15 Apr 05
Duelling Realities | Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | Toys For Geeks | Video Replaces Writing
Children’s storybooks tend to be highly tactile and brightly illustrated to captivate the attention of youngsters. Augmented Reality will take this storytelling to a whole new level if a recent project from the Mixed Reality Lab portends anything: [via we make money not art]
Magic Cubes developed at the National University of Singapore and Osaka University, uses video tracking to tell stories that seem …
15 Apr 05
Culture Wars | Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | Info-slavery | Jump the Shark | Rise of The Creative Class
Remember the arcade game Asteroids? You piloted a ship through space while blasting your way through asteroid fields. Sometimes your ship’s only defense was to make a hyperspace jump away from certain death. Well, the bloggers-cum-journalists below could use such a defense from the fallout of their free speech reporting on an alleged music product code-named Asteroid.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is appealing Judge James Kleinberg’s decision that …
15 Apr 05
Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | No Strings
Things are heating up at the pole–and no, this isn’t about global warming.
It’s no longer unusual to find Internet access in remote regions, but on the ice cap? Two employees from Intel Russia (oooh, those pesky Ruskies) have set up a Wi-Fi hotspot at the Barneo ice camp, according to a report from IT World Canada:
Despite the challenges, the employees installed a 802.11b/g access point at the …
Future Files:
But more and more Japanese these days are like Kijima: elderly and living alone. Still, Kijima, 83, a widower with no children, does have someone watching out for him via a bit of technology embedded in his kitchen.
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