This is a new magazine about augmented reality, with a focus on creative applications in merging the real and virtual world. It is an excellent resource for augmented reality designers and engineers.
Open publication – Free publishing – More arlab
Amazing and beautiful GPS visualization of pizza delivery in Manhattan.
GPS-tracing the delivery routes of pizza in the heart of NYC – data visualization meets pizza delivery in this teaser for PBS-UK’s America Revealed (DVD)
Brilliant water color version of the opening scenes of Blade Runner movie. This is so cool!
Blade Runner Aquarelle Edition, Part 1 (Teaser) (by andersramsell)
BEFORE THE INTERNET I remember life was like this.
Cartoon of the day. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/NGzwA9
An excellent early example of human-animal cybernetic systems.
This experimental device was developed during World War II by behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, who experimented with harnessing pigeons’ pecking movements to steer missiles. Skinner divided this nose cone into three compartments, and proposed strapping a pigeon in each one. As a bomb headed towards earth, each pigeon would see the target on its screen. By pecking at the image, the birds would activate a guidance system that would keep the bomb on the right path until impact. Skinner’s idea received initial support, but the U.S. military finally dismissed it as impractical.
BRILLIANT ADVICE FOR A CREATIVE LIFE
01. Keep good company
02. Notice the ordinary
03. Preserve the ephemeral
04. Design not for the elite but for the masses
05. Explain it to a child
06. Get lost in the content
07. Get to the heart of the matter
08. Never tolerate “O.K. anything.”
09. Remember your responsibility as a storyteller
10. Zoom out
11. Switch
12. Prototype it
13. Pun
14. Make design your life… and life, your design.
15. Leave something behind.
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On June 26th I will be giving a talk at the GIL event on Growth, Innovation and Leadership which is organized by Frost & Sullivan for leaders in industry. I hope to see you there.
Frost & Sullivan’s global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership is focused on engaging, sharing, and inspiring a continuous flow of new ideas and fresh perspectives leveraging innovation as a resource to address global challenges.
Year after year our CEOs and members of their growth team, invest the time to experience a GIL event, renewing their passion, fueling their creativity and gaining inspiration through interactive networking, bench marking of proven growth strategies, sharing of best practices by industry and career, exposure to best-in-class growth solution providers and access to some very insightful “BIG Picture” 360 Degree Visionary Perspectives.
Meeting with James Kondo, Twitter Japan, and Keio Media Design students about our new Food media project.
Hot Topics by Hiroshi Ishiguro Director Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. At the Seoul Digital Forum I asked Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, the robots guru of Japan to describe what are his thoughts on hot topics the students at Keio University should think about. I showed this in a class at Keio, and you can view his thoughts also here.
This week I was a visiting professor at Shanghai East China University of Science and Technology. I was invited by Professor Gaoqi He who was an incredible warm and friendly host. I had two classes in the school on the topic of multi sensory mixed reality and on the final day a public talk where people came from other universities. For the class, it was mainly undergraduate with some graduate students. I particularly enjoyed to discuss with the students when they asked questions. There were a couple of students who were from Africa (but who spoke Chinese and English!) who asked very deep questions. Such as what are the long term effects of internet hugging. I spent some time in the lab ans it was great to see some students who seemed shy come up to me with great ideas and questions. There was one student Jingyuan Chen who I had a very interesting and impressing talk with in the lab. He came to talk to me and he wanted to ask about possible ways to make interactive origami. We talked about robots doing origami. But then he said something profound. He said for origami the *process* is important. I totally agree and I think this applies to all of life. Having a robot or outsourcing tasks can actually decrease happiness because humans find pleasure in “flow” in being involved in the process. I noticed this student really makes origami and had a whole collection on his desk. I was impressed he is putting his passions and hobbies into action and making real things. This is the best way to have creativity. To have passion from your heart.
