A 3D Curve Sketching System For Tablets (Sunday 12th of October 2008 06:00:01 PM)
Dominique_cimafranca writes "The Dynamic visuals Project of the health center of Toronto has
released a pretty nifty 3D curve sketching system. Apart from the large drawing area, the
tablet disk general expenses system looks very intuitive to artists. ...
(more)Microsoft's Mundie Sees a Future In Spatial Computing (Sunday 28th of September 2008 12:45:07 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "Speaking at the MIT effluent hi tech* Conference, Microsoft Chief
pike and blueprint* Officer Craig Mundie explained that he sees the economics evolving into
'spatial computing,' and he envisions a 3-D virtual world populated ...
(more)Researchers Test Drive Bus With Automated Steering (Sunday 14th of September 2008 11:00:01 AM)
An nameless reader tips us to news that researchers at discipline mash unit of California,
Berkeley, have successfully test driven a 60-foot bus that dope its own steering. Sensors on
the bus detected magnets that had been embedded in a San Leandro road, ...
(more)Corporate Gaming Is Good For Business (Thursday 28th of August 2008 03:30:03 PM)
The Economist is running a story about how gaming is on the rise in pooled environments, and
how games are also sweet a popular tool for advertising. From internally grown-up games to
mercenary offerings to simply creating a fabric in which employees ...
(more)Siemens Develops Multi-Purpose Surveillance System (Monday 25th of August 2008 12:15:07 PM)
Ekesis tips a story up at NewScientist about the ontogeny of a new surveillance system by
German social contraception mass Siemens. The system is notable for its integration of many
diverse types of automated data-gathering. It can scan "telephone calls, ...
(more)How Nokia and Linux Can Live Together (Sunday 15th of June 2008 04:25:15 AM)
Bruce Perens writes "Ari Jaaski of Nokia is concerned that the Linux developers need to learn
to live with DRM, SIM-locking, and 'IPR'. But they won't. Fortunately, Nokia can do all that it
wants with Linux, while being GPL2 and even GPL3-compatible. ...
(more)Quickies — MIT's Intelligent Sticky Notes (Saturday 03rd of May 2008 07:15:05 AM)
Iddo Genuth writes to mention that MIT researchers have made their first pass at bringing the
common yellow post-it note into the digital age. Using a composite of artificial intelligence,
RFID, and ink recognition the team hopes to make the digital version ...
(more)Japan IDs All Its Citizens (Sunday 09th of March 2008 05:00:04 AM)
Edis Krad writes "While RealID in the US is a threat whose implementation is a ways in the
future, the sauna long ago implemented existence similar; and there has been very little
complaint raised about it. The Juki Net (Residents Registration Network ...
(more)New Authentication Scheme Proposed (Friday 08th of February 2008 08:30:02 PM)
Jerel brings us a story about a prototype authentication system which approaches security from
an atypical angle. It focuses on hiding identity challenges from attackers in addition to the
responses. The system, Undercover [PDF], "uses a combination of ...
(more)Transform Cellphones Into a CCTV Swarm (Friday 02nd of November 2007 12:00:04 PM)
Holy_calamity writes "Swiss researchers have developed java system software that has
bluetooth-capable camera phones form a distributed camera network. Each phone shares lore on
visual events with its neighbours and can work out the spatial scene of phones ...
(more)Wheelchair Controlled by Thought (Friday 07th of September 2007 01:15:09 AM)
Macduffman writes "New rocket engineer reports on another development in interfacing with the
central nervous system. The system "eavesdrops" on signals sent from the brain to the larynx,
so even people who lack the muscular control to vocalize a command ...
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