San Diego Fires and Disaster Reporting 2.0

The San Diego fires this week have helped to demonstrate that social media communities such as Twitter are valued communication channels - especially so in extreme circumstances.

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Twitter hashtags for emergency coordination and disaster relief

Great idea of how we can tag posts in Twitter via the #hashtag convention, in a similar vein to how @username got started. Great example of this approach in practice following the San Diego Fires (#sandiegofire).

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Information R/evolution

This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.

High Quality WMV download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?atyamxuyn2p

Boston Dynamics BIGDOG Robot

"Check out this new video from Boston Dynamics: the thing hauls 150 pounds, picks its way across rocky fields and steep slopes, and leaps into the air like a steeplechasing horse. But what remains BigDog's most impressive feature is its ability to maintain its balance, without human intervention; the Dog is so surefooted, it'll take a hard kick, and still stay upright."
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The Minority Report Interface is on the way (X windows style)

MPX already supported multiple input devices. Which blows pretty much all assumptions in user interfaces (input) out of the water. (with video)

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This is what the web looked like in 1994

Wow. We never thought about it this way before, but if the web still looked like this, you wouldn't need an iPhone with Safari to surf the web on your phone.

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Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look

"Behind the scenes with the coffee table that will change the world."

Kurzweil - Killer App Conf. - Keynote Part 1

Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition, health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity and futurism.

The following is part one of Ray Kurzweil's keynote address at Killer App Expo 7 in May of 2007.
http://www.killerappexpo.com/

Obscura HP Multi-Touch Video Wall WSJ D5 HP conference

Cool!!!! Check this out. TED!!!!!!!

This shows the future and current capabilities of computers today. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!:-)



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TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo

BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT: The new Microsoft Surface

The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution. Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technolog



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Google Mapplets - Developers Demo

Google Mapplets are a new feature of Google Maps that combines the Google Gadgets API with the Google Maps API to allow embedding mini-applications within the Google Maps website.

Use it at http://maps.google.com/preview

Sony's flexible, full-color OLED - YouTube

Sony unveiled what is billed as the world's first flexible, full-color OLED display built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, is 0.3 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams.

UMPC Future?

Mobile devices of the future look pretty cool.

TED Conference Launches All-New Website 16 April 07

More than 100 full-length TED talks
First-of-its-kind video player
A unique ratings system
High-resolution video
Ideas, insight and inspiration
Detailed talk summaries and speaker biographies
Innovative ways to browse talks
Social-networking tools
Free site membership



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IBM Touts Breakthrough in 3-D Chips

International Business Machines Corp. said it achieved a breakthrough in developing a three-dimensional semiconductor chip that can be stacked on top of another electronic device in a vertical configuration long sought by engineers to reduce size and power use.



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James Burke predicts teh intartubes in 1978

Via: VideoSift

Remapping the Universe

In this video, Jeff Han and Phil Davidson demonstrate how a multitouch driven computer screen will (someday) change the way we work and play.

Podtech MS Research clip