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'Smart dust' aims to monitor everything

“Netscape [for the wireless sensor network] hasn’t quite happened,” - David Culler

Approaching the Body as an Input Surface

More gestures and alternative input research technologies.

Polaroid Movie The Movie Polaroid Camera prints movies on a flexible display that hopes to use Touch grapheme* technology to its advantage. The concept is a combination of analogue Polaroid film and digital touch technology and contains a built-in movie printer, which immediately “prints” the footage after the user has filmed it. [Link] View high resolution

Polaroid Movie

The Movie Polaroid Camera prints movies on a flexible display that hopes to use Touch grapheme* technology to its advantage. The concept is a combination of analogue Polaroid film and digital touch technology and contains a built-in movie printer, which immediately “prints” the footage after the user has filmed it.

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This decade we will finally see the end of the keyboard and mouse. View this “Gestures” video to get a glimpse of computing in the future. This type of computing will extend to devices without screens too.

Before The Singularity: Yahoo patents an Augmented Reality app However, Yahoo has a better plan. In a patent filed by the company, the inventors explain the concept of a “virtual note” that can be overlaid across pictures that you have taken so that description of places captured in a photo as well as subsequent comments can happen inside the photo itself. Full Story via spin

Before The Singularity: Yahoo patents an Augmented Reality app

However, Yahoo has a better plan. In a patent filed by the company, the inventors explain the concept of a “virtual note” that can be overlaid across pictures that you have taken so that description of places captured in a photo as well as subsequent comments can happen inside the photo itself.

Full Story

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Before The Singularity - Ingestible Compters Check out Discovery’s blog entry on 10 Technologies Transforming Sports for a mix of bio, nano and information technologies transforming sport. Link View high resolution

Before The Singularity - Ingestible Compters

Check out Discovery’s blog entry on 10 Technologies Transforming Sports for a mix of bio, nano and information technologies transforming sport.

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Before The Singularity: Philip Rosedale Attempting to Create Sentient Artificial Intelligence That Thinks and Dreams in Second Life!

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That Philip plans to revolutionize AI technology — in effect, achieving singularity in a virtual world — isn’t that surprising, because he said as much when I talked with him for The Making of Second Life:

“It’ll be possible for constructs that we build in Second Life and things like it in a simulated space to actually think,” he told me in 2007. “It’s only a decade away, the simulation engines.” I just didn’t imagine he’d essentially take the helm on that project himself.

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