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Kinecting the dots!
In the light of the recent release (and in some places upcoming) of the Xbox 360 Kinect, I thought it would be interesting see just how far consoles and controllers have progressed in the last four decades. I’ve posted some … Continue reading
Posted in Consoles, Video Games
Tagged Game, Gesture, Joy Pad, Joystick, Kinect, Movement, Playstation 3 Move, Remote Control, Sensors, Video Game, Xbox 360
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A Tale of Two Books: Print Vs Digital
Imagine the scene, it’s Christmas, little Billy rushes downstairs and throws himself on the presents under the tree. He reaches out and snatches up what he thinks is the new Larry Botter book and rips off the paper in a frenzy … but what’s this! It’s a *bleep* eReader, not Larry Botter and the Snark of Wisdom! All hell breaks loose, he wanted the limited edition by May. K. Howling, now how’s that supposed to happen with an eReader! Continue reading
Wikipedia, we have a Google refresh problem!
What did the web crawler say to Wikipedia? I’ll update you later!
So the question is … just how much later?! I’m wondering because there seems to be a discrepancy between just how fast Wikipedia bots/editors seem to shoot down vandals and how fast Google actually refreshes information to reflect this correction in the search engine. Continue reading
Incredible Mixed Reality Spectacle in Prague
Prepare to have your socks officially blown off. I just stumbled across the following project and was absolutely astounded at the beauty and brilliance of the this piece of mixed reality artwork. The Macula have used a technique called video mapping … Continue reading
Posted in Mixed Reality
Tagged Architecture, Blending, Cutting Edge, Mixed Reality, Video Mapping
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What’s got the Greater Manchester Police all aTwitter today?
Discard your police scanner, since 5am this morning and for 24 hours only, the Greater Manchester Police have been logging every incident live on Twitter. What’s got them all atwitter? According to their website they want to raise the public’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Twitter
Tagged Blogging, Facebook, Police, Social Media, Social Network, Twitter
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Who’s Following the Tweetless Tweeter?
Just another case of the blind following the blind? This week I bit the bullet and added Twitter to my list of social media apps. I didn’t want to do it …I hate the idea of Twitter, but I had … Continue reading
The Inkscape Trial
As part of my New Media class I’ve been asked to had a bash at using Inkscape to create some digital artwork. I’ve always used Adobe packages so it was hard to get my head around using Inkscape at first. … Continue reading
Ah Dr. Blofeld, I’ve been expecting you!
Well not quite you … When I wrote my article in Wikipedia about Suzhou Creek Art District in Shanghai, I really hadn’t expected to encounter Dr. Blofeld coming out of hiding from his Himalayan retreat to edit my category listing! … Continue reading