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emergentfutures: Stylish shirt doesn’t need washing or ironing...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:43:15 +0200

Stylish shirt doesn’t need washing or ironing for 100 days

Wool & Prince has developed a smart shirt that doesn’t crease or smell even after 100 days of wear.

Full Story: Springwise

WiSee: Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:47:54 +0200

WiSee: Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home.

University of Washington computer scientists have developed gesture-recognition technology that brings this a step closer to reality. Researchers have shown it’s possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the human body or cameras.

Project page: http://wisee.cs.washington.edu

Google Faces is a an independent searching agent created...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:23 +0200

Google Faces is a an independent searching agent created in openFrameworks that hovers the world to spot all the faces that are hidden on earth. The applications searches through one satellite image after the other, in order to feed the face detection algorithm with landscape samples. Once the agent has completed the world search, it switches to the next zoom level and starts all over again.

futuramb: futuretechreport: The future of Google...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:45:36 +0200

futuramb:

futuretechreport:

The future of Google Glass?

Digital creative agency Playground knows that Glass is in its early days, but they imagine a future in which Glass helps with navigation, shopping, hobbies and much more. And according to Playground, “All of our examples are actually possible right now. Smartphones (batteries not included) have enough raw processing power to run this software today. If only current batteries were ten times more efficient and there was a robust native hardware API for Glass. Well, it’s coming. Sooner than we think.”

via the content brief

Interesting to get some concrete scenarios on possible uses of Google Glass.

Twine review: the little blue box that hacks the world around...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:44:32 +0200

Twine review: the little blue box that hacks the world around you

It’s hard to remember life before we were bombarded with notifications throughout the day on all manner of devices, for everything from Twitter replies to earthquake alerts in Japan. With very few exceptions, though, these all have one limiting factor in common: you’re relying on someone else’s software to interpret data and relay it to you. What if you could program your own notifications from objects or conditions in your physical environment, set to tell you anything you want to know, when you need to know it?

That’s the proposition offered by Supermechanical’s Twine, a small turquoise box crammed with sensors. Launched on Kickstarter last year, it takes standard accelerometers, thermometers, and other sensors, and fits them into an ambitious package that promises to be a lot easier to set up than your average Arduino-powered DIY assembly. How does Twine work? Does it even work at all? Will it change your life? Let’s find out.

bit.code Mechanical installation from 2009 is a physical 1-bit...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:42:00 +0200

bit.code

Mechanical installation from 2009 is a physical 1-bit glitch display - video embedded below:

BIT.CODE plays with the re-encoding of information and the recognizability of signs. It works with the infinite possibilities for combination of a finite number of bits, the smallest units of information.
The bits appear as black and white elements on the individual segments of the string. Each string is coded with the same bit pattern, which is reminiscent of Morse code. If the strings are moved in parallel, words seemingly appear (for a certain period of time) from ‘out of nowhere’ and disappear again. The perceived information causes a short opportunity for pause, a moment of serenity, of clarity – before the incessant flow of constellations, motions and changes starts anew.

Link

Twitter #Music for iPhone and web coming later today After a...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:40:38 +0200

Twitter #Music for iPhone and web coming later today

After a week of teasing, Twitter has unveiled Twitter #Music, its new music discovery and streaming app. The new service is focusing on a recommendation engine that pulls in trending data from across Twitter and your followers to offer up music recommendations from the vast catalogs of iTunes, Spotify, and Rdio. The app will be available on iOS starting today, but there’s no Android app quite yet. However, everyone will be able to access Twitter #Music through the browser at music.twitter.com.

Event Hologram

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:38:52 +0200

lecollagiste-channel:

Création sur mesure de projection holographique à taille réelle ou augmentée pour des présentations scéniques de vos produits, les mises en perspective et valorisation de vos évènements promotionnels ou de vos productions de spectacles vivants.

La projection permet un mix du réel et du virtuel dans le même espace et même temps.

zingy.fr/video-hologram.html

Cast: ZINGY

Tags: http://dlvr.it/3Ff387 via #LeCollagiste Channel

8bitfuture: Google Glass specs confirm, App released. Google have released the Android App for...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:03:15 +0200

8bitfuture:

Google Glass specs confirm, App released.

Google have released the Android App for their upcoming Glass device, and confirmed the specs on their website. As rumored, the device won’t have a traditional speaker for audio playback, instead using a bone conduction transducer. Battery life is said to last ‘one full day of typical use’.

The full specs:

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Google bought DNNresearch Inc, a 2012 startup to...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:37:00 +0200

Google bought DNNresearch Inc, a 2012 startup to improve imagery recognition.

Voice and image recognition are hard enough tasks when computers are asked to make direct recognition decisions like “did the user just say ‘red’?” But as anyone who as interacted with Siri, a voice dictation service like those provided by Dragon or even an object-based recognition system like Google Goggles, computers find it very hard to perform context-based recognition such as deciding between “red” and “read,” or if the blurry object seen in a video is a indeed a human face. Google’s most likely going to leverage DNN’s research into services like Google Now, that already try to deliver data to a user based on contextual pointers, its Glass systems, which already include voice recognition, its purported Siri rival, and other efforts to categorize the world.

futuristgerd: Platform Convergence and the Dawn of Trans-Media...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:38:31 +0200

futuristgerd:

Platform Convergence and the Dawn of Trans-Media Channels by Gary Hayes http://flic.kr/p/9kDBJW

Hiring Wisdom: Top 10 Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Will Quit

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:05:49 +0200

Hiring Wisdom: Top 10 Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Will Quit:

That’s the way it is!

futurejournalismproject: Twitter #music Twitter appears set to...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:28:37 +0200

futurejournalismproject:

Twitter #music

Twitter appears set to launch a music service although what it is is still under wraps. Yes, you can go to music.twitter.com (pictured above) but when you get there and try to sign in, nothing happens.

Via the BBC:

Reports suggest the new service will offer personalised recommendations on music through its own dedicated app.

US celebrity host Ryan Seacrest confirmed the existence of Twitter’s new app on Thursday via a tweet: “playing with @twitter’s new music app (yes it’s real!)… there’s a serious dance party happening at idol right now”

AllThingsD reports that the service will launch this weekend to coincide with the Coachella music festival.

oliphillips: Exploding Tape Installation by Monika Grzymala

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:30:20 +0200

oliphillips:

Exploding Tape Installation

by Monika Grzymala

emergentfutures: BP accused of rewriting environmental record...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:25:51 +0200

emergentfutures:

BP accused of rewriting environmental record on Wikipedia

A British Petroleum representative allegedly rewrote 44 percent of the oil giant’s Wikipedia page, including the environmental sections. Some Wikipedia editors are crying foul.

Full Story: CNET

Harmony Inspired by the nineteenth century mathematician Jules...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:25:48 +0200

Harmony

Inspired by the nineteenth century mathematician Jules Lissajous who invented a device to visualize sound vibrations using two tuning forks and a beam of light reflected from one mirror to the next to a screen, Manuela and Luisa have re-created and extended this experiment using recent tools. An electronic version of the device replaces the tuning forks with microphones and speakers, allowing people to sing different musical intervals, and contrast the resulting figures with the more chaotic ones generated by percussive sounds.

kateoplis: Lockheed Martin bought a version of D-Wave’s quantum...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:13:51 +0100

kateoplis:

Lockheed Martin bought a version of D-Wave’s quantum computer and plans to upgrade it to commercial scale.

“Quantum computing is so much faster than traditional computing because of the unusual properties of particles at the smallest level. Instead of the precision of ones and zeros that have been used to represent data since the earliest days of computers, quantum computing relies on the fact that subatomic particles inhabit a range of states. Different relationships among the particles may coexist, as well. Those probable states can be narrowed to determine an optimal outcome among a near-infinitude of possibilities, which allows certain types of problems to be solved rapidly.”

Lockheed Martin Harnesses Quantum Technology

Drewbot: Google Glass is Just Like the Segway – and Similarly Doomed

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:12:08 +0100

Drewbot: Google Glass is Just Like the Segway – and Similarly Doomed:

dbreunig:

The Segway was an achievement. It was nimble and simple, balanced on two wheels, and moved with barest of intents. The Segway delivered on its lofty technical goals. It was magical.

But the Segway was doomed. After summiting its technical challenges the Segway hit a brick wall of cultural…

laughingsquid: The History of the Universe in 18 Minutes

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:00:36 +0100

laughingsquid:

The History of the Universe in 18 Minutes

8bitfuture: Video: Bridge explodes in slow-motion. This is the...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:00:51 +0100

8bitfuture:

Video: Bridge explodes in slow-motion.

This is the explosive demolition of a 1930s-era steel bridge along US 281 in Marble Falls, Texas.