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Tracking fingers with the Wii remote

Posted 12 November 2007 § multitouch ‡ Comments Off

Raccourci rapide

Le Centre de Vulgarisation de la Connaissance de l’Université Paris-Sud a réalisé pour l’INRIA un abécédaire de l’informatique pour expliquer en quelques mots au grand public ses domaines de recherche. Le thème choisi pour la lettre U est “Utilisateur”. Mais le texte offre une vision assez réductrice des recherches actuelles : U comme Utilisateur : [...]

Posted 06 September 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

User interface issues with augmented paper

There’s also a french version for those of us who happen to teach that kind of things…

Posted 05 September 2007 § augmented paper § fun ihm ‡ Comments Off

Tired of the ugly OS X VPNClient?

Try Shimo! From the Web site: “The initial reason for the development of Shimo was the lousy software implementation of the Cisco VPNClient for MacOS. Shimo wants to do it the MacOS way: That means to reduce the interface to the important features and integrate it right into the user interface of the OS.” I [...]

Posted 08 August 2007 § apple § INRIA § VPN ‡ Comments Off

MERL closing?

According to Xconomy, Mitsubishi Electric is closing its Cambridge labs.

Posted 01 August 2007 § tabletop ‡ Comments Off

Flat stuff

We make money not art has a story about Finn Magee‘s work at the RCA, which includes a flat light (a poster showing a picture of a lamp that actually works as a lamp) and a flat clock. This is great. It also reminds me of one of Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs characters who decides to [...]

Posted 01 August 2007 § art ‡ Comments Off

Publish once, read many: TubeMogul

TubeMogul allows you to publish a video on multiple sharing sites at the same time (e.g. Google Video, Yahoo!, YouTube) and later get aggregated access data. Has anyone tried this thing? Is anyone willing to try it?

Posted 01 August 2007 § data analysis § video ‡ Comments Off

The grass is greener on the other side (of the Atlantic)

Last Monday, the Liberation Web site talked about Chris Harrison‘s work on Information Visualization, including two projects related to Wikipedia. How come these people always talk about what’s happening there, and not here? The poor quality of this Web site might explain why…

Posted 01 August 2007 § infovis ‡ Comments Off

Belkin N1 Vision

The N1 Vision wireless router has an embedded screen that displays the network’s speed, bandwidth usage and the status of the connected devices. The NetMeter finally comes to us…

Posted 30 July 2007 § communication appliance ‡ Comments Off

zZz is playing: Grip

Grip: a one take music video with professional trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects.

Posted 27 July 2007 § fun ihm ‡ Comments (0)