Photosynth, TED and BMW

[Chard]

I just found out about this new technology called Photosynth. Take a look a this short video.

I've tried Phtosynth out and it is way cool. I can't wait to see Seadragon in action.

Also of note is TED. I've spent too much time exploring this site.

One last thing, check out the BMW ad at the end of the video. I don't know which is more exciting.

[DevilAlumna]

Another video for you:

Photosynth:
http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vi...9-3e75e0df5eaf

There are several more photosynth videos on Soapbox... (go figure, that whole MSFT connection...)

[JasonEvans]

To merely describe that technology as jaw-dropping does not do it justice.

Every so often I wonder what the future of the web is and how all this data, information, stuff can ever be made into something more useful adn user-friendly than its current very clunky form... well, we just saw the answer. The notion that every photo, video, drawing posted on the web could be connected like this-- well I don't even now what to say about it but it is going to change the way we live and learn and interract with the world around us.

-Jason "someday very soon, I'll be able to travel the world and experience everything worth seeing without leaving my home... I am not sure that is a good thing but it sure is cool" Evans

[hc5duke]

I'm glad I watched the whole thing because the first half was ok but the second half was some pretty amazing stuff.

As for the Hydrogen BMW, I don't want this to move to the PPB but I'm not a huge fan of the Hydrogen7 - this car gets 14 mpg on a V12 engine (while being slower than a Focus in 0-60) not accounting for hydrogen. The hydrogen part only gets you 125 miles, which means you won't make it from one hydrogen station to another without dipping into your gas tank, until more infrastructure is set up (let's say a decade or so, if you're lucky). Hardly the eco-friendly car the ad makes it out to be. If I wanted a car that gets 14 mpg, I'd rather get the Aston-Martin Vanquish that was in the newspaper ad in the presentation [/me ducks]

[DevilAlumna]

For you technophiles out there, Microsoft and NASA are putting Photosynth in use for the upcoming space shuttle launch.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...oftware06.html

http://media.labs.live.com/photosynth/nasa/default.htm

[DevilAlumna]

Photosynth hits primetime. Literally.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...yndication=rss

One of Microsoft's most impressive technologies in recent years starred in Wednesday night's episode of the popular crime drama, "CSI: NY."

In the episode, the detectives investigate a slaying during a high-school prom.

They use Photosynth, software that stitches together images and creates a three-dimensional map, to re-create the scene of a slaying. In this case, the raw material is cellphone photos taken by students at the dance, which the software uses to build a "synth" of the high-school gym at the time of the crime.

I'm not a CBS watcher, so I missed the show. Any junkies out there care to give a review?

[DevilAlumna]

And while I'm in the thread of random, cool things:

Muscle-Computer interfaces:

http://technology.newscientist.com/a...2_head_dn13770

Microsoft researchers are developing an armband worn on the forearm that recognises finger movements by monitoring muscle activity. They have called it MUCI, which stands for muscle-computer interface.

Tho this concept has been around for quite awhile with prosthetics, this band is interesting in that it gets trained to 95% recognition with simple calibration tests done by the wearer; and it's as easy as slipping a cuff on your arm, no tricky sensor placement.

One step closer to interacting in a normal (e.g. non-keyboard/mouse/button) way with computers (which are also expanding definitions of form factors and purposes.)