links for 2010-09-01

by Ryan Lane on September 1, 2010

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links for 2010-08-31

by Ryan Lane on August 31, 2010

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Madgets: Actuating Widgets on Interactive Tabletops

by Ryan Lane on August 2, 2010

There are some crazy ideas here. I really like the fiber optic pass through for object detection. I still think RFID would be a better solution since you have to uniquely identify each element and teach your program to know that object. Although the gradient tags give you orientation.

Madgets are transparent tangible controls for multi-touch tables. Our system combines electromagnetic actuation with fiber optical tracking.

For more information: Visit hci.rwth-aachen.de/madgets

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links for 2010-07-22

by Ryan Lane on July 22, 2010

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links for 2010-05-08

May 8, 2010

How can I create ePub files from my books? | Lexcycle (tags: books convert converter howto resources epub)

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Twitter’s BlackBird Pie

May 4, 2010

Now you can embed tweets. Because copying 140 characters of text and citing it would be hard. .bbpBox{background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/75736281/DSC_0012.jpg) #18284e;padding:20px;}p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px}p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6}p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px}p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px}p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} I’m testing out this new Blackbird Pie service on Twitter http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/less than a minute ago via webRyan [...]

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links for 2010-04-24

April 24, 2010

WOFF File Format I plan on reading through this spec later, so I'm bookmarking it for now (tags: Fonts new reference standards typography woff format)

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iPad vs. Kindle lighting test

April 14, 2010

I wanted to see how well the iPad worked in comparison to the Kindle in different lighting situations. To be somewhat fair I tested the Kindle app on the iPad to the Kindle 2 device. You can see the results of my very unscientific test below. The first test is a side by side in [...]

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David Kelley Demos the Touch Tag

April 1, 2010

See David Kelley of Wirestone demonstrate his prototype for building immersive retail experiences. As a customer approaches a product, the price tag, display and even the placement wall can all come alive with this integrated application. This was built using the Arduino Ping prototype mentioned in my previous post WPF Sonar application using Arduino and [...]

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David J Kelley on Windows 7 Touch and Wirestone

March 22, 2010

David J Kelley on Windows 7 Touch and Wirestone from Interact on Vimeo. Our own David Kelley talking on camera at the MVP summit about Windows 7 touch technologies, touch tags and their projects in the retail space

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