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Post archive for ‘visualization’

I’m down for a bit of that Minority Report action

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
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oblong’s tamper system 1801011309 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Projections onto buildings are cool

The first time i saw something like this was on the closing night of Rundfunk.fm at Landesmuseum here in Zurich, where they made the walls of the museum around the entire courtyard come alive with an amazing projection mapped exactly onto the shape of the building.
Now i’ve found a post on Rogier’s blog which shows [...]

Augmenting our reality with geo-tagged data

Layar has just announced their European version of an augmented reality application. Check out the awesome demo.

This follows in the footsteps of the original augmented reality application, Sekai Camera created by Tonchidot presented at TechCrunch50.

Forget PowerPoint and try Prezi instead

Since i’m on a roll today, I may as well add this little find to the list : Prezi.com
It’s just about the coolest presentation tool i’ve ever seen, and best of all, it’s completely web based. Basically this thing makes PowerPoint look like a 1950’s projector by comparison. Have a look at some of what [...]

Leapfish - innovative search engine business model

The search technology behind google is interesting, but the profits come from their innovative ways of selling advertising. By that measure, Leapfish is just as interesting. What they’re proposing is to sell the advertising space associated with any keyword search on their site for a fixed price. The buyer owns the space for all time [...]

3 great ways to track the US elections

Here are three great ways to track the US elections in visually interesting ways:
1. Perspctv - a website that tracks the US elections by agreggating information from 14 web services and presenting it in a visually attractive format
2. Twitter Election - a twitter page that tracks the current twitter discussions about the candidates with a [...]