February 17, 2010Last week at TED Wired and Adobe unveiled the first glimpse of the Wired Reader on its debut platform, the iPad. Wired’s editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson, breaks down the presentation:
“What Jeremy and I showed was not a CGI demo or concept — it was running live code with real copy. The content was created [...]
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February 17, 2010Google’s Liquid Galaxy is engineer Jason Holt’s 20% time project, a wraparound view of 8 LCD screens providing a truly immersive experience of Google Earth and Street View.
We [Mashable] wrote about Google’s Liquid Galaxy project back in December, one of the more interesting 20% projects in which [...]
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January 10, 2010With over a billion users, today’s Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime research focus of STI International and the Service Web 3.0 project. In order to explain, promote, and attract new contributors, we created a video to be viewed by stakeholders, who may be non-experts, in a new [...]
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January 09, 2010See the innovation journey of Project Natal, coming Holiday 2010.
You Are the Controller.
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun — the only experience needed is [...]
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January 09, 2010We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we’re interested in. That’s why we are presenting here phenomenal videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different events. We have focused on current content but have included some [...]
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December 17, 2009I’ve been meaning to get down to the nitty-gritty of HTML 5 and write a post about it for months now.
HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) started work on the specification in June 2004 under the name Web [...]
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December 07, 2009Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview. [...]
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December 03, 2009At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. [...]
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November 24, 2009TIME Magazine’s The 50 Best Inventions of 2009
From a rocket of the future to a $10 million lightbulb, here are TIME’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year
Full List of The Best Inventions
1. The Best Invention of the Year: NASA’s Ares Rockets [...]
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November 11, 2009In the last year Boxee has gone after the media center world with a vengeance. What’s surprising is that they’ve been quite successful while remaining in just an alpha release. That is, until December 7th, when Boxee rolls out an official beta release. The new version promises several enhancements like; a new user interface, better navigation, search functionality for TV shows and movies [...]
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