(Via): Unser Täglich Brot ("our daily bread") is an impressive film about industrial food production and high-tech farming: Ein Blick in die Welt der industriellen Nahrungsmittel-produktion und der High-Tech-Landwirtschaft: Zum Rhythmus von Fließbändern und riesigen Maschinen gibt der Film kommenta...
World history timeline
Look at this world history timeline (by Scientific Timeline Productions): 13.7 billion years of universal history Over 60.000 years of art, technology and religion Over 6000 years of literature, art, world religion, philosophy, science, music and political facts A horizontal and vertical linkage o...
Mining electronic footprints
A very interesting piece in Science by John Bohannon called "Tracking People's Electronic Footprints" describes how "Digital records, faster computers, and a growing tool kit of mathematical models are now giving social scientists a boost in analytical power" for social sciences: The mobile phone d...
Recommendations for game researchers
John Hopson has a very clever column in Gamasutra entitled "We're Not Listening: An Open Letter to Academic Game Researchers". It mainly deals with the gap between academic research about video games and the practitioners (who, as a matter of fact "never read this work nor attend these conferences"...
LIFT07 program
The LIFT07 program is out (empty slots are being filled progressively no worries): More explanations later about LIFT+ (surprise) and LIFTcamp (we're working on digg-like system so that people could propose talks and you could vote for them). ...
Interaction design primer
Interaction design primer Vol. 1 is a book by by Walter Aprile, Britta Boland and Stefano Mirti (former Interaction Design institute people, now at Interaction Design Lab. Soon to be released it deals with the following topic: - What is so great about design? - What is so interesting about comput...
Inflatable interactive games
This website is a well-documented resource about inflatable stuff. My attention has been drawn to inflatable interactive games because it struck me as the most interesting usage for such devices. Why do I blog this? I find this interesting to create new types of playground (maybe more temporary),...
GeoIQ: Heat map visualization platform
Fortiusone just releases the GeoIQ platform: GeoIQ is an open platform for building intuitive geographic analysis and visualization tools into web-based mapping applications. It gives people a simple and compelling way to filter, analyze and get value from geographic data without ever leaving their...
Wii glove and other craft ideas
Via zogdog, this interesting velcro glove for the wii (mmh why are there two controllers): .Why do I blog this? I know the console has been released yet but I am a bit disappointed that nobody used duct tape and wires already to do something weirder with this game controller. At least with some dra...
Memory modulates color appearance
According to this article in Nature (by Thorsten Hansen, Maria Olkkonen, Sebastian Walter & Karl R Gegenfurtner), low-level perceptual mechanisms can be affected by high-level cognitive processes. They showed how memory modulates color appearance: natural fruit objects tend to be perceived in their...