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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
May
30
2009
0This presentation is kind of long but there is so much to unpack. Google Wave not only going bin email and IM it is going to change the nature of online collaboration. Projects will never be the same again, submission/review systems need to be thrown away because this stuff is the future. Who needs Outlook anymore?
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.