*Gestural interfaces are showing up faster than I can blog them. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets /2012/05/ubi-turns-any-wall-in to-a-touchscreen-using-microso fts-kinect/ " "We can turn any surfa...
*If the infrared beams that power Kinects and Leaps can penetrate that elastic fabric, weve got a very interesting haptic interface here. Imagine this with sub-millimeter accuracy. *In some ways its ...
*Better call LOUDER! That scenes getting really weird really fast! via @cperey Call for Papers: Indoor Positioning and Navigation Workshop at ISMAR2012 November 5, 2012 Deadline for Position papers: ...
Ken, Matt, Doug, and Jonathan do a Maker Faire recap, and talk a bit about the "controversy" surrounding the GeekDad issue of Wired magazine. Enjoy!
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*I dont know why that so funny; of course her ancestor designed the Eiffel Tower, somebody had to do it. http://www.tehelka.com/story_m ain52.asp *I really like Tehelkas culture coverage. Even Tehelka...
*Well, the ergonomics of pads and gloves are gonna need a lot of work... At the very least somebody in the AR biz needs to come up with a rubber clip-on pad-holder you can securely slip your hand thr...
HP has confirmed that it has lost some "key members" of the team overseeing Enyo, a framework for developing HTML5 applications that grew up alongside the companys ill-fated webOS mobile oper...
Microsoft has said that the upcoming free version of its new Visual Studio 11 programming kit will only be used to build Windows applications with the new Metro touch interface that debuts with Windo...
? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? runMobileCompatibilityScript(m yExperience1656904524001, anId); brightcove.createExperiences() ; BMW has released details on its refreshed 2013 7 Series flagship before it goes on ...
All Van Jacobson wanted to do was upload a few documents to the internet. Unfortunately, it was 1985.
The first Project Glass-shot video features a trampoline and backflip raising the bar for all product videos to the production quality of your dads Super-8 videos.
Wired editors talk seriously addictive games, like Diablo III, on this episode of the Game|Life podcast.
The ODOC is the future-proof iPhone dock that wont fall of the desk when you grab your iPhone.
In the 1850s, murderers learned of a fast-acting, incredibly lethal and virtually undetectable poison: nicotine. Science writer and Elemental blogger Deborah Blum unravels the toxic nature of this na...
It was the $10 billion acquisition that helped sink Leo Apotheker. Larry Ellison called it overpriced. And today, it?s HP CEO Meg Whitman?s biggest headache: Autonomy.
Broadcasters are claiming in federal lawsuits Thursday that Dish Networks DVR service, which allows the automatic skipping of commercials, breaches copyright law and retransmission agreements. The su...
The Armys mad for smartphones. Its testing Android devices it bought from the local electronics store to see how they operate on its experimental, homebrewed data network. And one thing it seems to h...
Siris had a rough ride since its launch with the iPhone 4S in October. And now it looks like Apple employees may also be upset that Siri hasnt yet matured into the digital assistant of our dreams.
NASA has released a set of guidelines that encourage future lunar landers to remain a respectful distance from its historic artifacts, such as the Apollo landing sites.
Whos the most prolific Google search takedown requester? Microsoft. But heres the kicker: Microsoft has asked Google to remove URLs from its search results, while leaving some of those very same URLs...
With dense urban centers and housing that was built hundreds of years ago, Europeans have long known how to make their tiny spaces feel triumphant. But this apartment in the Montparnasse neighborhood...
The Samsung Focus 2 is a new Windows Phone for AT&T that has two key things going for it: slick looks and a low $50 price tag.
NASA is reported to be "withdrawing its participation" with OpenStack, which the space agency co-founded with Rackspace. Will NASAs withdrawal hurt the open source cloud platform?
A film-school dropout, Michael Burns doesnt have a degree in anything, but over the course of the last 10 years hes built a multimedia empire, adapting with the internet as it shifted and changed sha...
Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) may be the concern du jour -- what with employees devices running any old app they please -- but what about the cloud creep into the workplace via that skunkworks project?
[HTML1] The memory-wiping Neuralyzer has been a staple in Barry Sonnenfelds Men in Black movies since the first one came out 15 years ago. Agents J and K, played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones (an...
Research from Dartmouth suggests being active improves learning and memory and could alleviate the symptoms of ADHD in kids.
What happens when Captain Picard and crew finally cross galactic paths with Doctor Whos Eleventh Time Lord and his cosmic travelers? All-out war, thanks to a killer team-up between the Borg and the C...
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