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Nov
28
2010
0So one day in the future we will all have desks that are useful for more than storing plants and coffee? Yeah right, like that will ever happen, looks cool though. For some reason reminds me of the video game table that you used to find in pubs when I was a young man.
The Media Computing Group — otherwise known as the dudes and dudettes responsible for making multitouch hip again — is back, and some might say better than ever. The BendDesk is an outlandish new concept workspace for the future, relying heavily on a curved multitouch display to bring the wow. The desk is the Group’s vision of merging multitouch with a common physical area, and it’s probably the best implementation we’ve seen yet.
[From Listening to: Walk from the album “Vulgar Display Of Power” by Pantera
Aug
16
2009
0In the future we won’t ever need to get off the sofa. We also never need to wonder where the remote is, because it will be under our cup of coffee.
Experimental Tech Turns Your Coffee Table Into a Universal Remote
By Priya Ganapati August 14, 2009
Stock up on coasters. A new technology combines the coffee table with a universal remote so that people sitting around the table can tap on a screen to change the channel, turn up the volume or dim the lights.
CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is a research project in user interface that attempts to create a natural way of connecting with devices. The system offers a streaming video view of the living room on a tabletop, so users can can walk up to it, see the layout of the room and interact with the TV or the photo frame.
“We wanted a social aspect to activities such as choosing what to watch on TV and we wanted to make the process easy and intuitive,” says Stacey Scott, assistant profess [From Listening to: Blush Response from the album “Blade Runner – 25th Anniversary 3-CD Special Edition CD-1” by Vangelis
Aug
12
2009
0Really cool images of impact craters seen from space. Yep, I’m pointing you to pictures of holes in the ground. Go and take a look while I just nip out and get a life.
Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen From Space
By Betsy Mason August 11, 2009
The Manicougan Crater in northern Canada is one of the largest impact craters known on Earth. The impact occurred around 210 million years ago at the end of the Triassic period and may have caused a mass extinction that killed around 60 percent of all species. Though the crater has mostly eroded, Lake Manicougan outlines what is left of the 43-mile wide impact structure. The asteroid that created the crater is thought to have been about three miles wide. Today the lake is a reservoir and popular salmon fishing location. [From Watermelon Man from the album “The Essential” by Herbie Hancock
Aug
6
2009
0
Someone pointed out TypeTees to me yesterday. There are some pretty cool t-shirts on this website if slogans and stuff are your thing. You can also get paid $500 for your pithy witticism if they choose to put it on a shirt.
You simply submit your slogan and other bozos vote for your it. I say bozos because no one seems to like mine.
Not that I’m bitter at all. I’m just misunderstood dammit.
Jul
29
2009
0A long time ago in a galaxy far far far away (in the constellation of Brighton) there lived a young-ish buck with an unhealthy obsession for drinking and the film Fight Club. As part of his university coursework this fellow decided to apply one of his obsessions to the work of some Austrian neurologist and pass it off as a philosophy essay.
No one seemed to notice that it wasn’t that good so he submitted it to the fan site of Chuck Palahniuk (the author of the book that the film was based on). Apparently they also didn’t twig that it wasn’t a work of genius and put it up on their website. There it stands until this very day where it was discovered when I was checking out whether bing.com was any good or not. I’m not sure I like Bing.com but I like the fact that an essay that I wrote 7 years ago is still online.
A link to the website is below.
I’m hosting the paper for my own good self here
May
9
2009
0I just had a nerdgasm. OK you could argue that it is just the Internet with a few added tweaks but O.M.G. there are a number of extraordinary possible applications for this. The reaction of the audience speaks volumes.
As a great man once said it’s gonna be the future soon.