Have a desire to see where mobile devices have been trending over the past two years? Then check out this data-rich and design-poor presentation. It’s not super up to date, but still quite relevant. Specifically, check the executive overview on the first page, and the user application survey at the end. AdMob Mobile Metrics – [...]
I’ve been looking into ways of (quickly and cheaply) geo-tagging my photos, and this is one of the best tutorials I’ve found: geosquan.blogspot.com/2010/03/geotag-photos-with-android-phone-and.html. You don’t even need an Android phone to make this work. What you do need, is a camera, smartphone, and computer. Here goes the short short version. 1. Download mytracks app (and [...]
Looks like the Kinect is sparking the same interest the wiimote did on its release! By combining the color and the depth image captured by the Microsoft Kinect, one can project the color image back out into space and create a “holographic” representation of the persons or objects that were captured. http://www.youtube.com/user/okreylos
It’s all about the algorithms. http://www.codeorgan.com/
Based on information from people uploading travel photos to Panoramio, these maps show exactly what you would expect. Even better than being an image, they have the whole google map mash up thing going on, which is pretty great! How else could you get an idea to travel to the Tibesti mountains? http://www.bluemoon.ee/~ahti/touristiness-map/
http://www.diesel.com/ahundredlovers/ Interesting idea, an interactive video you can pause and examine the clothing the models are wearing. The price is of course omitted. Looks like this was inspired by the Bande à part dance.
Kickstarter – Diaspora Diaspora – the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network.
http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/ball_pool/ This is a fun experiment! Runs in FF also, but much slower.
Researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada have developed floor tiles that can simulate the look, sound and feel of snow, grass or pebbles underfoot. Such a tool could perhaps be used for augmented reality applications, tele-presence, training, rehabilitation or even as virtual foot controllers. Augmented-Reality Floor Tiling