January 2008
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Mupe - Play, Share, Make →
MUPE is an Open Source client-server application platform for creating mobile multi-user context-aware applications, games and services across the Internet.
Interesting game concepts (but not neccesarily well developed or good):
Product Control - Scan barcodes for monsters and fight for product ownership
NeBubble - Buy virtual buzzword companies and make money on the search engine stock...
Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams →
User-generated content?
Access many of the networked security cameras around the globe through a google search. Follow the link and select one of the google searches at the other end.
The Painting Fool
“The Emotionally Aware Painting Fool”
Winner of the British Computer Society’s Machine Intelligence Prize 2007 at the SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The competition awards a prize to the best live demonstration of Artificial Intelligence software which shows the most progress towards machine intelligence.
WatchRichard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes. Check out other quality talks yet to come from TED
WatchWacom Cintiq 12WX LCD Pen Tablet Review (Verdict: Simply Amazing)
Psiloc Locatik - Tracker for S60 →
S60 tracker that shares your location with your friends. Uses GPS but can work on phones without, using cellular mast information and other magical mechanisms.
WatchBug Labs - Lego-style computing blocks for hacker geeks
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'An exploration of human emotion, in six... →
We Feel… madness… love
This is an amazing tool that “feels” the blogosphere’s emotions. Go to the site and click on “Open We Feel Fine” and see what happens. It’s quite an amazing voyeuristic view into the netropolis’ networked feelings, kinda like Vim Winders’ angels hearing everyone’s thoughts in Wings of Desire.
We Feel Fine / Movements:
Madness, the first movement, opens with a wildly...
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WatchThe 1st of the Japanese Bug Fights series. Rather unpleasantly this first battle ends in death. Would it be any less unpleasant if the creatures were virtual? What about if they were just losing their limbs?
Westport3D →
Westport in West Ireland has been 3D digitised using long distance laser scanning, a process that sends out an 800m laser beam over 360° to capture about 20,000 X,Y and Z co-ordinates each second.
Google Earth users can take a 3D virtual tour of the town from 16 January 2008.
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Progeny Of Blind Cavefish Can 'Regain' Their Sight →
and a study that suggests eye loss was from natural selection whereas pigmentation loss from genetic drift.
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Evolution: Read All About It! →
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Institute of Medicine today released a handsomely illustrated 88-page booklet, titled Science, Evolution, and Creationism —-intended for wide dissemination—- that explains why evolution is science and creationism is not.
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Two Explosive Evolutionary Events Shaped Early... →
Possibly fuelled by increasing oxygen levels. This first period appears to have produced the first bilateral animals that left fossil traces, with a contemporary flatworm study suggesting bilateral emergence preceded triblastic bodies. Evidence has been growing that there was an extended and fruitful period before the Cambrian; this gene study questions the Cambrian Explosion.
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