Sunday, 15. March 2009
Topic: Wearable PC - on March 15, 2009 at 10:16:00 AM CET
SixthSense wearable data interface
The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 15, 2009 at 10:15:00 AM CET
Meet Eyeborg: Filmmaker plans secret surveillance using prosthetic eye camera
A one-eyed documentary filmmaker has developed a video camera that can be concealed inside a prosthetic eye.
He hopes to be able to record the same things he sees with his working eye, his muscles moving the camera eye just like his real one.
Rob Spence plans to secretly record people for a film project commenting on the global spread of surveillance.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 15, 2009 at 10:12:00 AM CET
Bora-Bora: Over and under
Bora-Bora is a dream landscape just 160 miles northwest of Tahiti. L.A. Times photographer Bob Chamberlin caught both sides of this island where ultra-luxurious hotels have sprouted in the past few years -- all designed to lure the world's most affluent travelers to this fabled South Pacific island.
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Topic: History - on March 15, 2009 at 10:11:00 AM CET
Maya myth revealed
Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of monumental stucco panels in Guatemala that appear to depict one of the New World's oldest-known creation stories, going back thousands of years to what experts call "the cradle of Maya civilization." The discovery suggests that the saga, known as the Popol Vuh, was a centerpiece of Maya beliefs for well more than a millennium and stands as one of the world's enduring religious stories.
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Topic: ART - on March 15, 2009 at 9:53:00 AM CET
Graffiti Fanmags und Banksy Bücher online
Die Website Zinelibrary hat jede Menge Fanmags und Underground-Magazine zu allen möglichen Themen von Kochen bis Anarchismus, die Graffiti-Sektion ist eine wahre Fundgrube.
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