Annie Ok : tangent http://annieok.com/tangent Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:57:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 interesting 11.8.09 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/annieok/tangent/~3/jnC3ra5axw4/ http://annieok.com/tangent/?p=3350#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:36:35 +0000 Annie Ok http://annieok.com/tangent/?p=3350
  • 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]
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  • Vicon Revue: Wearable automatic lifelogging camera based on Microsoft Research SenseCam technology
  • BETWEEN – A Short Film by Tim Bollinger
  • Artist Stephen Wiltshire draws New York Panorama from memory
  • James Turrell: The Wolfsburg Project – an exploration of space & light, his largest museum installation
  • Unity Technologies Launches Version 2.6 of Its Platform and Makes Unity Freely Available
  • The Velvet Underground: New York Art [book]
  • PlayStation.Blog.Europe: Halloween Comes To PlayStation Home
  • Simon Jansen: STAR WARS ASCIIMATION
  • Coming Soon: Netflix Members Can Instantly Watch Movies and TV Episodes Streamed to TVs Via the PlayStation®3 Computer Entertainment System
  • Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Social Search
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  • Dan Meth: The Promised Land – Google Street View road trip video
  • Photoshop.com Mobile iPhone App – Photo editing, sharing, upload (free)
  • Waveboard: Google Wave app for Mac desktop and iPhone
  • Letter to FCC Chairman Genachowski Supporting Open Internet Rules from 24 Tech CEOs & Founders, including Facebook, Sony, Amazon, eBay, Twitter, and Google – Net Neutrality
  • HERB & DOROTHY Vogel – Tale of postal worker & librarian’s incredible contemporary art collection [documentary]
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  • Visual Media Lab & HIT Lab NZ: In-Place Augmented Reality 3D Sketching of Mechanical Systems [video]
  • SWEATSHOPPE: Painting with Video – Live, using projection mapping, no paint, no post-production
  • Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction [video]
  • Torben Sko: Controlling the Facial Expressions of a Virtual Character using a Webcam – FaceAPI tracking program
  • MIT Technology Review: TR35 2009 – Young Innovators Under 35
  • Layar augmented reality app available for iPhone (free)
  • Chris O’Shea: Hand from Above – giant hand interacts with passersby in augmented reality street installation
  • Dyson launches Air Multiplier fan
  • Sesame Street: Philip Glass – Geometry of Circles [video]
  • Google Building Maker – Online 3D modeling tool for creating and adding buildings to Google Earth
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  • 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
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  • The National Parks: America’s Best Idea – Ken Burns documentary series on PBS
  • Rachel Sussman: The Oldest Living Things in the World – photographs
  • Brizzly: Enhanced Twitter client in your browser – beta invite code (via @stephenfry)
  • Cyclopedia: augmented reality iPhone app – overlays Wikipedia info using camera, compass, & GPS
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Jarbas Agnelli: Birds on the Wires – song made using exact location of birds on electric wires as notes [video]
  • Institute of Play launches Quest to Learn, the new NYC public school using game-inspired teaching methods
  • Shoot: Photography of the Moment – book of works by Tim Barber, Dash Snow, Juergen Teller, Glynnis McDaris, etc
  • ‘Telepathy’ chip that lets you control electronic devices using the power of thought being developed by scientists
  • Derek Lerner: Apple Snow Leopard 10.6 Build 10A432 QuickTime X color & contrast inconsistency
  • National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Make History – a collection of stories, videos, and photos submitted by people who experienced 9/11
  • Vision Library for PlayStation Eye: augmented reality using facial recognition
  • augearth: Augmenting aerial earth maps (Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth) with dynamic information obtained from videos, visualizing the live broadcast of dynamic sceneries within a city – Georgia Institute of Technology
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  • 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
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