[vid][App] #TEDtalk Carter Emmart demos a 3D atlas #DigitalUniverseAtlas #FREE #OpenSource @[youtube|TEDtalksDirector] @[youtube|AMNHorg]

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∞ The Known Universe by AMNH.

Digital Universe Atlas or Digital Universe is a free open source software planetarium application, available under the terms of the Illinois Open Source License, and running on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X (10.5 and above), and IRIX.||

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For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. He demos this stunning tour and explains how it's being shared with facilities around the world.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. ||

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The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010. ||

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[vid] Toshiba shows off new 3D laptop and touch-based netbook #MacPad.Pro? #NEWtech #NEWworld @[youtube|Scobleizer]

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Here Toshiba shows off a new 3D laptop (very cool for playing games) and a prototype of a potential new netbook with two touch screens, one for keyboard. ||

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The iPad is highly popular around the world and is taking market share away from netbooks. That much you can see all around you.

But, how could the other manufacturers fight back?

Here Toshiba shows a new prototype they are calling the Libretto W100 that has two seven-inch touch screens that could make the netbook more interesting to potential iPad users.||

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#Apple, I'm waiting for my MacPad Pro, with full #NOlimits Mac OS 10.7!!! [;)] ||

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[vid] The Art of Analog Computing #GEEKart #MacOS #Windows #BlueScreenOfDeath @[vimeo|meltmedia]

The Art of Analog Computing from meltmedia on Vimeo.

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The premise of this short film is to represent the digital tools and interfaces we use daily in an analog way. In the analog office, your computer desktop becomes your actual desk, your inbox gets flooded with Spam cans, the server runs past you multiple times a day (and perhaps crashes every now and then), and Twitter users follow each other around the space. This concept is essentially just for fun but also reminds us just how digitally connected we all are. The video was acted and produced entirely by the Meltmedia team and filmed in the Meltmedia office. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.

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[video][ MacTable ][SLAP][+][Silicone Active Peripherals] #newCoolTECH @[youtube|l10rwthaachen]

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|| @[youtube|l10rwthaachen]
SLAP Widgets are transparent general-purpose tangible controls for multi-touch tables made from silicone and acrylic. They are low-cost and untethered, and combine the benefits of dynamic relabeling and tactile feedback. For more information, visit SLAP: Silicone Illuminated Active Peripherals ||

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Physical user interface components such as buttons, sliders, knobs, and keyboards have many advantages: thanks to their haptic nature, they are easy to operate without looking, and their shape guides the user's input gestures. However, they are often expensive, and it is hard to change their labeling on the fly. Computer interfaces have largely replaced these devices with virtual on-screen controls, such as push buttons, scrollbars, rotary knobs and soft keyboards. Virtual controls are very flexible, easily changed dynamically - but they lack the physical, haptic texture and feedback of their real-world counterparts.
Our Silicone ILluminated Active Peripherals, or SLAP widgets, are physical widgets made from silicone rubber and acrylic that combine the advantages of physical and virtual devices: Our SLAP buttons, sliders, knobs and keyboards have the physical shape of real devices to provide the right haptic feedback, but are still easily relabeled using a tabletop rear projection. At the same time, they are particularly low-cost, and easy to put to use.||

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