Audio-Powered City Map Enables Geolocated Eavesdropping
Making It The ability to hear anywhere on a map sounds even more juicy than seeing it. GPS maps are a remarkable invention on their own, but when coupled with satellite photography and tech like Google’s Street View, they enable us to see anywhere. It’s unbelievable, when you fathom . . . → Read More: Co.Design: “Audio-Powered City Map Enables Geolocated Eavesdropping”

A Mind-Blowing UI That Could Finally Make Group Work Intuitive
This experimental app from the MIT Media Lab combines gestural interfaces, augmented reality, collaborative workspaces, and general sci-fi amazingness. We’ve seen "magic-window" augmented reality interfaces, Minority Report-style gestural interfaces, and computer-vision-powered collaborative display interfaces. But what about an iPad app that combines . . . → Read More: Co.Design: “A Mind-Blowing UI That Could Finally Make Group Work Intuitive”

Animism April 26–July 28, 2012 Opening: Thursday, April 26, 7–9pm Tuesday-Saturday, 12–6pm e-flux 311 East Broadway New York, NY 10002 T: 212.619.3356
Curated by Anselm Franke With Marcel Broodthaers, Walt Disney, Jimmie Durham, Harun Farocki, Tom Holert, Luis Jacob, Ken Jacobs, Joachim Koester, Len Lye, Chris Marker, Daria Martin, Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato, . . . → Read More: Animism at e-flux

Hope for Future Cities http://designmind.frogdesign.com/articles/hope-for-future-cities.html

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Intel’s city of the future: sensors everywhere http://gigaom.com/cleantech/intels-city-of-the-future-sensors-everywhere/
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Google and Microsoft Research Teams Develop New Video Technologies Tip by Rob Scott

Researchers at Google have developed a technique called auto-directed video stabilization designed for recording video via smartphones and mobile devices with greater stability and improved image quality.
The technique mimics how motion is smoothly recorded in professional productions with dollies . . . → Read More: ETCentric:Google and Microsoft Research Teams Develop New Video Technologies

The Playable City Ideas Lab Brazil
Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 Play is a powerful thing. It can change behaviour; transform perceptions of space; reveal histories and futures; provoke meaningful responses to social and environmental challenges; and inspire audiences to participate and contribute, rather than simply observe. Inspired by projects such as HeHe’s . . . → Read More: The Playable City Ideas Lab Brazil

Using gestures to interact with surfaces that don’t have screens http://boingboing.net/2012/05/06/using-gestures-to-interact-wit.html

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iPavement Keeps You Connected (2)Apr-29-12 The iPavement takes technology to the streets, with imbedded WiFi hotspots, Bluetooth connectivity, and even apps. Developed by a Spanish tech company, and already being installed in the sidewalks of Spain, each iPavement tile is about 15 inches square, with an imbedded 5 GB . . . → Read More: iPavement

Weavrs are your alter egos crafted from the threads of the social web.
Personality Based Social-web Robots By creating Weavrs you can design the personas that you want to follow online. Using public data as their navigation, Weavrs publicly blog about how they feel, where they go and what they experience. Weavrs may be . . . → Read More: Personality Based Social-web Robots

Laser System Paints Information on the Road Ahead Cheaper green semiconductor lasers could bring a novel display technology to market. Monday, April 30, 2012   By Prachi Patel

On the road: A mock-up shows a driver’s view of Microvision’s heads-up display.  Microvision

" Head-up displays, which project visual data onto . . . → Read More: TechReview: ” Laser System Paints Information on the Road Ahead “

A South Korean Augmented-Reality Theme Park Puts Disneyland To Shame BY Lindsey Kratochwill | April 16, 2012

Courtesy of live park In the 1960s, Disneyland wowed visitors with audio-animatronics–and American theme parks have seen few innovations since. That may change, if the Korean export Live Park successfully breaks in. The brainchild of . . . → Read More: fastcompany: “A South Korean Augmented-Reality Theme Park Puts Disneyland To Shame”

The future of in-car entertainment and technology Driving is becoming less about getting from one place to another and more about an expression of freedom, social interaction and independence TAGS: future, Google self-driving cars, in-car 3D, In-car entertainment, in-car technology, Mitsubishi, Nissan Pivo, social driving, . . . → Read More: businessrevieweurope: The future of in-car entertainment and technology

A Startup Puts the Internet in Your Couch Cushions Sensor-filled Ninja Blocks connect the Web with whatever’s nearby.

Monday, April 16, 2012
By Rachel Metz

Whoever has been stealing Mark Wotton’s newspaper should look out: He’s formulating a revenge plan, and it involves ninjas.

Net ninja: Sensor-laden, Web-connected Ninja Blocks can carry out . . . → Read More: Tech Review: Ninja Blocks

Fourth Wall does the ‘Dirty Work’ of innovation

"…Voice-overs are not new; nor are pop-up factoids. But hearing or seeing additional information on a different device than the one you’re watching on could make the experience more immersive or engage viewers who might otherwise regularly glance down for the latest updates on Twitter and Facebook. "We . . . → Read More: LA TIMES: Fourth Wall does the ‘Dirty Work’ of innovation

Ultra-Haptics: Creating haptic feedback using ultrasound
Ultra-Haptics is a system for creating haptic feedback in mid-air. It uses a property of ultrasound called “acoustic radiation pressure”. Waves of ultrasound displace the air, creating a pressure difference. By causing many waves to arrive at the same place simultaneously, a noticeable pressure difference is created at that . . . → Read More: Ultra-Haptics: Creating haptic feedback using ultrasound

From Tech Review (via genebecker ) : " The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything…a world populated by ubiquitous sensors and streams of nanodata"

"As one of many examples of what is becoming possible using ultra-low-power computing, consider the wireless no-battery sensors created by Joshua R. Smith of the University of Washington. These sensors harvest . . . → Read More: Tech Review: ” The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything…a world populated by ubiquitous sensors and streams of nanodata”

Subaru Uses Stereo 3D Tech in New EyeSight™ ADAS By Ronnie Schreiber on March 17, 2012

In Jim Boswell‘s great revisionist automotive history The CAFE Continuum, a Cadillac salesman shows off the “wonders of fin-mounted 3-D backup camera imaging”. Stereo backup cameras are still . . . → Read More: Subaru Uses Stereo 3D Tech in New EyeSight™ ADAS

Startup Matterport Lets You 3D Scan Your Surroundings Matterport plans to give you a way to scan your surroundings, creating a virtual, 3D reconstruction of your apartment, for example. It’s one of 65 startups that pitched to investors at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, hoping to be the next breakout company. Pasted from < . . . → Read More: Mashable: Startup Matterport Lets You 3D Scan Your Surroundings

March 27, 2012 at 09:41 AM by Tom Scanning fruits and vegetables in supermarket without a barcode This is a great case of object recognition developed by Toshiba Tec. The scanner uses pattern-recognition technology to identify fruit or vegetables. This demo can even distinguish different type of apples by recognizing subtle differences in pattern and . . . → Read More: kooaba.ch: Scanning fruits and vegetables in supermarket without a barcode