Geolocation and Psychogeography
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...
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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Visualizing Science Readers
By cdharris at December 8, 2010 | 2:25 pm | 0 Comment
Curious about what scientists might be reading?? Springer (noted publisher of more than 5 million scientific and academic titles) has launched a new analytics tool that reveals how its users and subscribers are downloading its content. There are a number of interactive visualization tools at the site,? including a world map illustrating the origin of download more...
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The Marfa Ring
By Rhizome.org Artwork at December 11, 2009 | 6:59 pm | 0 Comment
The Marfa Ring project is an experiment in colonizing the virtual geography of the small town of Marfa, Texas by creating a "Web Ring" of sites about it. Due to the Ring's interlinking, Google search results are skewed in favor of the ring sites (which vary in levels of veracity and intent) as opposed to Marfa's legitimate web presence. 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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Visualizing Google Search
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 12:51 pm | 0 Comment
Google,? at SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston, showed an example of its own "search mashup" data visualization:? a spinning globe on which searches on Google are displayed in real-time as slowly rising dots in reference to their location and color-coded according to language. The idea is seductively simple in that it revealed the individual thoughts, motivations, or desires of the more...
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Bus Ads change with location
By cdharris at October 20, 2006 | 10:56 am | 0 Comment
A new technology allows an ad-wrapped bus to change its ads as it changes its location. Now in test in London, the system automates message delivery in response to GPS location. For example, an ad for a fitness center in Marble Arch will appear when entering that neighborhood and in Charing Cross: "Discover a restaurant in more...
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Conflux 2006 Festival
By cdharris at September 3, 2006 | 12:54 pm | 0 Comment
Conflux, the NYC-based conference and collective on the topic of psychogeography, will take place in NY on September 14-17, more...
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Meet and Greet
By cdharris at August 11, 2006 | 1:03 pm | 0 Comment
Another MIT Media Lab project gives us The IBand -- a wearable computer-in-a-bracelet capable of exchanging contact data and?biographical information during a handshake. Described as a way to "manage your relationships",? the LED display integrated into the device tracks the number of hands shaken, displays personal images, and exchanges and stores contact information.? more...
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Search for the visualizer
By cdharris at August 7, 2006 | 2:33 pm | 0 Comment
Webbrain.com offers search visualization that?permits users to "explore a dynamic picture of related information, instead of searching through long lists of text." This kind of search is conceptual,?? with the main topic relevant to the search query appearing in the center of the diagram, and any related topics in a branch formation around it.?? For people who are more more...
Mashup Fever
By cdharris at June 11, 2006 | 1:21 pm | 0 Comment
For months the announcements of new mashups have been coming fast and furious. Earlier this year there were only a few hundred mashups... then a few thousand... and every day there are more. It reminds me of 1994-1995 all over again, when new websites were being added to Netscape every day and announced in such places as "best of the net.." more...
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Injected RFID required for employment…
By cdharris at February 24, 2006 | 4:39 pm | 0 Comment
Slashdot recently reported that a Cincinnati corporation is requiring employees to access its datacenter through an implanted, glass-encapsulated Verichip RFID tag. Previously, they gained access through an RFID tag attached to a keychain or lavaliere. more...
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Getting Tagged
By cdharris at February 18, 2006 | 6:04 am | 0 Comment
RFID implants in humans are no longer mere science fiction. At least 30 individuals have received RFID chip implants and have even established an online forum to discuss the philosophical implications... and the methods associated with implantation. Uses of the implants vary from controlling locks on home and automobile entrances to security for computer equipment, more...
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Call me… or not
By cdharris at January 25, 2006 | 4:43 pm | 0 Comment
The IDEO Identity Card Concept Project contains a number of interesting ideas from designers who play with the concept of "identity" and portable media exchange.?? Quite a few include rather explicit identity exchanges,? in the form of DNA -- an embedded hair,? drop of blood, or fingerprint.? The example pictured here is a perforated card which allows the giver to punch more...
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New bluetooth connection phone threat
By cdharris at January 23, 2006 | 4:08 pm | 0 Comment
At least three new trojan horses, or programs that are disguised as legitimate applications, are currently threatening to spread via Bluetooth or multimedia messages (MMS) and can affect any phone running the Symbian operating system. One virus, the Bootton.E Trojan horse, restarts the mobile device but it also releases corrupted more...
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