Posts Tagged as ‘technology’

24 April 2009

Rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated

You know, newspapers seem to have been “dying” for a long time now.
But imagine you had never heard of a newspaper and somebody told you they’d invented a news medium that:

Was delivered to you automatically every morning
Had a giant, crisp, easy to read display — even for small type and detailed graphics
Was completely portable
Included huge [...]

20 April 2009

Tom Cruise has nothing on these people

How close are we to the gesture-driven data of Minority Report, where computers interact so seamlessly with the experiences of our day-to-day lives that they become completely integral to the way one walks around in the developed world? Closer than you think.
If you haven’t yet seen Pattie Maes and Pranav Mystry’s presentation at TED, treat [...]