Mark Bohr Gets Small: 22nm Explained – Intel 3D Transistors
Intel announced this week that they had made a breakthrough in transistor technology enabling them to create smaller, faster and more efficient transistors. But what does that actually mean? This lovely video and animation from Intel puts the scale of…
The Future of Interaction?
Recently I’ve been having a number of conversations about the future of interfaces and how the way we interact with computers and information will likely change in the near future. These conversations are mostly in reference to Kinect. We’ve come…
Ribbon Hero 2 – Clippy’s Second Chance
You’ve tried games that test your card playing, your imaginary farming skills, and your ability to hurl small birds. Finally there’s a game that will make you better at your job and it stars everyone’s favourite character who you love…
This is one of the reasons why I love the internet
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Animated GIFs – From Me To You – no not me…
I have a secret rule that in every presentation I give, I have to include an animated GIF. I like the GIF format that it's so bloated with information yet so widely adopted that it can be used to deliver…
AT&T – Ski Lift Commercial
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A story about social media
Today I was fortunate to spend 30 minutes talking to the Social Media Leadership Forum. I themed my talk around how we create, consume and analyse content online. Here’s a breakdown of the technologies I talked about. Bing Twitter Maps…
Microsoft Technology, a trip through recent history and a glimpse of the future
Here’s some links from the talk I gave today. Out of context of the presentation and without the narrative, they are still fun to explore. World Wide Telescope – http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ pptPlex – http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx Seadragon example – http://www.nli.ie/discover/ Photosynth – http://photosynth.net/…
Robot Fish ‘Charlie’. This is James Bond, need to know time via The CIA (sshhh)
The CIA have launched YouTube and Flickr accounts showing off historical videos and pictures. ‘The idea behind these improvements is to make more information about the agency available to more people, more easily,’ Director Panetta said in a statement. ‘The…
I’ve fallen in love with a robot (via @MissRobotics)
Something in me thinks this isn't real, but that's probably because it's so special and, well, magical. I could show it to my kids and they'd probably just shrug and say 'well, that's just the way things work these days,…