Monthly Archives: August 2009

Coffee Table as Universal Remote Control

August 20, 2009 – 7:51 PM

One of our colleagues sent over this Gadget Lab story the other day.  It’s a pretty cool academic project from the Media Interaction Lab in Austria called CRISTAL – “Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces” (a stretch of an acronym, but let’s cut them some slack – they speak German [...]

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Touchable (& Feelable) Holography

August 8, 2009 – 8:20 AM

A video out of Asia recently surfaced all over the web, demonstrating an interesting project out of the University of Tokyo. Watch the video, it starts out slow, but gets interesting.

Now holography itself is pretty old hat to us – we were implementing it more than a decade ago. And combining gestural vision systems with [...]

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All Blacks UGC Photosynth

August 3, 2009 – 6:09 PM

Adidas and the All Blacks are at it again, pushing the technology envelope. Last year they did a great campaign called Adi Thread where they used nanotechnology to etch fans’ names onto a the stitching in the captain of the team’s jersey. This time they are tapping the rugby team’s fans again for a campaign [...]

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