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Photo-Realistic Virtual World Rendered in The Cloud

lexander — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:47:19 +0000

from one of the founders of MySpace (Brad Greenspan) …

Very impressive.

Dr. Randy Pausch honored by Google

lexander — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:42:23 +0000

Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Randy Pausch passed away Thursday. He is known for his work on Alice, the Entertainment Technology Center, and his speech and book entitled “The Last Lecture”.

This weekend Google placed a link to his lecture on their homepage.

4.5M views and counting.

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Randy, you have shown me more courage than anyone I have met. You have inspired me and many others to seek out their dreams and to never let brick walls stop you. You “touched the world” and gave us hope in a society cynical its leaders and of the future.

RIP Professor. I am honored to have been your student.

~Michael

Visualizing you Living Room…

lexander — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:33:26 +0000

“Together with fellow Angry Man Jeroen van Hofwegen, I created a generative visual that shows the state of your living room. To do this we use the sound, light and temperature as input. The state of your living room is projected on your wall. The wall gets filled by organisms that live there in an abstract world. The wall is their habitat. So if it’s dark and there is no sound, some creatures will fall asleep.”

It’s kinda like the PlayStation Network commercial, but in real life….

via 6 Angry Men

Showreel Ecal

lexander — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:05:26 +0000

via Fubiz

Wii Surfing

lexander — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:08:54 +0000

Some German students rigged a Wii fit to their PC for some Silver Surfer style action over Google Earth.

via Core77:

Bill Buxton gets his way…

lexander — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:04:55 +0000

Radial Menus (aka Pie Menus) make it into Windows 7 (eta 2010), presumably for tablet and touch devices.

Bill Buxton was a UX (User eXperience) designer for Alias where Radial Menus were implemented for Maya and Sketchbook. He now works for M$. Personally, I like Radial Menus and think that they would have made sense for the iPhone, but Apple seems to hate them. (iRonic, huh?)

via CrunchGear

Chad Pugh creation-cast Science Machine on Vimeo

lexander — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:34:19 +0000

This guy is just awesome!

DimP is PimP

lexander — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:10:46 +0000

DimP is a Direct Manipulation Video player that allow users to drag items on the video screen at their rate of motion to move with the cursor. A great gift for investigators and folks that want to feel like they’re controlling time and space.

Finally, a good use for multi-touch

lexander — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:29:22 +0000

Missle Command + Multi-touch = Yes!

GreenPix

lexander — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:33:23 +0000

GreenPix is a massive wall of LED lights purely powered by solar energy. It is a true testament for sustainable design.

via Engadget