New York City’s St.Regis Hotel has just opened a technology-driven, interactive wine bar that lets guests explore for themselves the wide variety of wines available.
Adour features built-in interactive technology from Potion Design helps patrons choose a wine by allowing them to browse Adour’s complete wine list by wine type, country and varietal. Computer menus are […]
I’ve seen a few campaigns that use the web and mobile interaction but none as engaging as this example. LMFM have created a site for an upcoming book 3 Para that marries film, a mobile application and a voice recognition system, so you dictate what action the soldiers take. Since I’m not in the UK […]
This is one of the stairways at Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway.
27 meters of delightful light shows.
Just beautiful.
Via: TrendHunter.
We’ve all seen a touch-screen. But now it’s the turn for a touch-screen scanner that, oddly enough, records the content of an object from the face that we see, not the machine. I think there must be some sort of special camera installed on the ceiling above.
The part with the moving mouse is specially cool.
Via: ComputerLove.
According to Wired, Yahoo’s adoption of OpenID is a huge victory for the OpenID foundation.
Until now, despite support from larger sites like AOL and Plaxo, OpenID has remained largely a tool of the geek-elite, but Yahoo’s announcement is set to change that since it provides even those Yahoo users who’ve never heard of OpenID a simple way to use it. And that in turn gives startup sites an even greater incentive to support OpenID logins.
Right now there are roughly 120 million OpenID accounts. Add Yahoo’s 248 million users worldwide, and OpenID is set to triple in size.
I posted about this technology a few months ago. This online application allows users to upload an image and resize it dynamically. The image will lose only the areas of the image that are not crucial while keeping the same balance and composition no matter the proportions.
Try it for yourself.
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Fred Wilson, a.k.a. “A VC” on the need for a great Chief Technology Officer:
Great managers are hard to find in any line of work. But managing developers is even harder. The better the developer the harder they are to manage. I assume its a bit like managing high maintenance entertainers. The best developers are artists who are often moody, are anarchists who have bursts of creativity and equally long periods of uselessness. They are strong willed people who will fight with their colleagues over anything and everything. The people who have mastered the art of managing these kinds of people are a rare breed and every great technology-based business needs one of them.
Wilson invests in start up tech companies, but the same can be said for the agency business. We’re all in communications technology today, as well as marketing communications. Providing strong leadership for the code monkeys is good stuff, but the ability to translate the thinking into English for one’s team members and clients is arguably even more important.
An interesting technology from the Australian Centre for Visual Technology called VideoTrace. You can download the paper describing the technology here
The simple models it generate are perfect for Google Earth 3D models, low poly video games and Michael Gondry film clips.
With the huge coverage multi touch screens, photosyth and other international based technology has been getting lately it’s nice to see some Aussies doing something interesting too.
The next Siggraph is in LA during August with the first Asia Siggraph being held in Singapore in December 08.
Street Art rocks.
Technology rocks.
Artificial Dummies… rock.
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Sometimes you need to post a video online and the number of views, favorites and links doesn’t matter. What matters is quality. Youtube’s quality is a low 200kps and your video, let’s say your show reel or beautifully crafted TVC, looks awful in Youtube’s 320×240 blurry vision.
There is an alternative which offers all the community sharing aspects of Youtube but with increased quality. Not only that it supports HD. Upload a 1280×720 clip and Vimeo will auto create a small version (400×300) and allow viewers to watch the full HD footage. Here’s Vimeos HD FAQ which explains more.
Users have the option of turning off HD at any time and load the smaller clip so bandwidth is not an issue.
Click here to see a comparison of videos on both Youtube and Vimeo.
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