Here’s one student that takes the “Science Fair” to the next level. Bridger Maxwell, a high school student at Utah County Academy of Sciences (UCAS) decided to create a multi-touch table for his Science Fair entry–kinda like an iPhone screen, and Microsoft Surface on a budget.
The multi-touch experience allows for object movement, rotation, growing and shrinking, and even multi-hand, multi-person use. Inspired by movies like Minority Report, Maxwell leverages Apple OS X, code developed during Google Summer of Code called Open Touch, and his own code. The table, made from plexiglass and a dissembled Acer monitor, uses infrared light emitting diodes and an IR camera to detect and transmit fingertip motions as inputs.
Maxwell also expects to experience a future where multi-touch technology becomes a standard way to interact with applications, particularly for graphic manipulation and even gaming. Maxwell submitted his code back to the community at code.google.com/p/corkboard/ and has received coverage on Ars Technica and a local NBC news story.
Maxwell also expects to experience a future where multi-touch technology becomes a standard way to interact with applications, particularly for graphic manipulation and even gaming. While ...
In this video podcast, Dr. Oren Shriki, a science teacher at the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy, speaks about Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair, taking place in Atlanta, May 11-16. (As excitement builds toward the event’s opening, you can follow along on a dedicated Intel ISEF ...
Ripping DVDs, transferring video from cameras, or converting downloaded videos from various sources for Apple products can be a difficult and time consuming process. Now with a software update for the Turbo.264 hardware-based video encoder from Elgato Systems, Macintosh users now have a definitive best and fastest way ...
Now that GDC 2008 is behind us, and the reviews are really rolling in, PodTech takes a wide look at the gaming industry, with IDC gaming analyst Billy Pidgeon.
Gaming’s future likely includes more attention from the courts, as it continues to gain in mass popularity and ...
“It’s been a busy couple of weeks,” Matt Mullenweg said with a grin in response to the question about Automattic’s recent $29M funding round. Interestingly enough, this funding trails the initial investment of $1M that wasn’t fully expended.
In this podcast, Mullenweg talks with Brad Baldwin while ...
Is Flash remaining a secure choice for web service? Will AIR and multi-tenant architecture from Salesforce.com become the industry standard for customer relationship management?
In the first episode of Force.com’s Chalk Talk, Adam Gross presented Salesforce.com’s demo and in part two he introduces James Ward (Technical Evangelist) from ...
Adam Gross (Vice President of Developer Marketing, Salesforce.com) presents an interactive technical conversation involving both SaaS and platform application development technologies as well as the partnerships with Adobe and StakeWare.
On-Demand data bases, infrastructure, integration, developer priorities and resource management all get attention in this setting hosted from ...
The San Jose Mercury News spent a day at the TechCrunch40 conference talking to companies and getting demos of new products. This interview, with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin, is one of several videos we’re publishing from the conference. Tech-watchers will remember two years ago when Flock was being ...
Every since we interviewed John Sullivan, Campaigns Manager for The Free Software Foundation in Boston, our heads have been spinning with the possibilities that ‘Free as in Freedom’ Software holds. If you’re looking at this on the Web, you’ll see that our site is a pimped out Wordpress ...
If you’ve been following Lo-Fi Saint Louis you’ll know that we’ve covered these guys before. This time I caught the 7 Shot Screamers at The Lot Festival, an annual music event hosted by Metropolis St. Louis. It’s always a good time. This is the first of a short ...
When I met Daniel Brusilovsky he impressed me. Why? I can’t exactly say, but everyone who watches this video so far around the office says “wow.” Daniel’s 14, has an IT job and an Apple-focused podcast and we have a neat discussion about lots of things including what social ...
CEO of PodTech Network, John Furrier interviews Cammie Dunaway the CMO of Yahoo on the topic of Internet Strategy. Web 2.0 Social Media marketing has arrived. Leading marketers are re-engineering their practices to include more online components to reach customers.
Learn from Cammie as she ...
At Sapphire 2007, Coté and Thomas Otter talk about gardening developer communities, pulling customer feedback into the community, getting more use from internal blogs and wikis, how Cluetrain thought applies to developing software, and making content creation easy for developers.
Coté talks with SAP’s Thomas Otter at Sapphire 2007 about the current state of human resources, how enterprise software helps HR focus on brining more value to the business, and then goes over an example of a complicated work-flow that calls for “enterprise software.”
This week on the Vloggies Show, Schlomo guest stars. Irina Slutsky goes to Hollywood to get an agent only to discover that Hollywood and Silicon Valley are still worlds apart. She also meets up with her friend John James for another cooking lesson that lands her in some ...
This week on The Vloggies Show, Irina tries lifecasting for a day… and asks Jackson West, “who needs editing when you can stream live?” And the Mommy Vlogger struggles to manage her uber difficult hyperactive child… It’s tough being a parent. But on a more serious note, ...
This week on the Vloggies Show, Irina and the notorious Violet Blue get into it over Anything Goes vs. Civility Enforced. In the news this week, Tim O’Reilly’s Code of Conduct “Manifesto” which suggests that bloggers and vloggers need to mind their p’s and q’s was ...
Ken Kaplan, broadcast and new media manager for Intel’s Global Communications Group, believes storytelling is instrumental to Intel’s social media success. People’s passion for what they know and do gets illustrated through Intel’s podcasts, videopodcasts and blogs. Kaplan describes how their stories are getting more efficient, effective ...
As videobloggingweek2007 comes to a close and approaching one thousand uploads, Irina shares her favorite picks - Perros, Ken’s H&R Block on YouTube, and a special shout out to Jim from The Clip Show who posted a video every day this week.
This week on the Vloggies Show, Irina Slutsky visits Rabbit Bites studio of RabbitBites.com to meet up with the superstar rabbits, Buns and ChouChou. Also this week in the blogoshphere, Josh Wolf’s release form jail made headlines in old and new media. And Irina continues her ...
As videoblogginweek2007 continues, Irina discovers being a journalist today isn’t what she expected….
As videobloggingweek2007 continues, Irina goes Ninja.
Irina Slutsky gets a cooking lesson on the art of boiling an egg as videoblogginweek2007 continues…
Irina Slutsky does her interpretation of what not to do when vlogging for this week’s videobloggingweek 2007.
Irina Slutsky’s picks for Videoblogging Week 2007 (videobloggingweek2007) thus far…. It’s only Monday and already 200 vlogs have been uploaded.
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