Tag Archives: Video
Pastiche: Keyword-Based Virtual Tourism
Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.
When most of us think of virtual tourism, we envision a Google Earth-esque satellite overview of a city; Pastiche heads in the other direction entirely with its text-based interface.Rather than navigating the foreign territory of a map, Pastiche allows you to explore the neighborhoods of New York City through tags and keywords that are linked [...]
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Text-to-Voice Wand: The "Voice Stick"
Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.
The ‘Voice Stick’ concept enters to revolutionize the life of the visually impaired and offer a breath of fresh high-tech air to script recognition. Designed by Sung Woo Park, the cutting-edge device is a portable text scanning tool, utilizing the OCR function to identify text and convert this information into voice. This advanced technology allows [...]
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The Credit Crisis Visualized
Posted on 20. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.
The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis. By Jonathan Jarvis. Watch Part 2 of the video here > The above video is a great example of using visualization to explain an incredibly complex and intimidating theme. While on the topic of the credit crisis, below are some additional examples of how visualization can [...]
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Mozilla Labs: Ubiquity Updated
Posted on 08. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.
Ubiquity has just been updated, giving it a significant speed bump over previous versions. Check out the complete overview here > Ubiquity’s goals are to: Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.) Enable on-demand, user-generated [...]
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Britain from above: BBC's Narrative Visualization
Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.
Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird’s eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways. Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before. As more and more [...]
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U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi Virtual Humanoid
Posted on 28. Oct, 2007 by Bradley Hebdon.
Destined to support you in your state of involuntary abstinence, the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi system maps a pretty girl onto the robot’s anatomically correct, green-cloth surface with the help of a sensor-equipped head-mounted display worn by the lonely, lonely man. The result is a 3D character you can touch and “interact” with. Researcher Michihiko Shoji hopes that [...]

