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.
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 gpstest app for android)
2. Record a track.
3. When you start shooting, the first picture you take should be of the clock on your phone. You will use this later on to sync your camera time (saved in the meta data) to GPS time (saved in the actual photo). If you have the Android app gpstest, take a picture of that screen instead.
4. When you’re done taking pictures, stop the track and send it to yourself.
5. Use gpicsync to stitch your GPS track data to the EXIF data associated with your images.
6. Post those bad boys up on Flickr, Picasa, or anything else that hooks into GPS data!
I like the flexibility this system provides. You can use the hardware/software combination you like best, and achieve the same results. So cool!
This is a great system for domestic use, but if you go international you will likely have to change the source of your GPS track. I’d look into the Qstarz BT-Q1000XT. I’ve never used it, but it seems to get good reviews on several different sites.
Do you geo-tag your photos? How do you make that happen?
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.
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