Music Software
New Life, New Blog
Hi there,
for the rare readers that are following this blog, I would like to say that I will not continue posting here anymore. Indeed I am about finish my Ph.D. and enter a new life. New life means new occupations and new trends, which means new blog. For those who are interested to follow my [...]
SenseSurface: Knobs on the Screen?
I was pointed out to this funny concept called SenseSurface by Fred Beecher.
The main idea is to attach physical controls such as knobs magnetically to an LCD screen, Thanks to a magnetic overlay attached behind the screen. The system is able to senses the knobs position and send the information to a particular [...]
Watchmen: the movie
On of my all time favorite picture novel adapted by the director of “300″. Hopefully they did not screw the spirit of the comic.
Save or Publish?
Probably the small amount of my blogger-readers will say “huuuuu what a Noob, he’s not using blogging clients LoL§§”, but there is something I found quite annoying about the wordpress posting interface on the 2.2.2 version (what is funny is that it is was actually not the case in the 1.5 version I’m using now [...]
Earth Scale Water and Air
I really like this picture. It represents on the left all the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) and on the right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a sphere at sea-level density and shown on the same scale as the Earth. I don’t [...]
Worst Spam Ever
Spotted on boingboing, here is a spam received by Bruce Sterling. It’s worth the look.
Good time of day. You are disturbed by the charitable company Redd Cross of Slovenia. We have the business offer for you. We can offer to you of earnings, thus your salary will make from 1000$ to 2000$ per one month, [...]
F**K Pineapple
Why do I blog this? This graph is awesome !!
Manual Input Sessions.
I descovered recently this interesting concept by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman about a musical concept using hand gestures and figers movements in a audiovisual.
Our concert is performed on a combination of custom interactive software, analog overhead projectors and digital computer video projectors. The analog and digital projectors are aligned such that their projections overlap, [...]
Game Addictions – possibly added to the DSM
A serious review is currently conducted by the American Medical Association to make sense of the complex and confused literature about games and changes in gamers behaviors in order to provide a summary of the research and a set of recommendations for action. Despite the potential for disaster, the AMA recommendations are a measured call [...]
Starcraft w/ Touch-Screen
Gathering some ideas on innovative devices for gamers emerging in a hack form in geek communities, I found this video:
Why Do I Blog This? I am fascinated by the emergence of innovative ideas about ergonomy and user interfaces in game-playing universe poping out from the geeky player communities This example is a good illustration of [...]
