26.11.10

About Copia

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..Copia, is the social reading platform.

To try to make this vision real, Copia’s platform has three parts:

a social-networking website, where you connect with friends and other readers of the same books to discuss what you’re reading, share recommendations and ratings. To make connecting a little easier, you can sign in with a Facebook account, or create a separate Copia account. Once you’re in, Copia can connect with LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
a desktop e-reading client for Mac and PC where you can buy books through the Copia store (EPUB with Adobe DRM, so you’ll need an Adobe account) and read those books on your desktop or laptop. You can also read PDFs or DRM-free EPUB files in the client.
An iPad app that like the desktop, includes both your e-book library and the store.

29.10.10

Be the controller..and not only! [Xbox 360 Kinect™]

With thousands of sporting events and the interactive social network of Xbox LIVE, ESPN on Xbox 360 brings the excitement of a stadium experience into your living room.

Access over 3500 live, global events from ESPN3.com, including out-of-market programming, plus daily clips from ESPN.com. Enjoy features like HD programming, on-demand viewing and instant scores.

With Kinect™ control the action right from your couch with just your voice or the wave of your hand. Follow your favorite leagues, predict the winners and connect with friends, fans and rivals all from your living room.

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14.10.10

Ciao Romaaa!

It was my big pleasure to participate @ Rome meeting for the European Child Alert Automated System (ECAAS) with all partners from Portugal, Cyprus, Italy, UK represantative and of course Greece and all the team leaders from The Smile Child.

It was 3 full days with presentations, discussions, comments, questions and answers after my presentation and the live demo of the System of European Child Alert Automated System. All well done!

I am honored, i made too many friends from different countries!

Thanks Monica Lupo, for her kind hospitality!

Here is my presentation:

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tnk u! :)

11.10.10

Pico Play Anywhere

This demonstration captures touch information by light reflected off a laser illuminated plane and uses that to interact with a pico-projected display on the same surface.

9.10.10

MIT Media Lab Medical Mirror

You can check a person's vital signs — pulse, respiration and blood pressure — manually or by attaching sensors to the body. But a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program is working on a system that could measure these health indicators just by putting a person in front of a low-cost camera such as a laptop computer's built-in webcam.

1.10.10

Hologram, first try..!

30.9.10

AXA brings print ads to life

28.9.10

The Copenhagen Wheel

Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bikes that also function as mobile sensing units. The Copenhagen Wheel allows you to capture the energy dissipated while cycling and braking and save it for when you need a bit of a boost. It also maps pollution levels, traffic congestion, and road conditions in real-time.

BlackBerry PlayBook

26.9.10

Mozilla Seabird: A Community-driven Mobile Phone Concept

The Mozilla Seabird, part of the Mozilla Labs’ Concept Series, is an experiment in how users might interact with their mobile content as devices and technology advances. Drawing on insights culled from the Mozilla community through the project’s blog, a focus quickly developed around frustrating physical interactions.

While mobile CPUs, connectivity and development platforms begin approaching that of desktops, the lagging ability to efficiently input information has grown ever more pronounced.

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25.9.10

Information Revolution ( SoftBank )

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Respect.. "Every involving technology..never change the value of human love. Together we open the doors of new century.."

18.9.10

The Future of Self-Service Banking

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11.9.10

#RIP Microsoft :( [/cc Microsoft workers]

...and Windows Mobile 7 for me. Sorry, this is not appropriate event by professionals, one more for IT guys...no guys.

Try more, try to catch iPhone || Blackberry! ..but, u can? Is .. is it too late? do you also forgot Android?

Shame on you guys & gals! This is not funny, no joke. :(

For those don't know about, read more ++

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10.9.10

Augmented ID concept: Recognizr

Accurate mobile face detection and recognition using Polar Rose's FaceLib. Recognizr shows how powerful computer vision and 3D graphics can be used to create fast, precise and aesthetic augmented reality. This prototype runs on Android.

I..Facebook.."Like" ..only for Discounts! :p

Discounts and ‘social badging’ are the primary reasons consumers ‘like’ brands on Facebook, according to a new study!!

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9.9.10

This is it - the World's first Android TV "Window to the World"

Surf the internet, download apps, watch TV, chat with friends.... This is the complete connected experience. [ from Scandinavia | People of Lava]

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5.9.10

Impressive..really impressive! I love my iMac!

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...still working as a new! ... created August 11, 2006!

a Happy Apple iMac owner! :) :) :)

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3.9.10

Future of Screen Technology

This is the result of the Open Innovation experiment. It is an experience video showing the future of screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent screens and e-ink displays, to name a few.

26.8.10

...only? ..for a game? ..want so much info 4 me? [.Just leave Sony MMW]

Sony has been running a new Facebook app over the last few weeks, called Media Monster Wars..

If you try open the app, they ask to permit all these...

..no, tnx!

Next.

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2.8.10

X PRIZE..WENDY SCHMIDT OIL CLEANUP X CHALLENGE

The X PRIZE Foundation is announcing the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE to find the most effective and environmentally-safe solutions for capturing oil from all spills at the spill site, thus limiting their impacts and protecting our oceans, shores, marshes, and, importantly, the health and well-being of the people and wildlife which live and thrive in these communities.

Hololight

LED light that emits simulated parallel light, on a par with sunlight.

28.7.10

A multitouch surface computer on the cheap!!

This video demos some of the touchscreen applications made possible with this custom rig and open-source software.

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Internet Chess Table

WoW!!

The Internet Chess Table is a project for playing internet chess on a 3d board with real pieces.

27.7.10

Geospatial Revolution

We live in the Global Location Age. Where am I? is being replaced by, Where am I in relation to everything else?

Penn State Public Broadcasting is developing the Geospatial Revolution Project, an integrated public media and outreach initiative about the world of digital mapping and how it is changing the way we think, behave, and interact.

more++ http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/

13.7.10

Yess..Social Media power with Interactive Digital Signage!

..means Twitter...of course! ;-)

Canadian Tourism has launched a new campaign aiming to grab interest from busy Americans in the hope to lure them up to Canada for a holiday. And to do this they’ve jumped on the twitter wagon with interesting digital storescapes or what they are calling live twitter murals, that show aggregated tweets and photos from selected search terms on twitter, the tweets are pulled live to large screens in prominent locations in New York, Chicago and L.A.

Passers by can interact with the content that is being tweeted by flicking through tweets and enlarging images on the fly through seriously big touch screens.

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source: DigitalBuzz

12.7.10

Nissan Leaf iAd Demo Video

Video demo of the Nissan Leaf iAd, showing how iAd banners sit in-app and interact with the user.

Meet the Doodlers

6.7.10

RoboCam - A Web Browser Controlled Mobile Camera Platform

RoboCam is a web-based telepresence camera platform built on the iRobot Create and the Parallax Propeller chip. Using a web browser, RoboCam can be remotely controlled from any location that has internet access.

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5.7.10

Slurp: smart office

...a digital eyedropper for manipulating abstract, digital material

Slurp is tangible interface for manipulating abstract digital information as if it were water. Taking the form of an eyedropper, Slurp can extract (slurp up) and inject (squirt out) pointers to digital objects. They have created Slurp to explore the use of physical metaphor, feedback, and affordances in tangible interface design when working with abstract digital media types.

Their goal is to privilege spatial relationships between devices and people while providing new physical manipulation techniques for ubiquitous computing environments.

more @ MIT Media Lab ++

4.7.10

Cross Platform Mobile App Development with Appcelerator

Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, demonstrates his company's Titanium tool for developing cross platform apps.

Palm executives including VP, Directors, and Senior Product Managers lead a course on mobile application development on the WebOS. Students have the unique opportunity to attain the technical knowledge needed to create their own apps, get insider information about the application submission process at companies like Apple and Palm, and network with various members of Palm's executive team.

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

Stanford Engineering:
http://soe.stanford.edu/

Robocar - Car Robotics Platform

Algorithm for autonomous vehicles, technical assistance risk aversion can be used for research and auto parking. In addition, the wireless network, make communication between the vehicle and the car can also be controlled studies that were to follow the car in front.

http://www.diginfo.tv

3.7.10

Arduino Scooterputer

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2.7.10

NETRA: Cellphone-based Optometry Solution /by MIT

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MIT Media Labs researchers are field-testing a smartphone application and $1 plastic lens attachment system called NETRA — Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment — for eye exams.

NETRA is designed for doctors in developing countries that may not otherwise have access to expensive ophthalmological equipment for eye exams.

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30.6.10

Unilever's Smile Ice Cream Vending Machine

At Cannes 2010

The vending machine has an interesting feature, it comes with a facial recognition that detects your gender, age, mood and even how much you are smiling! Called the "Share Happy" machine, it's sole purpose at Cannes was to deliver free ice cream to those who were smiling. Detected through the "Smile-O-Meter", the machine would show you how much you were smiling and when you could smile no more it would give you a free ice cream.

But beyond the free ice cream, it's actually pretty exciting to think about what type of products a vending machine with this technology might be able to dynamically sell in the future!

more++: digitalbuzzblog.com

20.6.10

PR2 Robot Plays Pool

Pretty impressive!!

With only a small team of developers and a week's worth of development, the PR2 can now play pool!

19.6.10

Museum Tour Guide Robotinho

18.6.10

An online video editor, available in TestTube

21.5.10

Helloooooo..Google TV & ..

..Sony & Logitech too, welcome to our dev life...at last! :-)

TV meets web. Web meets TV

Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet.

Enhance your TV experience with the power of the web. The Sony Internet TV provides richer internet access so you can browse the web just like you would from a computer. Seamlessly navigate between websites and TV channels or enjoy both at the same time. On the same screen. more++

Sony® will be providing registered members with exciting news for the Sony® Internet TV very soon. In the future, look for more extras such as images, examples, tips and techniques to help you create exciting new applications! more++

Olá from Lisbon!

ECAAS (European Child Alert Automated System) LAUNCH IN LISBON.

"Technology behind European Child Alert Automated System"...this is my presentation.

A big tnx to Alexandra for her warm hospitality!! :-)

A big tnx for my good friend Christos :-)

16.4.10

"Bring Them Back" ...mean, Parthenon Marbles!

more @ www.bringthemback.org

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20.2.10

Barcelona Mobile World Congress 2010 #MWC10

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My experience from my visit @ Mobile World Congress 2010 Barcelona.

A big thanks @ Vodafone guys and namely App Planet guys for their kind invitation! It was my big honor :-)