Not really a large fan of the game, but a definitely a large fan of the technology and the interfaces that will come with these surfaces, or multi-touch table tops in general.
Hands-on: D&D on the Microsoft Surface
Their work looks like so much fun.
Hologram Google Earth is an amazing prototype computer display. Forget about multi-touch if this is a real display it will blow that away. Amazing video.
code_swarm has several cool open source repository visualizations. An interesting way to show the history and participants.
Scott Johnston has a project to take google earth data and run it though his CNC mill to produce a physical model of the geographic terrain. Brilliant idea, and very interesting.
Since the announcement of the Google X prize, plenty of company and schools are competing to get to the moon. Team FREDNET – Race to the Moon is an open source collaboration to build a community to accomplish the task. I think it’s a brilliant idea. They have to raise the funding [...]
Great blog about working at Atari back in the day. DadHacker worked on donkey kong and lived through the great Atari buy out. Great well written stories about what it was like then along with some priceless wisdom.
NPR Music: Technology Puts the Universal Back in Music has a segment about a company called Voxonic which uses voice samples to construct songs in foreign languages in the creators voice. It sounds like they cut up samples and use those to reconstruct the rhythm and structure. The site has some interesting examples.
ArsTechnica has A tour of Google’s new Experimental Search. Verdict: awesome. I don’t think this is really breaking news, but it is an interesting look into the new features that google is preparing. Undoubtedly from someones 20% projects. I’m a big fan of the timeline view it’s a great way to visualize [...]
Along the same vein as the previous post is Interview with Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios, Spies in the Phishing Underground. An interesting article about how scammers are scamming scammers. That’s a mouthful, but not a surprising situation. Perhaps some crafty person can use the exploits that these jerks use against each [...]