The whole point of this blog is to post things that I find interesting that you also might find interesting. This video is very interesting. It’s not often that I tune in for a 27 minute video on the internet but this was better than some Hollywood movies. The video is silent so you can [Read More...]
Feb 182010
I don’t think I’ve ever had a post dedicated entirely to a Microsoft product but this is awesome. Below is a video from the TED conference which shows off the augmented reality features in Bing Maps. The video is long, around 8 minutes, but it gets better and better as it progresses.
Res ipsa loquitor, Latin for it speaks for itself: [via The Next Web]
![RCA Airnergy -- Charge Your Phone Wirelessly from Wifi Signals [Coming Summer 2010]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/airnergy-e1263334285197-ae641e0b78469292bcbbbdbfdc50d5b9-200x144-6-nocrop.png)
Tired of your cell phone battery running low or conking out? RCA just unveiled a device which can charge a cell phone (or other MicroUSB device) from a Wifi signal.
There’s a lot of buzz being generated about the MagicJack home cell tower gadget (femtocell) being demoed at CES. There’s also a lot of misinformation and confusion about the device. This post clears it up.
Dec 272009
![MIT Media Lab's "SixthSense" Project [VIDEO]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/sixthsense-bef9026531fae61e528bcc7c3d9394f9-200x33-6-nocrop.png)
“SixthSense” is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
![Augmented Reality Baseball Cards by TOPPS [VIDEO]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/topps_logo.gif){kind=logo}
Below is a video of TOPPS 3D Live baseball cards, the first to include augmented reality. These are truly amazing!
Seiko has re-released its famous talking pyramid clock. Rest assured, there are some improvements to the talking pyramid clock (which apparently have been in development the past 25 years)…
![Ford's SYNC to enable Wifi hot spots on the road [VIDEO]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/ford-sync-logo-4b5cc7cc8f928c3dffc07bb96a74273a-200x54-75-nocrop.jpg){kind=logo}
Alan Mulally, Ford CEO, is the opening speaker at the CES 2010 which will be held in Las Vegas on January 7th. He is expected to discuss upcoming SYNC features that will be included in Ford/Microsoft joint venture. One of the upcoming features was revealed this week — mobile Wifi.
I’m writing from Ubuntu 9.10 inside of Windows 7 using Sun’s VirtualBox 3.1.0, which was released about two weeks ago. VirtualBox is open source software that enables computers to virtualize computers within an operating system. So, for example, you can run Windows in Linux and vice versa.
What are you writing about? I haven’t heard of Augmented Reality. Wikipedia offers the following definition: ”Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with (or augmented by) virtual computer-generated imagery – creating a mixed reality.” In other words, computer graphics [Read More...]
