusing more intensely than ever on innovation, why are so few seeing results?
Adam Richardson, creative director at the award-winning global innovation firm frog design, gets to the bottom of this dilemma in his new book, Innovation X. Richardson argues that companies’ efforts to innovate are being thwarted by “X-Problems,” a new class of 21st century challenges that defy conventional planning. But Richardson has hope. If used in the right way, these problems can present massive innovation opportunities.
via Innovation X: Why a Company’s Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage – Adam Richardson.
Whenever I meet someone who finds out that I work on the directions team for Google Maps, the first question I'm asked is often “So when's Google Maps going to add biking directions?” We're big biking fans too, so we've been itching to give you a concrete answer. I don't want to keep the good news a secret any longer, so the answer is: right now!
via Official Google Blog: Biking directions added to Google Maps.
The CLOUD proposes an entirely new form of observation deck, connecting visitors to both the whole of London and the whole of the world, immersing them in euphoric gusts of weather and digital data. Each individual footstep on the ascent to the CLOUD participates in a vast collective energy-harvesting effort. Everyone around the world can contribute to the Cloud – whether by visiting or by sponsoring an LED, helping to keep the London lamp aflame.
The ability to innovate faster and in new ways will always be critical to achieving high performance. But given the new dynamics of a fast-changing and less predictable global economy, a number of competitive assumptions are changing. One of the most important changes: The new business environment will favor those companies able to execute innovations faster, and to move their organizations forward more nimbly.
The 2011 conference will be held in stunning Boulder, Colorado; Boulder boasts gorgeous scenery, outdoor adventures, and a vibrant design community.
A call for participation will be posted in the summer of 2010. Registration is open now, though – be sure to register early, as the conference sold out in 2010!
IxDA Interaction ’11 | Boulder from Cruz Dann Productions on Vimeo.
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA: London and San Francisco, 15 February 2010 – The Symbian Foundation today unveiled the Symbian^3 S^3 platform, the first entirely open source release following the platform’s transition to an open source license on 4 February, 2010, which was the largest of its kind in history.
via Symbian announces Symbian^3 and immediately gives it away | Symbian.
It offers a new perspective, new tools and ideas on how to address strategic issues for enabling new growth by developing fresh answers to the classic questions in strategy: what business are you in? who is your customer? and how to organize to fulfill customers’ needs?
The complete guide can be downloaded here.
Quantifying the economic impact of innovation has turned out to be surprisingly difficult. Bill, astrophysicist Lowell Wood, and Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft and founder of Intellectual Ventures, talk about how innovation is overlooked in economic statistics.
via Bill Gates – Conversations – The Failure to Measure Innovation – The Gates Notes.
ring°wall from SENSORY-MINDS on Vimeo.
SENSORY-MINDS is a start-up team of well experienced enthusiasts envisioning the next generation of computing.Working and researching in the field of Natural User Interfaces we develop innovative solutions for our customers that fascinate their users and engage and involve their clients.
Theoretically, HTML5 will reduce reliance on proprietary plug-ins, such as Adobe Flash. This means devices that may not support Flash–such as Safari for the iPhone–will be able to leverage the functionality of HTML5, enabling the creation of applications that will run on more devices. HTML5 also supports the following features: Offline data storage, meaning users can access web sites developed in it without being connected to the internet Drag and drop functionality Document editing i.e. Google Docs Built-in video Geolocation – the ability to identify the real-world location of a computer on the Internet
via Entrepreneur.com Daily Dose – Understanding Html5 And Why It Matters.
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment.The SOE's combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak platform is a complete application development and execution environment that redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional GUIs. Its idiom of spatial immediacy and information responsive to real-world geometry enables a necessary new kind of work: data-intensive, embodied, real-time, predicated on universal human expertise.
This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG.
The Interface
Its different. The face of Windows Phone 7 is not a rectangular grid of thumbnail-sized glossy-looking icons, arranged in a pattern of 4×4 or so, like basically every other phone. No, instead, an oversized set of bright, superflat squares fill the screen. The pop of the primary colors and exaggerated flatness produces a kind of cutting-edge crispness that feels both incredibly modern and playful. Text is big, and beautiful. The result is a feat no phone has performed before: Making the iPhone's interface feel staid.
via Windows Phone 7 Series: Everything Is Different Now – Windows phone 7 – Gizmodo.
Right about now at Mobile World Congress, Adobe is officially announcing Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR for Android. I truly believe these technologies will redefine the mobile experience. Kevin Hoyt recorded a great video overview showing some demos on the Motorola Droid, which I have embedded below. I have also been testing a selection of mobile Flash sites, created by key partners like YouTube and ESPN, and I am very excited about the future of Flash in the mobile browser.
via The Flash Blog » Adobe announces Flash Player and AIR for Android.
Someone at Google apparently took pity on the poor users who can only explore Google Earth on their laptops. Jason Holt used his 20 percent project time to create a wraparound view of a modified Google Earth engine, and splashed it across 8 LCD screens in an immersive viewing booth. The result provides a view not unlike that from a starship's bridge, and allows users to seamlessly explore a virtual environment of the Earth, moon, and Mars — an experience that Google has dubbed “Liquid Galaxy.”
Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to QuickTime and Flash automatically, without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many, many browsers and platforms.
YouTube – Objectified trailer.
A peek at the upcoming design documentary “Objectified”, by Gary Hustwit, the director of “Helvetica”. The trailer features the voices of Jonathan Ive, Andrew Blauvelt, Marc Newson, and Karim Rashid. The song is “I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool” by El Ten Eleven.
Objectified premieres at film festivals and events worldwide starting this March, more info here: http://www.objectifiedfilm.com
Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?
As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design. (Sometimes they are referred as the ‘Ten commandments’.)
Here they are.
Designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides to show — spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question “Why design?” Listen carefully for one perfect mantra for all of us, genius or not.
News Highlights
* At the National Retail Federation Convention, Intel showed an interactive, 7-foot-6-inch Intel® Intelligent Digital Signage Concept with an LCD display and holographic glass to demonstrate how technology can enhance the retail customer experience with a multi-touch, multi-user interface.
* Concept demonstrates how digital signage technology can provide retailers with a competitive advantage, and how it can impact customer loyalty by providing targeted, interactive content to consumers.
* Optimized digital signage solutions based on the Intel® Core™ i7 processor and Windows 7-based Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2011* platform aim to better standardize a fragmented market.
Digital signage is appearing everywhere—in airports, banks, retail stores, and hospitals—ushering in a new era of in-store and on-site advertising and communications. The adoption of digital signage is expected to increase, prompted by higher impact, lower cost solutions that will draw in larger numbers of advertisers and businesses.
IDENT’s GestIC technology is a gesture-based interface system and they’re showing off by describing a cube of some sort that allows you to turn, twist, and pinch your data in 3D. Each side will have different functions and you can access messages and the web just by slipping and sliding on the surface.
Widget Realm, a company that offers content publishing services for desktop apps, mobile devices and connected TV sets, on Tuesday launched its “Broadcast-It-Yourself” service for Internet-connected devices running the Yahoo! Widget Engine. According to the company, the new service will enable any developer to easily create and distribute TV widgets to millions of connected TV's and other connected devices. “Yahoo! and Widget Realm are going to enable an explosion of interactive television content,” Widget Realm CEO, Brian Powell, said in a prepared statement. “We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Widget Engine to help rapidly expand content for the new technology. In just a few minutes, anyone can create their own television interface and distribute their content to the millions of Internet-connected TV's around the world.”
Daniel Kraft of the Singularity University discusses some of the medical technologies on the horizon. He talks about sub-$1000 genomes, regenerative medicine and the end of baldness among others. How will providers and patients discuss these complicated technologies and how can design create the tools to facilitate such coversations?
via Healthcare Innovation by Design – The Horizon of Healthcare Technology.
As physicians experience mounting pressure to contain costs and improve outcomes while their patient loads increase, many are finding that patients can be the most cost-effective and valuable tools to help them do their jobs.
The concept of participatory medicine, where patients take a more active role in their care, can enhance the physician-patient relationship and allow physicians and patients to bring their own expertise and knowledge to the table to produce the best outcomes.
Some languages are more precise than others. German’s word for disappointment, “Enttäuschung,” for example, literally translates as “disillusion” and thus implies that the prerequisite of any disappointment is excessive (and false!) expectation. As if that needed any further evidence, Apple’s iPad presentation and President Obama’s first State of the Union address last Wednesday marked the preliminary culmination of an obvious trend: disappointment as a widespread sentiment and cultural subtext at the dawn of this young decade. Both Apple and Obama are among the most powerful brands of our time and occupy that vexing space between hype and hope in the public mind. Both have zealous fans and followers, and enjoy an almost religious admiration. And both have now suffered a very public deflation, a humiliating erosion of their once unflappable appeal of invincibility, a painful rejection of love.
via The Grand Disappointment: Apple and Obama after Hype and Hope | Blog | design mind.
As it stands the Apple tablet will: be a giant iPod Touch, run existing iPhone apps on OS X, iPhone OS, or a new OS altogether, have a tactile keyboard and a hardware add-on almost as good as a physical one, include a built-in web cam, support 3D navigation, get a docking station, serve as an alternative media viewing platform and e-book reader, have a 10″ or 7″ screen, support Flash, be named iSlate, iGuide, or iPad, cost $600, $800, or $1000, and have Verizon and/or AT&T as telecommunications partner with a $60 per month two year contract. The list goes on.
via Why the Idea of the Apple Tablet May Be Better Than the Reality.
Wireless health hits the big stage at CES International 2010.
January 8, 2010
As noted in coverage by the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Eric Topol's live demonstration of digital medical devices like GE's handheld ultrasound Vscan was a real cause for optimism. “Consumers have been concerned about the economic crisis” in medicine, Topol said. “But we can innovate out of that.”. Watch Dr. Eric J. Topol highlight a variety of mhealth solutions, including the first live demo of GE’s Vscan technology. It's no wonder consumers will have a tremendous impact on transforming healthcare..
Some would argue that companies innovate to achieve a heightened competitive advantage, streamline the organization, or create intellectual property – including patents, trademarks and other protected property – that create value in the portfolio.
Many reasons and rationales can be argued for the pursuit of innovation. Yet no purpose for or result from innovation can be more compelling than Value Creation. This metric is the ultimate measure of return on investment when measuring innovation's role in creating value.
Later this week, Steve Jobs, the black-clad begetter of the iPod, iMac and iPhone, and arguably the coolest man in the history of circuitry, will launch a product so new and exciting that a better word than “revolutionary” will be needed to describe how revolutionary it is.
Given that Steve's company, Apple Inc, attaches a particular virtue to not telling potential customers what it has in the works, the precise nature of the new gizmo remains mysterious. But the froth of expectation bubbling up in the tech world largely centres on it being a tablet-sized computer that will browse the internet, play games, movies and music, make phone calls, secure the future of the written word, reshape the way we live, work and think, keep the rain off, and double up as a chopping board. All this for a launch price of $900 (£560), which includes the kudos of being the first to whip one out of your shoulder bag.
AT&T Labs Research is one of the world’s premier research institutions, dedicated to advancing the science and technology of communications and information and to creating innovative services founded on these advancements.
Grounded in a research heritage that spans decades, our unique culture values the creative drive of researchers who are both leaders in their scientific and engineering communities and inventors and innovators of new technologies that fullfill our mission — to support AT&T's continuous efforts to improve our network, services, and customer's experience.
The Windows Azure platform offers a flexible, familiar environment for developers to create cloud applications and services. With Windows Azure, you can shorten your time to market and adapt as demand for your service grows.Windows Azure offers a platform that is easily implemented alongside your current environment.- Windows Azure: operating system as a service- Microsoft SQL Azure: fully relational database in the cloud- Windows Azure platform AppFabric: makes it simpler to connect cloud and on-premises applicationsWindows Azure is now commercially available. Usage during the month of January 2010 will be at no charge. We will begin charging customers on February 1st, 2010.
In December 2009, Patently Apple presented one of Apple's most exciting patents of the year which took us into the futuristic world OS X-3D. The patent presented us with a view of a sophisticated head tracking system that would allow the user to view different angles of a graphic, simulation model or even a chart using Apple's iWork based 'Numbers' application. Then last week in a posted report covering Intel's CES Keynote 2010, I presented the possibility that Apple would likely update their iLife Application suite applications iPhoto and iMovie in concert with the release of Apple's futuristic OS. The work at Intel's labs definitely sparked that idea, specifically in creating Avatars using iMovie. Today, I was presented with two simulations of what Apple's futuristic OS could look like working with medical and engineering applications. The simulations were done on an iMac and I think that you'll find them to be absolutely fascinating. As long as you know that they're simulations and not secret tests that I've discovered, we're okay with a little fun on a Friday: Check it out!
via Simulation: Using OS X 3D in Medical & Engineering Applications – Patently Apple.
A short video of Intel’s interactive cube from their booth at CES 2010 in Las Vegas. This cube pulls in content from various social applications and let’s you see a real time stream of content from across the world. You can touch any cube to zoom in on that particular piece of content.
This is a quick look at the Interactive Collaborative Environment I've built at Edinburgh Napier University.A little detail…It has multiple touch enabled surfaces including four 42″ HD dual touch screens, one 46″ HD multitouch screen and a 108″ multitouch table. The software is a mix of Windows 7, OS X and Linux but the table runs PyMT. The walls are digitally augmented whiteboards which capture anything written anywhere. This is a functioning meeting room as well as a research platform for novel UI and UX. The room will officially open it's door in Jan 2010.
Razorfone Interactive Retail Experience from Razorfish – Emerging Experiences on Vimeo.
Customers are being faced with increasingly complex buying decisions, especially when it comes to technology and services. As a result, increased pressure is being placed on store associates to provide knowledgeable service to customers. Our Emerging Experiences team used this opportunity to develop a solution to demonstrate how an immersive interactive experience can assist customers and store associates with complex buying decisions in a retail setting.
via Razorfone: Simplifying Buying Decisions in Retail – Razorfish + Emerging Experiences.
The Yahoo! Widget Engine platform is available in a variety of consumer electronic devices, including flat panel TVs from Samsung®, Sony®, LG Electronics®, and VIZIO®, with others coming soon! With Yahoo! TV Widgets, you can deliver new, interactive movie, TV show, and web experiences to millions of TV owners in North America, Europe, and Asia. For example, today TV Widget users can get their favorite TV show or movie on demand, check the latest news on Yahoo!, sports scores on USA Today, shop on eBay or catch up with their friends on Facebook® or Twitter®.
It’s Nokia Capital Market Day again which means that the boys from Espoo are fawning over investors and giving them a reason to stick around in 2010. And you know what? It sure sounds promising for gadget nerds. Why the optimism? Easy: Nokia is hell-bent on redefining the user experience of its Symbian devices. To quote CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, “In 2010, we will drive user experience improvements, and the progress we make will take the Symbian user interface to a new level.” To bolster this proclamation, the very first bullet point listed under Nokia's Devices and Services operational priorities is “improve our user experience” — something that would thrill us to no end if it happens.
via Nokia promises to take “Symbian user interface to a new level” in 2010, Maemo 6 in 2H — Engadget.
Netflix is set to announce today that its streaming video service will launch on the Nintendo Wii games console this spring, providing it with distribution in a potential 26 million additional US homes note: the Wii is currently the most popular games console in the US. The company has previously secured distribution deals for the service through the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 games consoles, as well as through Roku OTT set-tops, TiVo DVR's and a number of other devices and platforms.
via Netflix to Offer Streaming Video on the Nintendo Wii | InteractiveTV Today.
NEW YORK, NY — Jan. 11, 2010 — Zodiac Interactive, an Emmy award–winning developer of software for interactive television, announced today the next version of its iTV framework, PowerUp 2.5™, a cross–platform software that unifies and enables advanced iTV applications across multiple set–tops, including legacy boxes. The latest iteration of Zodiac’s core framework, PowerUp 2.5, allows mobile and internet devices and applications to integrate and work directly with the set–top.
Yahoo! last week announced 1) new distribution partnerships for its Yahoo! Widget Engine platform; 2) the release of a Widget Development Kit (WDK); and 3) new content partnerships for the widget platform. “Consumers are in love with their televisions, watching more TV, and demanding Internet connectivity to further enhance their viewing experience,” Arlo Rose, senior director of Yahoo! Connected TV, said in a prepared statement. “Yahoo! is leading the connected TV market by bringing a rich variety of Internet content and services to the living room–incorporating video-on-demand, social networks, games, online shopping, and more–making it easy for consumers to personalize their TV viewing experience.”
MyFord Touch In-Car Interface
In an impressive keynote yesterday opening CES, Ford announced their radically revised new instrument panels for driving in a digital world. Completely integrating the car’s interface with other devices and services, the brand will introduce the system, called MyFord, not just in their high-end vehicles but across the line starting with the 2011 MyTouch Lincoln MKX (which will be shown at next week’s Detroit Auto Show) and the Ford Edge models. The 2012 Ford Focus will be the next car to feature MyTouch, and Ford intends to roll it out to 80% of their models over the next five years. The best news is that MyTouch will be a standard feature with two upgradable versions; the dual instrument panel screens and 8″ touch screen represent the top end).
Macrovision Becomes Rovi, Steps Into Liquid
The company formerly known as Macrovision, in an effort to rebrand itself for the mashup world of social media, over-the-top video and pay TV, relaunched today as Rovi. The new company, whose shares will trade under the symbol ROVI on the Nasdaq, will attempt to tie together its string of acquisitions over the past few years and refashion itself as a one-stop software shop for on-screen guides in the new world of integrated media.
Yahoo! expands Web-connected TV push
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Yahoo! announced partnerships with television and other device manufacturers on Thursday as the Internet company joins others seeking to jump from the computer to the TV screen.
“Consumers are in love with their televisions, watching more TV, and demanding Internet connectivity to further enhance their viewing experience,” said Arlo Rose, senior director of Yahoo! Connected TV.
Yahoo! said the online programs known as “widgets” for the increasing number of Web-capable televisions would be embedded in more models and include video on demand, social networks, games and online shopping.
Mediaroom 2.0 is scheduled to be available for operators to start testing beginning next month. Mediaroom 2.0 can be deployed by operators as their entertainment cloud powering the delivery of a complete television service, including cloud digital video recording (DVR), on-demand features, interactive applications, and access to both operator-hosted content and externally hosted content such as Internet TV. The operators' service can be enjoyed by their subscribers on multiple screens including the TV (with Mediaroom set-top box), Windows Media Center, Web browsers (for Windows-based PCs and Macs), Xbox 360 and compatible smartphones.
TEI’10 is the fourth international conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. It is being held January 25-27, 2010 at the MIT Media Lab.
The work presented at TEI addresses HCI issues, design, interactive art, user experience, tools and technologies, with a strong focus on how computing can finally bridge atoms and bits into cohesive interactive systems. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchanging ideas and presenting innovative work through talks, interactive exhibits, demos, hands-on studios, posters, art installations and performances.
To learn more about submitting work to TEI’10, please see participation.
TEI is sponsored by the ACM SIGCHI
Interactive marketing is hardly new, but in creating a digital showcase for its most famous product, Burberry was quickly seen as a Web leader among fashion houses. “The field was wide open for someone to be number one,” said Lucian James, founder of Agenda Inc., a Paris-based brand consulting firm. “You couldn’t have guessed that Burberry would be it.”
Ford is making a serious bid for geeks’ business. Scott Monty, the auto company’s Internet-famous social media head, wrote to us tonight with some of the most exciting car-related news an Internet-dependent nerd could wish for.
The next generation of Ford’s SYNC-enabled vehicles will not only be rolling communications and entertainment systems. They’ll also be rolling WiFi hotspots. Passengers will be able to connect to the Internet anywhere, anytime. Our crystal ball is showing a lot more Ford-enabled conference roadtrips.
This isn’t of course exactly what an Apple tablet (or iSlate) might look like, but it gives you an idea of one application type that an Apple device might offer, and it shows the further disruption coming to the book, magazine, newspaper, and television industries.
by Braden Kelley
Blogging Innovation: Apple Tablet Sneak Preview – Latest innovation articles, videos, and insights.
Boxee Beta is scheduled to be opened up to the public on January 7th at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Over the next four weeks, the company plans to release invitations to users who signed up for its early access list and then to other Boxee Alpha users.
Boxee Beta, New Astro-Designed, D-Link-Manufactured Boxee Box Unveiled (Screenshots and Photos)
According to the Star Ledger report, AT&T’s scientists have been developing prototype connected health products for the past year, in an effort to make everyday household items “part of the network cloud.” As we reported earlier in the year, Miller and his team want to connect thermometers, scales, blood pressure cuffs and other “old technology” along with wireless radios to leverage WiFi networks and Bluetooth interoperability for connected medical devices.
There’s been a lot of negative talk about Flash AR executions lately, and it’s deserved. Too many brands are using development houses that have no more understanding of the FLARToolkit than throwing a 3D model on a marker, let alone how to use it for successful product promotion.
Why Flash is the Future of Augmented Reality (Including Mobile).
Impressive and stylish projections on buildings, a renewing way of communicating.For those who want to carry out a message in a striking and visually attractive way with guaranteed exposure: 3D Projection on buildings is the communication tool of 2009, and what an impact!
Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.
SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.
Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model – NYTimes.com.
Next Firmware Update (v3.10) Enables PlayStation 3 system Gamers to Share Their Experiences with Friends on Facebook, Including Trophies Won In-Game, PlayStation(R)Network Game Purchases, and Game Events
via Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.
The L-shaped multi touch table is equipped with four computers each operating one of the four screens embedded in the table top.
(CNN) — What's the first thing that goes through your mind when someone says the word “data”?
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, recently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
via Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman.
[itvt] can today reveal the winners of the Mediaroom Application Contest that Microsoft held at its 3rd Annual Mediaroom Developers Conference last month (note: Mediaroom is Microsoft's IPTV platform, which the company says has now been deployed in over 4 million subscriber households worldwide, by a customer base that includes AT&T, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Swisscom and Portugal Telecom, among others).
via Exclusive: Winners of Microsoft’s Mediaroom Application Contest Revealed | InteractiveTV Today.
An open platform for interactive television
FiOS TV enables next-generation interactive content and applications.via Verizon Developer Community.
The first three TV of Tomorrow Shows were praised by sponsors, speakers, exhibitors and attendees not only as true experts’ conferences that attracted a veritable “who’s who” of the interactive TV industry, but as offering a thoroughly unique and enjoyable experience. We are working hard to ensure that the TV of Tomorrow Show 2010–which is already attracting an array of high-powered speakers and which will feature a line-up of fascinating entertainments–is even better.
Over the past 18 months, a great debate has consumed our industry: Are digital agencies poised to sit at the head of the advertising table? Depending on whom you ask and what you read, the answer seems to flip flop — with a majority of people still having reservations and making claims that digital agencies aren’t ready to lead.
The future of gaming. This announcement must scare console manufacturers. And rightly so. OnLive will provide a direct connection to the latest games regardless of any hardware bias or console ownership.
via MTV Sticky.
MyAlltop enables you to create a “personal, online magazine rack” of your favorite websites and blogs. You can create a personal collection from over 32,000 information sources—
Imagine nature’s most elegant ideas organized by design and engineering function, so you can enter “filter salt from water” and see how mangroves, penguins, and shorebirds desalinate without fossil fuels.
Now imagine you can meet the people who have studied these organisms, and together you can create the next great bio-inspired solution.
Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul wants to know, “Can a [truly open smartphone] be done?” But the real question is, “Should we care?”
The team managed to pull the web application together in time for launch, and the guide was a smashing success. Over the course of SXSW, sxsw.razorfish.com was visited by 2,806 people who spent an average of 10 minutes each on the site, typically viewed about 8 pages, and often came back for second and third visits. The site attracted a large amount of buzz on Twitter and was praised as the go-to guide for the conference.
Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
via Yahoo Pipes
Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information.
And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for.
via 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot.
A vision driven interactive stand for Brandwidth and Toyota IQ. The stand is touring shopping centers in the UK and currently at the Westfield Shopping center in London.by Memo Akten and Working with Seeper pretty amazing work
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