Voici cette nouvelle et excellente vidéo produite par Microsoft pour illustrer les possibilités de Kinect avec la console Xbox 360. Une illustration et une étonnante vision de nos utilisations prévues dans le futur proche. Une campagne à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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Retour sur ce projet et ce mégaphone très original, servant d’amplificateur destiné uniquement pour l’iPhone. Conçu en Italie par le studio En&is, il a été imaginé en céramique avec un trépied en bois. Disponible en trois couleurs, à découvrir en images et en vidéo dans la suite.
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Un excellent concept par l’agence Appshaker pour National Geographic, avec cette démonstration en réalité augmentée dans un centre commercial en Hongrie. Un écran géant permettant l’incrustation d’images 3D en temps réel tels que des dauphins, dinosaures ou léopards.
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Adam Grossman and Jack Turner are a couple of “mild-mannered web / mobile developers” based in Troy, New York, who collaborate as Jackadam. If their Kickstarter pitch is any indication, their choice of adjectives is appropriate:
Their Kickstarter project, “Dark Sky,” is a new kind of weather app that promises military-grade accuracy in mobile meteorology:
Using your precise location, it tells you when it will precipitate and for how long. For example: It might tell you that it will start raining in 8 minutes, with the rain lasting for 15 minutes followed by a 25 minute break.
How is it possible predict the weather down to the minute? What’s the catch?
Well, the catch is that it only works over a short period of time: a half hour to an hour in the future. But, as it turns out, this timespan is crucially important. Our lives are filled with short-term outdoor activities: Traveling to and from work, walking the dog, lunch with friends, outdoor sports, etc.
It’s a great example of identifying a neglected space for innovation and then, well, innovating. Given that the weather has some kind of bearing on nearly every decision that one makes—at least to the extent that one must leave his or her home—I think that the limited timeframe makes perfect sense. It’s obviously nice to know what the weather will be like over the weekend—sunny with highs in the 50s, for those of you in New York—it seems far more practical to know what it’s like (at risk of snide suggestions to look out the window) right now. It’s like the Twitter of weather forecasts.
They’ve also devoted a bit of energy to improving Doppler radar animations in the interest of a more intuitive data visualization for storm systems.
Doppler radar stations only take new images every five to ten minutes, so instead of a smooth animation you’re presented with a slideshow of a handful of still images. This makes it hard to get a sense of where the storms are coming from and where they’re headed.
Using the same techniques we’ve developed for predicting rain, we can show you what the storm looks like in between the individual radar snapshots. We replace the jerky slideshow with a beautifully smooth interactive animation. And it’s not just pretty… it’s easier for your brain to process and understand a smoothly flowing video than a series of images that jump from point to point. Check out the video above for a comparison!
Mint Foundry, a research team at the London office of Mint Digital, have been making a stink (in a manner of speaking) about a new peripheral called “Olly.” Given the brief to “make something connected to the Internet that doesn’t live on a screen,” the fruit of their efforts is a USB device that converts web notifications into smells:
Olly takes services on the Internet and delivers their pings as smell. Whether it’s tweets, a like on Instagram, or just your train running late, Olly will be sure to let your nose know about it. The best part? The services Olly connects to can be added to by developers, making the possibilities endless.
Your push notifications just got a lot more visceral: whether it’s a redolent waft of espresso to accompany the unread e-mail deluge in the morning or a puff of potpourri for each ping, Olly marks the next evolution of the Glade plug-in.
As for Olly’s features: the scent—”essential oils, a slice of fruit, your partner’s perfume or even a drop of gin,” etc.—originates from a small dish, which slides out of a drawer in Olly’s back. His face (it’s a ‘he’ according to Mint Foundry) consists of a customizable dot-grid; in fact, he is completely open source: “All the parts, code and instructions to Olly are fully accessible and open. Tinker about and see what is possible. Olly is what you make him.”
Surf gear company Rip Curl and Time-Slice Films, the visual effects house behind the “bullet time” visuals first seen in The Matrix, have partnered up to take digital camera arrays where they’ve never gone before: In the water to capture surfers in action.
As you can imagine the technical challenges were immense, and their first foray was in the more controlled environment of the wave pool at Malaysia’s Sunway Lagoon Hotel. There they could erect an in-water scaffolding to mount 52 full-sized DSLR cameras, and the results were stunning (I highly recommend you watch them full-screen):
What could be better than Google Maps? C3 Technologies’ stunning 3D city displays, which let you rotate, zoom and pan through the city as if you’d modeled it all on your computer. The technology, which uses footage captured from airplanes and processed through a formerly proprietary military missile-guidance system, absolutely must be seen to be believed. Check out San Francisco, starting around 2:00:
Un travail du studio d’architecture Foster + Partners avec le premier aéroport spatial de l’histoire Spaceport America : le projet de Richard Branson, patron de Virgin. Une surface de 11 000 m2 dans le désert du Nouveau-Mexique. Le premier vol suborbital est prévu pour la fin 2012.
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The folks from Graffiti Research Lab, an online resource for digitally enabled, open-source tools for “urban communication,” recently posted a video for an Arduino-enabled project called the Near Tag Quality or NTQ. We’ve been a fan of the Lab’s work from early on, reporting about their LED Bomb Throwies, their High Writer, electro-graf, L.A.S.E.R. Tag and of course Zach Lieberman’s Eyewriter.
NTQ uses Arduino to program 7 spraycans to “write” full sentences, similar to the dot matrix-inspired technology we saw in Beijing Design Week’s Water Calligraphy Device. The project took two months to complete and cost around €200. The NTQ debuted during the This Place Has No Atmosphere exhibition at the IMOCA Dublin. Watch a video demo after the jump and while you’re at it, check out Graffiti Research Lab’s arduino-enabled low-cost project, Laser Knuckles, a POV text writer.
Though it’s been live for less than a week, this alluring “Productivity Future Vision” video already has north of a million hits. Produced by Microsoft’s Office Division, the concept video displays ideas currently under discussion at Redmond. Writes MOD President Kurt DelBene,
All of the ideas in the video are based on real technology. Some of the capabilities, such as speech recognition, real time collaboration and data visualization already exist today. Others are not yet available in specific products, but represent active research and development happening at Microsoft and other companies.
…We see technology moving from a passive tool to a more active assistant, helping us get things done, and strengthening our interactions with one another. You’ll see how people can stay productive using a variety of devices from slates and PCs to mobile devices where they can access their information regardless of their location or the device they are using.
Collaborating on projects with remote colleagues gets easier. Information can be interacted with and manipulated using touch and voice commands to create beautiful and useful documents. Better decisions can be made faster with information that is contextually relevant to where you are and what you are doing.
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