I like his review of the SwissChamp XAVT – “The Swiss Army knife is the equivalent of a bloated application. It has so many great applications that it is useless – except to collectors like me who find extreme cases of bad design charming or useful.” It made me realize why I hoard technical toot [...]
06 May
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 chip technology into perspective by shrinking Mark Bohr to 20 million times his actual size [...]
04 May
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 a long way from the days of the DOS prompt, although I do miss that [...]
03 May
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16 Mar
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 – http://www.bing.com/twitter/maps See tweets in the context of a map and search for a specific [...]
10 Mar
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/ DeepZoom – http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/DeepZoom/Default.html Augmented Mapping – http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html Streetslide – http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/street_slide/index.html Visual data browsing with Pivot [...]
04 Mar
I’m not sure that i get this, but then I don’t get Facebook either. However, I do use Facebook (occasionally) and I’m going to use this on the next few flights I’ll be on. something tells me this will be more interesting on a flight to Vegas for MIX11 in April than it will be [...]
27 Feb
Wondering what alternative storytelling use this could have:
03 Feb
Following months of research and development, Amnesia Razorfish has replaced the typical 'send and receive' interface with a more natural 'gesture-based' interface. A smartphone owner can now move their content freely between two devices by simply dragging content off their phone onto a Microsoft Surface Table and back onto another device instantly. Amnesia Connect works [...]
26 Jan
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10 May