10/GUI - une belle proposition d''interface tactile

Pour plus d'information: http://10gui.com/

De «Made in China» à «Created in China»

Entrevue avec Bruno Guglielminetti à RDI dans le cadre du 5e Sommet mondial de l'Internet et du multimédia à Shenyang

Robotvision

My Twitter Class of '08 [PIC]

Une photo qui m'a fait sourire - les choses changent, mais restent les mêmes

Following a Twitter stream is like being in a high school classroom. You get the bullies, the geeks, the egomaniac, the comedian, the shy guy, the bitch, the idiot, the "sweetheart" couple, the know-all, the old guy etc. They're all there...

[VIA: Mallix]

Speaking Piano

Pretty amazing, how all of a sudden the words of the Declaration become understandable to a European Environmental Criminal Court. Wien Modern was one out of ten cultural institutions asked for an artistic contribution to the event in Palazzo Ducale in Venice.

The ambitious goal was to make this message audible with musical means, without falling back to a simple setting.

PhotoSketch ou le SUPER compositing

We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images. We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful; we also evaluate our system using the results from two user studies.

Que peut donner un clavier en réalité augmentée?

Pour suivre la lancée sur le logiciel ARToolkit, voici un sujet assez étonnant : un clavier en réalité augmentée. Ce dernier est composé de deux marqueurs, un représentant le fameux clavier ainsi que sa petite fenêtre d’option et le second placé sur le bout de l’index que l’on peut comparer à une sorte de pointeur pour appuyer sur les touches du clavier. Sur la fenêtre d’option du clavier, on peut sélectionner soit, faire un mouvement latéral du clavier, soit en diagonal ou encore l’éloigner/l’approcher de sois. On peut même apercevoir sur ce clavier un pseudo écran ou la lettre écrite correspond à la touche qui a été appuyée.

Dans la seconde partie de la vidéo on retrouve le système similaire mais cette fois-ci avec le clavier sur le bras et une montre en réalité augmentée. Sur cette montre qui a la particularité d’afficher l’heure (je plaisantes), il y a aussi une commande servant à faire apparaitre ou disparaitre le clavier.

Chères constructeurs de claviers et de souris (dont je ne citerais pas de noms), à quand cette technologie pour nos beaux ordinateurs.

[VIA: La rélaité augmentée]

I think I just love .GIF again...

J'aime... avec un petit effet holographique en plus...







[VIA: Threeframes]

Ikea Heights (or how to save on your location price)

Friend of Epic Fu and general good guy Dave Seger is one of the creators of Ikea Heights, a melodrama (read: understatement) set in an Ikea store in Burbank, California. And I mean they literally film the show in an Ikea store without the store's knowledge, and with customers milling about.

They produced the show for Channel 101, the grandaddy of all funny video sites created by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab that keeps on chugging along and discovering new talent. This is episode 1 of Ikea Heights. Check out the others on Vimeo (Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4) or at the Channel 101 show site.

IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo.

[VIA: EPIC fu]

En passant, je peux pas m'empêcher à une référence à Fight Club:

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics

Evan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like dolphin calls), it also makes complex and beautiful designs.

Reportage chez Total Immersion

[VIA: La réalité augmentée]

James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss

Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.

Chris Anderson on FREE: The Future of Radical Price

Summary
Chris Anderson is the Editor in Cheif of WIRED magazine and author of The Long Tail and FREE: The Future of Radical Price. The Long Tail concept has found broad ground for application, research and emperimentation. Now, in FREE, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.

TEDTalks : Natasha Tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventure - Natasha

Natasha Tsakos presents part of her one-woman, multimedia show, "Upwake." As the character Zero, she blends dream and reality with an inventive virtual world projected around her in 3D animation and electric sound.

Bioengineered Monsters and War Machines Duke it Out in Steampunk WWI

The book trailer for Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan takes us into his steampunk-flavored alternate universe, where the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggers an all-out war where mechanical weapons face off against airships made from giant squid and whales.

We've already shown you concept art for Westerfeld's book, but below is the full-motion trailer from steampunk artist Keith Thompson:

VIA: io9