Researchers in Germany, Canada and the US may have come up with an elegant solution that can work with any smartphone and an external display: virtual projection. The system works by using a central server that constantly takes screenshots of the external display and compares them with the images from the phone’s camera to track [...]
German Photographer Marcus Reugels takes pictures of water droplets refracting an image behind them, making them each appear to contain a world or Batman or Spiderman. How he says on his website, every droplet is a unique piece of art. Pretty amazing Check out his other work, which he says was not manipulated with Photoshop [...]
Being a gamer myself there is always that point where I could go and do exercise or I could finish that next level and then usually I end up not going to the gym. Now there is a solution for my first world problem. BitGym has created a control system for playing iOS games while [...]
CES in Las Vegas is on and like every year I am jealous of everybody who can go to it. But nevertheless I still get to see all the cool new gadgets and while I have seen prototypes of this before, but this seems to be ready to be installed in my house. The Samsung [...]
I am very excited about the forthcoming Windows 8 and I have been playing around with it since the Developer Preview was released. We have a big touchscreen in the office here so it is perfect for the Metro UI, but I have to say that the mouse interaction on a laptop without a touchscreen [...]
We have seen some cool stuff in the past that could bring us closer to the Star Trek HoloDeck, e.g. the HoloDesk And now Microsoft Research has pushed a little further and gives us a 3D hologram that is floating in mid air at 15 frames per second and is viewable from 192 different points [...]
Over the years of development time on a number of small and big projects, I personally have always found myself in a position of asking myself “Do I use DTO’s?”. I wrote this article to share a blog post from SamsCode.com Link is : http://samscode.com/index.php/2010/06/entity-framework-v4-end-to-end-application-strategy-part-2-data-layer/ […]
Vodafone Ireland have launched a creative and innovative campaign this year in conjunction with the Christmas Season. The campaign looks to combine social media, projection mapping and street art, in an attempt to take the brand’s Facebook community offline and onto the streets. The campaign is a nice extension and ties in nicely with Vodafone’s [.. […]
*Quick pop quiz… 1. How many hours of video were uploaded to YouTube in 2010? 2. What percentage of smartphone owners, use their device while shopping? 3. What Australian state most frequently searches for the weather forecast? As a planner, I’m always chasing that one research tool to bring them all together, and while Think [...]
We have seen a lot of different uses for Kinect and more and more useful things have slowly come around (e.g. this mobile armchair ) Now there is another way of using Kinect – this time to track your customers in a retail environment. It’s called Shopper Tracker. The sensor sits on top of the [...]