Browsing Month January, 2012
Augmented Reality Glasses
By cdharris at January 15, 2012 | 12:46 am | 0 Comment
Daily Mail: "Translucent TV: Lumus' PD-18-2 is a set of spectacles that can beam high-quality images directly into your eyes but allows the user to see through the images more...
Blog , Data Visualization , Emerging Science and Technology , Media and Markets
Will Daily Deals Revitalize Newspapers?
By cdharris at January 14, 2012 | 3:42 pm | 0 Comment
"Groupon is Hastening the Demise of the Newspaper Industry," wrote a trade publication in April 2011. However, some newspapers are betting that "daily deal" offerings could reinvigorate the industry. Newspapers are turning to startups such as Shoutback and Nimble Commerce and others offering consulting and white-label systems to power deal mechanisms. And more...
A Year in Snapshots: Photos around the World for each day of the year
By cdharris at January 3, 2012 | 11:11 am | 0 Comment
Mobile travel guide provider Triposo provides free travel guides, augmented by location based data. With the abundance of data from a variety of open datasets, Triposo has created a remarkable short video showing photos taken around the world, on each day of the year. On a world map, the relative density of the photo data is shown. Notice the brighter dots at more...
