Emerging Science and Technology
Speech intention can be decoded from brainwaves
By cdharris at February 2, 2012 | 8:20 am | 0 Comment
UC Berkeley scientists have demonstrated a method to reconstruct words that a person may be thinking, by examining brainwaves using fMRI. The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients' brains, via implanted electrodes. Computer models reconstructed words/sounds from the signal patterns. Although the possible uses more...
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Physibles and the future of brands
By cdharris at February 1, 2012 | 9:57 am | 0 Comment
Brands have a psychological reality in that they provide differentiation for goods that might otherwise be seen as interchangeable commodities. I give you vodka, salt, and baking soda, as pertinent examples. The advent of 3-D printers in recent years, though, introduces a possibility that branded goods may have less utility in the future. The Pirate Bay, more...
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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...
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Embedded Camera-Eye
By cdharris at July 10, 2011 | 2:42 pm | 0 Comment
After losing an eye in a car accident, Tanya Vlach is trying to raise money to have a webcam fashioned like an eye installed in the non-functional eye socket. The prosthetic camera-eye is designed to be waterproof, capable of wireless HD video transmission at 720p, and will include zoom and still-capture features, activated by blinking. On Vlach's wishlist for the eye -- more...
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Billboards With Facial Recognition Tech Collect Demographic Data
By cdharris at July 19, 2010 | 6:22 pm | 0 Comment
A group of Japanese train stations are testing a new set of billboards with facial recognition technology. ?The billboards have been compared to the personalized signage in Minority Report. The stated goal of the project is to collect demographic data on people in the immediate area that are potentially exposed to the billboard's advertising. ? "The displays are part more...
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We’re watching
By cdharris at October 18, 2008 | 1:23 pm | 0 Comment
A Canadian company has developed a technology called Eyebox2 that it says can monitor the gaze of passersby and respond to shifts in attention, even tracking multiple people at once, and even from more than 30 feet away.The company says the advertising potential is large, wherein outdoor or unconventional ad space could be sold "by the eyeball." In more...
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We’re out of bandwidth?
By cdharris at September 13, 2008 | 2:37 pm | 0 Comment
We are starting to hit the limits of the internet's capacity to carry data, say experts. So far applications such as streaming video have been able to function thanks to excess capacity paid for by investors in the internet boom, but which went relatively unused until recently. Now the merger of video delivery and the internet (and IPTV in general) will begin more...
How to make “Internet TV”
By cdharris at August 1, 2008 | 2:23 pm | 0 Comment
Simple online guide, sponsored by Participatory Culture Foundation, on how to create and publish video to the net. more...
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Biometric + Digital Art at Venice Biennale
By cdharris at June 1, 2007 | 3:24 pm | 0 Comment
Didn't make it to the Venice Biennale, but if I were there, I wouldn't want to miss the installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer called "Pulse Room." 100 lightbulbs are connected to EKG sensors and thus are "controlled by the heartbeat of the public." The exhibit runs from June 10 - November 21 (2007) in the Palazzo Van more...
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We’re not going to make it….
By cdharris at March 16, 2007 | 9:05 am | 0 Comment
At this year's TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design), where attendees are capped at 1,000 and tickets cost $6,000 each, John Doerr, the famous venture capitalist whose firm bootstrapped such startups as Amazon and Google, began his climate-crisis talk with the words, "I'm really scared. I don't think we're going to make it"- and was too more...
Tracking the Congressional attention span
By cdharris at February 20, 2007 | 12:08 pm | 0 Comment
Arstechnica reports: "While text mining 330,000 New York Times articles poses an interesting challenge, it's not as interesting as sifting through 70 million words (from over 70,000 unique documents) found in the Congressional Record. A team of political science researchers found that their software was able to answer questions too difficult for humans to more...
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The “Amazon Noir Caper”
By cdharris at February 20, 2007 | 11:04 am | 0 Comment
Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard stole copyrighted books from Amazon.com by using sophisticated robot-technology as programmed by Cirio. Amazon sued the group and a settlement was just announced. The "Amazon Noir" Robots manipulated Amazon's "Search Inside this Book" feature, forcing the feature to provide the complete volumes more...
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Printing on falling water
By cdharris at January 23, 2007 | 1:25 pm | 0 Comment
BoingBoing reports that "The Jeep Waterfall", a water installation seen at a recent Jeep car show, ?is a 25-foot-high sheet of falling water that can display arbitrary bitmaps in falling water, using a mechanism "similar to an inkjet printer."? A video of the exhibit is on YouTube. Apparently, a professor at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee,? Dr. Pevnick, creates the more...
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Gesture Recognition and Dance
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:46 am | 0 Comment
Recently premiered at the Tate Modern,? the performance piece "Echo" generates a pointcloud via gesture recognition technologies that both represents the dancer's movements and interacts with them.? According to the developers, the team,? UnitedVisualArtists, used an LED screen, the Lighthouse R10 LED screen, 8m wide by 11m high along with Point Grey Lab Bumblebee2 stereo more...
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Public Broadcasting in a Cart
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 11:27 am | 0 Comment
Ricardo Miranda Z??iga, instructor of Digital Arts at College of New Jersey, introduces recent immigrants to his Public Broadcast Cart. It is a shopping cart outfitted with all the technical ingredients that enables any pedestrian to become an active producer of an audio broadcast. The audio stream is available to anyone online and simultaneously transmitted via speakers, more...
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