I love it when people take off-the-shelf hardware and start making new things with it. The new Microsoft Kinect camera is essentially a depth camera and can be used, quite successfully as you will see, to create live 3D imagery.
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Sometimes I feel that there’s too much good stuff and too little time. Jan and I have our work cut out if we want to learn to dance like this.
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Amazing Building Mapping – Vimeo Festival from Dan Ilic on Vimeo. [Hat tip to kottke.org]
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I must be missing something. While cute, and certainly playing on a common annoyance that we all suffer at the hands of the generally unaware, the new Windows Mobile 7 commercial message seems to be: “our phones are mediocre enough that you can get on with your life.” I’ve heard the phones are pretty good. [...]
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I first met Wenarto at our gym last summer and it quickly became apparent that he was a “one man wrecking crew” of creativity. He paints, sings opera on YouTube, cooks, drinks and does Crossfit – and then he gets up and does it all over again. Where most artists have fear their creative output [...]
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If you have ever wondered what youth is capable of when they apply hard work and talent towards a common goal, then you need to watch this video. It’s incredibly energizing to watch this Venezuelan youth orchestra play. It looks and feels joyful. At what cost are starving our own nation’s children of liberal arts [...]
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Did any of you know that they had made a documentary about Stephen Merritt of The Magnetic Fields? Yeah, me neither – but it looks like it will be a great character study about a wonderful songwriter. I’ll definitely be plunking down the cash to see this when it comes around. Unfortunately, for us in [...]
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Charlie Rose spent a little more than 20 minutes discussing the iPad and what it means for users, the media markets, and competitors. So why am I posting this to TPN? I think that this device will be defining our relations to much of the media that we consume in the years ahead. This comes [...]
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I’m quite excited to see all of the advances in ebook technology being shown off at CES this week, especially since they stand to move us a lot further down the path of a paperless society. Personally, I wouldn’t mind never using paper again. I get bummed evry time I shop and am handed a [...]
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Shigeru Ban focuses on architecture that is created from re-used material such as shipping containers and paper tubes.
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