NeatTrix

Lumino is an concept for interacting with touch screen computer in 3D. With a system of glass-fiber-filled objects, Lumino is able to discern the particular block, or stack of blocks and modify the output accordingly. So it not only knows what’s sitting on it surface, it knows what’s sitting on top of that. Check it out.

NeatTools (an open-source project I work on) is finally (thanks to me) getting some documentation and media, out there on the web.  It’s early days yet, but there is a new wiki and a YouTube Channel both with growing amounts of information.  Here’s the first video to get you started:

Remind me to start carrying a shotgun in my car.  Or maybe an umbrella. Get it? Umbrella?… nevermind.

Two electronic road signs near the University of Texas were hacked to read Caution, Zombies Ahead.  The authorities were not amused.  Also, they weren’t killed by zombies, so bright side, yeah?  Apparently, they consider it a crime to tamper with safety warning signs.  They don’t actually care that no one reads them, or follows their advice, just so long as their message isn’t perverted in any way.

http://gear.ign.com/articles/949/949442p1.html

This may be a little off topic, but it’s my blog damn it and I’ll do what I like. You’re not the boss of me.

The idea of visualization stuck with me from the last post, and I remembered a video I had seen a few years ago and tried to track it down.

And here it is. Beautiful.

This is an old video, and a little long, but worth watching.  Great visualizations.  Recorded at the TED talks (ted.com) in 2006.  His talk demonstrates so clearly that while having good data is so important, being able to see what it’s telling you is equally important.

Here’s the link to his organization’s site.

http://www.gapminder.org/