Awesome technology, and a very simple concept:
Using this technology, information can be imported from a document as data, by selecting the necessary parts with your finger.
This technology measures the shape of real-world objects, and automatically adjusts the coordinate systems for the camera, projector, and real world. In this way, it can coordinate the display with touching, not only for flat surfaces like tables and paper, but also for the curved surfaces of objects such as books.
WHITE MEN wearing Google Glass.
(Source: whitemenwearinggoogleglass)
— Louis C. K.’s interview in Rolling Stone
Posted 3 weeks ago
G.E. Turns to the Crowd for Help in Creating Consumer Products
On Wednesday, G.E. announced a partnership with Quirky, a New York-based start-up that is a kind of social network for inventors, helping turn vague ideas into marketable items, manufacturing them, and distributing them through stores like Best Buy and Target. G.E. is licensing hundreds of its patents to the company’s community and working directly to help identify particularly promising consumer uses of these patents. The number of patents that G.E. is making available is expected to grow into the thousands in the coming months.
Full Story: NYT
obama selfie
The Making of Ninja Jamm (by ninja000)
The Terrible Truth About Toddlers and Touchscreens | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/the-terrible-truth-about-toddlers-and-touchscreens/
Our kids are going to be faced with screens and interfaces and embedded
video and multimedia all of their lives in ways that we cannot even
imagine. When I consider the screens that were available to me as a five
year-old, versus those that were available to me at 40, I am staggered by
all the welcome and unwelcome ways video has pervaded my life.
I have no fear that my child will only be able to form relationships with
avatars. Nor do I think that it’s imperative to dunk her in the digital
stream from an early age in order that she may better negotiate this coming
world of pervasive information. There’s some sort of weird balance we have
to fumble our way into finding and nobody — not parents, not scientists,
not anyone — knows yet quite where it is. But I am pretty sure it’s not
inside a rattle.
(via Instapaper >)
Unwanted Electronic Gear Rising in Toxic Piles
Advances in flat-screen technology have made older monitors and
televisions obsolete, decimating demand for tube glass used in them
and creating vast stockpiles of useless material.
Invasive Species
A series by Dillon Marsh
“In 1996 a palm tree appeared almost overnight in a suburb of Cape Town. This was supposedly the world’s first ever disguised cell phone tower. Since then these trees have spread across the city, South Africa and the rest of the world. Invasive Species explores the relationship between the environment and the disguised towers of Cape Town and its surrounds.”
(via xkcd: App)
From The New York Times:
Government Takes Legal Action Over Phone Spam
In eight federal civil cases, the Federal Trade Commission named 29
individuals, most of whom worked for companies that were hired to send
the unsolicited text messages.
The three-handed Instagram monster.
