July 2007
19 posts
Sony enters UG video with a Crackle →
Sony Pictures is challenging YouTube’s dominance of the user-generated content market by turning its online acquisition Grouper into a online audition studio.
The Amazing Flying Brothers →
Great example of addictive, simple, physics-based, ‘one-button’ gaming.
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Human Brain Cloud →
Innovative massively multiplayer online word association ‘game’
Nintendo launches face training game →
More leftfield gaming from Nintendo!
Camera module watches your face as you play the game. A Japanese concept called “facening” claims that by doing certain facial exercises, you can make your skin more elastic and have a prettier face.
Try Photosynth →
Try it, together with pictures of Britain.
TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping... →
Two demos: Manipulate large numbers of images with Sea Dragon. Reconstruct 3D models of environments through many photographs using Photosynth.
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Moving Images - Holographic Style →
MIT Media Lab’s holographic video system in R&D. It dynamically generates diffraction patterns using magic.
“we are African apes, cousins of monkeys, descended from fish”
– Richard Dawkins gives Michael J. Behe (disowned by Lehigh University, now of the ‘Discovery’ Institute) a beating in his review of Behe’s second book on Intelligent Design.
Richard Dawkins on ‘The Edge of Evolution’ by Michael J. Behe - New York Times
Video Sniffing
Video Sniffing is picking up signals broadcast by wireless CCTV networks (e.g. in shops and shopping centres) using a cheap video receiver. By law if you are captured on CCTV you have a right to a copy of the footage; therefore you can use your CCTV’d environment as your set with no outlay on cameras. The pre-set camera angles, varying image quality and lack of sound provide a very...
