Just arrived atCAIF, our workshop about Collaborative Artefacts and Interactive Furnitures. Stay tuned! ...
Augmented Reality Volcano
AR Volcano The Augmented Reality (AR) Volcano Kiosk is an exhibit that teaches people about volcanoes, including details on tectonic plates, subduction, rifts, the Ring of Fire, volcano formation and of course, eruptions. (...) The user looks through a handheld display that consists of a display vi...
Location-Aware systems evaluation
Thank you Philip for pointing me on this relevant research paper: Deploying and evaluating a location-aware system (by R. K. Harle and A. Hopper from University of Cambridge, UK), International Conference On Mobile Systems, Applications And Services,Proceedings of the 3rd international conference o...
Improbable European Space Agency Advanced Concepts Generator
Browsing the European Space Agency portal (very rich content!), I stumbled across this odd The Advanced Concepts Generator (ACG): There are and there will always be loads of crackpots ideas around. Sometimes they are confused with advanced concepts. In order to help spotting some of them and t...
Sony researchers create 'curious' Aibos
Sony researchers create 'curious' Aibos: Sony Corp. has succeeded in giving selected Aibo pet robots curiosity, researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratory (SCSL) in Paris said last week. Their research won't lead to conscious robots soon, if ever, but it could help other fields such as child d...
Tamagotchi-Tamagotchi and tamagotchi-mobile phones interactions
An interesting column in web japan about the Tamagotchi connection series: . What makes the new Tamagotchi special is communication. Tamagotchi pets can now interact with each other, making friends and even getting married. A new series of virtual pets called Tamagotchi Connection went on sale a ye...
Sigmund Freud Action Figure
In cannot believe this: Available here for $8.95. ...
A wikipedia for the physical world, based on location-based technologies
(via): some folks envisions a location-based wikipedia: Russel Buckley at the Mobile Technology Weblog proposed A Manifesto for Taking Wikipedia into the Physical World: One of the most exciting things that's going to happen in the next 10 years, in my view, is that the Wikipedia will move into the...
Computer-enhanced astrobiologist
(via ), an intriguing research project lead by Patrick McGuire Astronauts aboard some previous missions to the moon, such as Apollo 15 in 1971, were trained in geology, enabling them to identify ancient rocks that might reveal signs of water or life. The new system would do away with the need fo...
When the XML world meets neural network
Wrning, Hardcore post here: I would not bet on it but there is now a connection between XML and neural network. For people not confortable with neural network, it's an artificial intelligence technique that aim to simulate some properties of real neural networks in order to do cognitive modeling (w...