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Gesture Recognition & Computer Vision Control Technology & Motion Sensing Systems for Presentation & Entertainment
Gesture Recognition & Computer Vision Control Technology & Motion Sensing Systems for Presentation & Entertainment
GestureTek is the patent-holder and world leader in video gesture control technology for interactive multi-touch surfaces., signs, displays, devices and games for advertising, entertainment and information delivery. Our multi-touch display screens come as multi-touch tables, multi-touch screens, multi-touch panels or multi-touch windows. Interactive visual projection display systems with gesture controlled interactive special effects, advertising and games on interactive floors, walls, tables, windows, counters and bar tops. Our immersive advertising technology creates interactive digital signs that project people’s video image onscreen for an immersive interactive experience. 3D tracking and control software powers gesture control TVs, 3D depth sensing digital signs, digital signage and interactive hand-tracking displays. Our systems have international patent protection. Selected patents include: Video Gesture Control (5,534,917); Multiple Camera Control/Point to Control (7,058,204),
·gesturetek.com·
Gesture Recognition & Computer Vision Control Technology & Motion Sensing Systems for Presentation & Entertainment
Gesture-Based Computing Uses $1 Lycra Gloves | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Gesture-Based Computing Uses $1 Lycra Gloves | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Interacting with your computer by waving your hands may require just a pair of multicolored gloves and a webcam, say two researchers at MIT who have made a breakthrough in gesture-based computing that’s inexpensive and easy to use. A pair of lycra gloves — with 20 irregularly shaped patches in 10 different colors — held in front of a webcam can generate a unique pattern with every wave of the hand or flex of the finger. That can be matched against a database of gestures and translated into commands for the computer. The gloves can cost just about a dollar to manufacture, say the researchers.
·wired.com·
Gesture-Based Computing Uses $1 Lycra Gloves | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Video of the Day: Introducing the UNIVAC Computer - Jared Keller - Technology - The Atlantic
Video of the Day: Introducing the UNIVAC Computer - Jared Keller - Technology - The Atlantic
In the 1950s, businessman and machines manufacturer Remington Rand introduced America to the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer made in the United States. This particular television commercial spotlights the UNIVAC's weather forecasting capability while providing a brief explanation of the major parts of the UNIVAC system. "Data from guided weather rockets, radar observation stations, weather stations ... all of this can be fed into the computer through magnetic tapes at a rate of 12,000 letters or numbers per second," Rand said. "All of this information is analyzed in the heart of the UNIVAC, the electronic central computer, capable of making over 2,000 mathematical calculations per second."
·theatlantic.com·
Video of the Day: Introducing the UNIVAC Computer - Jared Keller - Technology - The Atlantic
HOW TO: Make Free iPhone Ringtones
HOW TO: Make Free iPhone Ringtones
If you’re sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don’t want to download a canned tone, you don’t need to spend extra money to turn your favorite song into a ringtone for your iPhone. There’s a way to create ringtones in iTunes from your existing music.
·mashable.com·
HOW TO: Make Free iPhone Ringtones
Aaron Rose for Incase
Aaron Rose for Incase
Aaron Rose has created a series of three original short films and photo essays for Incase. Traveling to a number of international locales, Rose shot each piece using the iPhone 4 high-definition camera while relying on our cases to provide his iPhone with the on-the-go protection that on-location shooting requires.
·goincase.com·
Aaron Rose for Incase
Whole Brain Catalog
Whole Brain Catalog
An open source, downloadable, multi-scale, virtual catalog of the mouse brain and its cellular constituents. This next generation open environment has been developed by a team of researchers from the UC San Diego to connect members of the worldwide neuroscience community to facilitate solutions for today’s intractable challenges in brain research. We welcome you to read more about it, participate in the Catalog’s forums, keep abreast of recent developments, and subscribe to our mailing list. Enjoy your journey into the brain!
·wholebraincatalog.org·
Whole Brain Catalog
Total Engagement
Total Engagement
What if your employees could solve customer problems, design new software, or configure better shipping routes working inside a game environment at work? This isn't just possible, say Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read; it's inevitable. As employee productivity and engagement become more critical, the user experience provided by game technology offers a tantalizing solution for business. This is far more than a quaint metaphor or a twist on e-learning. Game design elements can address a host of business problems with morale, communication, and alignment while honing skills like data analysis, teamwork, leadership, and more.
·totalengagement.org·
Total Engagement
Gameification of eLearning | 24 Tips
Gameification of eLearning | 24 Tips
Many workplace learning professionals will be familiar with Tuckman’s Forming–Storming–Norming–Performing model of group development. I also think the model applies to new words; everybody hates terms like ‘Social Media’, ‘curation’, ‘affordances’ and ‘usability’ at first. But then we all find ourselves using them on a daily basis (or even putting them on our business cards. . .)Gameification is such a word.
·24tips.elearningnetwork.org·
Gameification of eLearning | 24 Tips
Local News | Washington's 2-year colleges out to beat high cost of textbooks | Seattle Times Newspaper
Local News | Washington's 2-year colleges out to beat high cost of textbooks | Seattle Times Newspaper
The state's community and technical colleges are leading the way with an ambitious new initiative: They're assembling previously published "open-source" textbooks and course materials for the 81 most popular classes at state two-year colleges — including for such mainstays as "General Psychology" and "Introduction to Chemistry."
·seattletimes.nwsource.com·
Local News | Washington's 2-year colleges out to beat high cost of textbooks | Seattle Times Newspaper
The Case for Nudge Analytics (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE
The Case for Nudge Analytics (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE
Could we bring choice architecture to higher education based not on expert design but on our wealth of digital data? Could we use machine-based nudges for our learners to promote the engagement, focus, and time-on-task behavior at the core of student success? Could we use the nudge of comparative data to influence factors like procrastination, meeting deadlines, coming to class — or to the class learning management system? This article makes the case that not only can our data nudge students to better achievement and persistence but also that the knowledge embedded in our machines makes it possible to do so without the guesswork of human design and intervention.
·educause.edu·
The Case for Nudge Analytics (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE
Digital Humanities Questions & Answers
Digital Humanities Questions & Answers
We're building a community-based Q&A board for digital humanities questions that need (just a little) more than 140 character answers. @DHAnswers is a collaborative project of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHacker.
·digitalhumanities.org·
Digital Humanities Questions & Answers
Digital Humanities Questions & Answers
Digital Humanities Questions & Answers
We're building a community-based Q&A board for digital humanities questions that need (just a little) more than 140 character answers. @DHAnswers is a collaborative project of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Chronicle of Hi
·digitalhumanities.org·
Digital Humanities Questions & Answers
Workbench : Nature Network
Workbench : Nature Network
Workbench is your personal work area with online science tools - all in one place. Only you decide what is on your Workbench: You can add and remove widgets any time. You can also move them around so that each widget is exactly where you want it to be. There's more! Workbench is an open project and you can co-create it
·network.nature.com·
Workbench : Nature Network
A Brief History of New Media
A Brief History of New Media
New Media is a multidisciplinary and multiperspective field. This series of lectures are intended to generate a share understanding between different professionals of some of the phenomena related to New Media. The objective is to discover some shared vocabulary and common ground. We will explore some of the relevant issues introduced though names (artists, designers, scientists, etc.), institutions and technologies (hardware, applications / software) which have made an impact in the development of the field.
·mlab.uiah.fi·
A Brief History of New Media
BBC - A History of the World - Home
BBC - A History of the World - Home
This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK. What will you add to the collection?
·bbc.co.uk·
BBC - A History of the World - Home
BBC - A History of the World - Home
BBC - A History of the World - Home
This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK. What will you add to the collection?
·bbc.co.uk·
BBC - A History of the World - Home
Apple’s Patent May Unlock 3-D Technology: Tech News «
Apple’s Patent May Unlock 3-D Technology: Tech News «
Apple may hold the key to help bring easy-to-use 3-D technology to the masses: the company has been awarded a patent on a new auto-stereoscopic 3-D projection system that allows multiple viewers to watch 3-D content without glasses. Apple’s patent describes a rather complicated set-up involving a motion-tracking system that monitors the eyes of multiple users, and then projects pixels onto a “projection screen having a predetermined angularly-responsive reflective surface function.” The screen would essentially deliver different views for different people based on their eye position.
·gigaom.com·
Apple’s Patent May Unlock 3-D Technology: Tech News «
Apple’s Patent May Unlock 3-D Technology: Tech News «
Apple’s Patent May Unlock 3-D Technology: Tech News «
Apple may hold the key to help bring easy-to-use 3-D technology to the masses: the company has been awarded a patent on a new auto-stereoscopic 3-D projection system that allows multiple viewers to watch 3-D content without glasses. Apple’s patent descri
·gigaom.com·
Apple’s Patent May Unlock 3-D Technology: Tech News «
Ask a Curator - September 1st 2010
Ask a Curator - September 1st 2010
Ask a Curator Day' on September 1st 2010 will open the door to these experts with a unique worldwide question and answer session which will let interested members of the public put questions to museum and gallery curators. We are using the popular website Twitter to host 'Ask a Curator'. You can find a list of participating cultural venues in the 'who to ask?' section of this website, or simply follow the hashtag #askacurator on September 1st to follow the questions other people are asking. Ask a curator follows a similar successful event called 'Follow a Museum' which took place in February 2010.
·askacurator.com·
Ask a Curator - September 1st 2010
Needlebase
Needlebase
a revolutionary platform for acquiring, integrating, cleansing, analyzing and publishing data on the web.  Using Needle through a web browser, without programmers or DBAs, your data team can easily: acquire data from multiple sources:  A simple tagging process quickly imports structured data from complex websites, XML feeds, and spreadsheets into a unified database of your design. merge, deduplicate and cleanse: Needle uses intelligent semantics to help you find and merge variant forms of the same record.  Your merges, edits and deletions persist even after the original data is refreshed from its source. build and publish custom data views: Use Needle's visual UI and powerful query language to configure exactly your desired view of the data, whether as a list, table, grid, or map.  Then, with one click, publish the data for others to see, or export a feed of the clean data to your own local database.
·needlebase.com·
Needlebase
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - NYTimes.com
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - NYTimes.com
Pictures are supposed to be worth a thousand words. But a picture unaccompanied by words may not mean anything at all. Do pictures provide evidence? And if so, evidence of what? And, of course, the underlying question: do they tell the truth? I have beliefs about the photographs I see. Often – when they appear in books or newspapers – there are captions below them, or they are embedded in explanatory text. And even where there are no explicit captions on the page, there are captions in my mind. What I think I’m looking at. What I think the photograph is about.
·opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com·
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - NYTimes.com
Wrap 920AR
Wrap 920AR
maxReality provides the power to easily bring Autodesk® 3ds Max® characters to life on your desktop, displayed in stereoscopic 3D through the Wrap 920AR augmented reality eyewear. For those familiar with the basic operation of Autodesk 3ds Max it takes only minutes until you are able to view in an augmented reality application using the maxReality Viewer and provided marker. Never has augmented reality been so fast and easy. A wearable display with a 67-inch screen, as viewed from ten feet, stereo video capture, 6-degrees of freedom head tracking, VGA connectivity for your computer and plug-in software to bring your Autodesk® 3ds Max® characters to life – this bundle has it all.
·vuzix.com·
Wrap 920AR
Non-technical Guide to Isolating Slow MySQL Queries
Non-technical Guide to Isolating Slow MySQL Queries
MySQL is ubiquitous. As such there are many non-technical users who rely on MySQL but do not want to become MySQL experts beyond routine maintenance. When query-related performance problems creep in, such users are at a loss because there is no magic solution for slow queries; each case is unique. This document is a non-technical guide for isolating slow queries. You do not have to be a MySQL expert, or know how to analyze queries, to isolate (i.e. identify) which queries are causing the most problems on your server. Once you have isolated these queries, you can consult with a MySQL expert to fix them.
·hackmysql.com·
Non-technical Guide to Isolating Slow MySQL Queries