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Space: Gaja calling
f “Contact” with Jodie Foster was your kind of movie then you should have a look at the real-life version of sounds and noises recorded in space.
Watch the video for the sounds Gaja sends out into space that might be heard by other “aliens” on their planets…
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Data Visualization: Virtual Worlds
Marketing research company K Zero has published some interesting diagrams on virtual worlds. The first visualizes the virtual worlds by registered accounts and their development since 2003. It also includes some virtual worlds currently in development.
The second diagram shows the involvement of companies and their brands within these virtual worlds.
While the diagrams are very informative we are missing…
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NASA: ISS 360 Virtual tours
If you always wanted to have a look around inside the International Space Station and your uncle is not the new president of a former communist country or a Billionaire - here’s your chance:
The NASA has put up a web site dedicated to the ISS with introduction videos, external and internal 360 tours and much more…
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Microsoft Health Future Vision
A video providing some insights into Microsoft’s vision on the future of health care. The video has recently been used by Bill Gates on conferences and is also shown to visitors of the “MS Executive Briefing Center”.
Outstanding pictures like always from that shop and some rather good ideas. But there’s still a long way to go - particular with the IS/IT features.
More information at the…
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Leo Burnett: Future trends in advertising
A typographic video about the latest advertising trends predictions report from Leo Burnett / Arc.
The report was created by Ben Hourahine, Futures Editor at Leo Burnett (London). The predictions in the video include…
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Research: Autodesk Design on Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch
You might have seen Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch screens in action on CNN when following the 2008 primaries and caucuses. And he demonstrated the device with Google Earth and some drawing programs.
The video below shows you the potential of Multi-Touch screens with…
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Data visualization: IA’s web trend map 2008
Like in previous years Japanese design agency Information Architects have released a web trend map in the form of the the greater Tokyo-area train map.
The “2008 version” of the map shows almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites. It’s available as a interactive map online or you can download an A0 version as a pdf file to hang it as a poster in your office or at home…
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LevelHead: Open Source AR game
It started off as a residential project at the “Medialab Madrid” called “Unprepared Architecture”. Julian Oliver - the developer behind LevelHead - worked together with designer Simone Jones during June 2007 in Madrid on this “experiment in augmenting architecture“.
While not a game or avatar at that time, the work consisted of a three-dimensional animation that is inscribed on the projection of a 5cm x 5cm cube moved by the user. By now Julian Oliver has turned it into a prototype for an augmented reality game…
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Data Visualization: 3-D Map of Air Pollution in London
If you live in London air pollution is your daily companion. While it is believed that new measures like the Congestion charge have brought improvements to air quality in central London pollution remains a hot topic in the UK’s capital.
The 3D pollution maps were created by overlaying 3D models for London with pollution data and predictions. Data from the London’s air pollution sensors network together with pollution predictions from
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Research: Perceptive Pixel’s multi-touch display (2)
There is a new video of Jeff Han’s latest multi-touch display online that can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.
It looks like that we might build one of these displays for an upcoming project soon. Watch this space for more detailed information…
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