July 11, 2012
By: Michael Faber
T(ether) is a spacially-aware visualization and 3d-manipulation system designed by the Tangible Media Group at MIT's Media Lab. A bit difficult to explain in text, so check the video: http://vimeo.com/user11720996/tether What I think would be really cool to add to...
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July 3, 2012
By: Scott Wells
Look like the future to you? You may have seen a version of this technology in a YouTube video. I'm thinking this deserves a second look. Pretty cool pointing, think "Minority Report." The Most Important New Technology Since the Smart...
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By: Scott Wells
Here's your potential game changer! Imagine spray painting the side of your house and it not only produces power from the sun, but can store the energy for later as well. A novel approach to battery design from Rice University...
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February 16, 2012
By: Michael Faber
Lots of news out there today in the tech world about the out-of-nowhere announcement from Apple that Mountain Lion is coming this summer. After we all collectively sighed and chuckled and realized, damn, we should have seen that coming, we...
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February 14, 2012
By: Michael Faber
Although Duke has sympa for maintaining listservs, sometimes it doesn't quite have all the features you'd want for a more traditional one-way email newsletter-type service. I've used Mailchimp extensively (outside of my Duke life), and it's a really simple, well-designed...
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November 18, 2011
By: Michael Faber
Some people think that this is a vision of the future of interface design: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0&hd=1 Others don't. http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/ Personally, I have always thought that these videos of the future are pretty short-sighted and I tend to side with Bret's thinking...
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