March 2012
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February 2012
8 posts
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Anonymous asked: How do you make a video like morn1415?
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20 predictions for the next 25 years
The Guardian published 20 predictions for the next 25 years, here is a link to them.
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A Day Made Of Glass 2
Nice video, showing and explaining the future through “Corning’s” eyes
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Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses
This has been discussed for a while, however now that DARPA http://www.darpa.mil/ are investing time and money into a project it will become a reality!
January 2012
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Air-Powered Car
Worlds first air powered car goes into production. India’s largest carmaker is to start producing the worlds first commercial air-powers car…
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A record player that plays slices of wood!
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
Year ring data is translated into music! love this idea beautiful.
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Kinect Controlled Music Mixing
Live Realtime Chase status - time / kinect performance Day 8 of development from Jonathan Hammond on Vimeo.
Love this Kinect controlled music mixer! say no more…
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Transmitting data using a light bulb
Here we go, 2012 and my first post is a beauty. Harald Haas demonstrates transmitting a HD video, using an LED light! The future is data transmitted using everyday light LED lights!
December 2011
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Trillion Frames Per Second
Watch and read this over and over, and still don’t understand how this works. However its amazing :)
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Future Cars - Karls Thoughts!
Always makes me laugh to here what Karl has to say about the Future.
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Helicopter, Sorry Quadrocopter
These are the smartest (Self Controlled) machines I have ever seen.
November 2011
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Take Google Maps Indoors
Ow how good is this! read more on the google blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-frontier-for-google-maps-mapping.html
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Water Projection - Nike
Cool water projection as part of a Nike promo for Jordan Melo M8.
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Perceptive Pixel Advanced Multi-Touch
New Multitouch with storyboard allows you to create and manipulate within a virtual space and timeline. Nice. Thanks for the link Tunde.
Anonymous asked: Will we ever be able to time travel? Bear in mind this could be a trick question and I'm actually writing this from the future.
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Radical New Camera
Thanks for this Kellie, I love the idea and the camera technology. This also leads us into the world of “Real” image capturing, and that can have future applications within 3D / holography. Nice work Lytro.
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The Future of Kinect
Microsoft (Xbox) have made their Kinect software “open” so that we can all use it to create our own interactions. This advert from Microsoft promotes their vision of the Kinect future.
Also see (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/xbox-kinect-sdk-microsoft/)
October 2011
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HoloDesk: Interacting with virtual objects
Microsoft are leading the way when it comes to connecting the real and the virtual. Thanks to Sean for sending me this link to Microsoft’s HoloDesk: a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics
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Quantum Levitation!
What? I hear you say. This is the future of anything that moves, frictionless motion… Think back to the future! Thanks Nikk for sending this to me.
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What happens if you have dirty hands?
Always a problem if you developing a cooking app! or have MyKitchen found a solution? Very Nice…
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Google Maps with 3D data
Google maps using Web GL is the perfect way of bringing together 3D building data, Google Street View images and maps information all into one place allowing you too move around seamlessly.
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Synchronized sounds when reading
Well kind of, nice idea to mix media to bring books to life.
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Making the future takes a Steve Jobs
Sad day, I will always remember this talk given by Steve jobs. Inspirational. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, only looking back” “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” How we all should look at our future…
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Disney toy mix's the real and virtual
It was only a matter of time before someone did this, and Disney got there first. The future of toys? What do you think?
September 2011
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Turning your thoughts into images
To say this is going to change everything is an understatement! Using computer brain mapping and video search technology scientists have managed to turn brain activity back into the images the brain is processing! Not long now until “I know Kung Fu!”. Thanks to Tunde for sharing this link
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Future Shopping (PayPal)
PayPal show us their future of shopping / paying, I didn’t think it went far enough where was the RFID integration etc? some of it looked interesting BUMP payments for one. What do you think?
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Future advertising
Thanks to Ian Dolan for this link to Blippar a AR advertising platform that allows you to like your own images to additional advertising content without a QR code. I like, what do you think?
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Future Motion Control Gaming
This is a fun mock-up but you cannot help but see this as a future possibility. Apart from the funny cables! the rest, mapping real spaces and then gaming within them would be amazing.
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Future pens and paper are! pens and paper
Love this wish it could also recognise hand writing and convert to digital text! maybe v2?
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Layered Video
This is the future of online video, layered so you can interact during playback. This is also a great idea executed perfectly.
August 2011
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Attaching digital data to physical objects
I have talked about this before and here is a real working example by ever note. Using near field technology which will be embedded into the next generation of phones (NFC) you add an NFC tag to any object then link that tag using your phone and a piece of software developed by Tuchanote. We are going to see this being used allot in the near future, Being able to give an object a history, or a...
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Get your camera back
GadgetTrak Camera Serial Search “will” reunite owners with lost or stolen cameras using unique data saved within the image. If this image is uploaded anywhere on the web it can be found and linked back you your camera. Great Idea for more go to the related link on Springwise.com.
Website: www.gadgettrak.com/camerasearch Contact: www.activetrak.com/company/
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The Future Is Collaboration
Visualising data allows us to see connections and patterns normally lost in numbers, here is a great site showing the scientific collaborations from 2005 to 2009.
Where Good Ideas Come From: by steven johnson is a great read and emphasis the need for liquid networks in order to innovate and create good ideas.
The future will come from networks and collaboration, but just being in a network...
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Laser beam - EJing the Future of DJing
Mobius 8 - Djing using his custom built sample playing equipment built using lasers and inferred sensors. Break free of the mouse clicking and move again.
More info - http://vimeo.com/1206545
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BBC Knowledge from 0 to the future
Nice little animation advertising BBC Knowledge (Wonder. Shared.) what will the future bring.
BBC KNOWLEDGE 60 from iamrader on Vimeo.
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Future Flight
Wings made of materials that heal themselves? You have to check out this video and full page on GE. The future of aeroplanes and flying as a whole is looking like a really cool one.
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Whole Cities Mapped in 3D...
I always thought that Google Cars would get Kinect sensors put on them to so this kind of mapping. This is the step we have always been looking for in order to completely map the earth’s surface in 3D. All we need now is the ability to also capture this over time!
July 2011
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Gestural Experience Cube
Inside a room that you can control using gestures! Minority Report / Holodeck…
Multitouch Experience Cube from SENSORY-MINDS on Vimeo.
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/the-multi-touch-experience-cube/
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Phone app that helps spot skin cancer
The more we know about cancer the better the future will be. Have a look at this clever app that helps you keep track of changes in moles so you can spot the early signs of skin cancer (melanoma) it also plots the results on a map so we can see where you are at high risk.
http://www.skinscanapp.com
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AR using Kinect & an iPad
Combining technologies can produce wonderful things, or wonderful wastes of time. This is a wonderful thing indeed.
3d Video with Kinect and iPad from cc laan on Vimeo.
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Tweet to a Phone in Space (NOW!)
You need to be quick, go here http://space-balloon.net/live/ and follow the phone in to space…
For more info on the project see http://www.adverblog.com/2011/07/15/samsung-spaceballoon/