Attention all creative directors who never bothered to learn Photoshop: here’s an amazing new Wacom tool that transforms your sketches into digital files.
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
Via Discovery News
The Lytro camera makes taking quick snapshots quick again. When you click to take a photo, the camera captures all the light information it can and provides you with a digital file you can edit later.
Born out of founder Ren Ng’s years of research and PhD thesis, this development in digital photography has the potential to transform still shots into more interactive, varied pictures as the user can edit the photo to switch between different points of focus, adjust the light levels, etc.
Essentially, the technology lets you take your photos more quickly, and then play with them for longer. What sounds better than that?
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FRAMED* is a simple, modern display that hints at the inevitable presence of these kinds of screens in all our surroundings. Home, work, wherever — as the technology develops, so will the frame for showcasing it.
PBS explores ways to adapt classroom education for kids growing up in a digital world.
Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century.
ZeroTouch is an optical multi-touch technique using infrared sensors. It can be mounted over a desktop, computer screen, or hang in the air.
With the ability to detect 20+ fingers and track objects in free space, this opens up a whole new world of interaction possibilities!
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Check out Statigr.am for a fun analysis of your activity on Instagram.
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This innovative software uses Nike+ GPS data to create stunning custom visuals. Tracking a runner’s speed and style, the software produces abstract maps and visualizations of runs throughout the city. At a lunch event for Nike+2 City Pack series, participants played with the software and printed images of their runs as posters and as designs on custom Nike shoe boxes.
Via YesYesNo
DisplayContent is a thought-provoking augmented reality proof of concept to come out of the Pachube International Internet of Things Hackathon.
via fastcompany
A cool new effort to discourage unnecessary printing — save as a WWF (a web-only, un-printable document) and save a tree!
Esper Domino, a super cool wireless network developed by Jarashi Suki and IAMAS Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group, allows dominos to seemingly interact with each other without any actual contact.
via WHATTHECOOL