In|Situ| blog

The popularity of numbers

Pierre — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:54:34 +0000

An applet that lets you explore the popularity of numbers from 0-100000 on the Web. Makes heavy use of cool animated transitions.

Truly creative 3D sketching

Pierre — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:09:01 +0000

This is an old and simple tool but it’s amazing to see a trained artist using it. This is the very first convincing example of a “creative” 3D sketching tool I see. Also watch the various drawings at the end of the video.

Wat is wetenschap? (What is Science?)

AurÃ©lien Tabard — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:28:22 +0000

Dutch video (mainly in English) on science with B. Latour

More audio and videos: http://www.anthem-group.net/bruno-latour-audio-video/

On writing and creativity

AurÃ©lien Tabard — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:05:59 +0000

For those who are writing at the moment…

A nice presentation of Elizabeth Gilbert at TED 2008 on writing and creativity

and a few words by cory doctorow on his writing methods: writing in the age of distraction

Jean Baptiste Labrune presentation

AurÃ©lien Tabard — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:21:18 +0000

JB Labrune came back for a short visit yesterday.

Jb is a former Phd student at InSitu and currently postdoctoral associate at the Media Lab.

In a talk called Beyond Tangible Interfaces, he presented us with the recent work done at the media lab, particularly in the tangible group. He also put all of these innovations back in their context and in the global environment where they came from.

Here are some of the projects he presented:

TrackMate et LusidOSC, MultiTouch Tracking and Tangible Interfaces for less than 100 dollars:

http://lusidosc.sourceforge.net/

http://trackmate.sourceforge.net/

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SixthSense Mobile Wearable Reality

http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

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G-Speak Gestural Interfaces

http://oblong.com/

Objectified

OB — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:22:41 +0000

touch and telephone

AurÃ©lien Tabard — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:25:31 +0000

Palm introduced the Pre during CES, it is a small multi-touch phone, with a physical keyboard. Three features make it interesting:

LG also presented a new touch phone/watch, Baudisch here you go!

Finally, Microsoft is investing more money into touch technology [fr].

Microsoft’s Songsmith

OB — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:36:19 +0000

no. comment. via gizmodo.

OLPC downsizing

The OLPC organization will be laying off half of its staff and ending its involvement in Sugar development, core of the OLPC Environment. I don’t know what this mean in regard of software developments for the version 2. From the announce:

This restructuring is also the result of an exciting new direction for OLPC. Our technology initiatives will focus on:

1. Development of Generation 2.0
2. A no-cost connectivity program
3. A million digital books
4. Passing on the development of the Sugar Operating System to the community.

via slashdot and zdnet

Une orgie d’images

letondal — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:29:15 +0000

http://www.lefresnoy.net/