Metro inspired, Kinect driven visual communication system!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/A-Metro-inspired-Kinect-driven-visual-communication-system-Teudu

“Today’s project is a Metro inspired (with live tiles even) NUI information display and browsing project.Teudu: A Kinect Driven Visual Communication System

An attempt to leverage the Kinect in NUI for an interactive, metro-styled info-display with live-tiles (ala Windows Phone).

It was originally a Carnegie Mellon University Information Systems Capstone project, and has since evolved into a public contribution. We hope the world will build new and exciting info-displays on top of this platform.

Project Information URL: http://teudu.codeplex.com/ & http://www.vivekrpai.com/Projects/Teudu

Project Source URL: http://teudu.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets

Note: If you’re looking at the source, the Solution/Project you’ll want to use is the \Teudu.InfoDisplay\Teudu.InfoDisplay.sln

Contact Information:Blog: http://www.vivekrpai.com/

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“Design is Science” Bill Buxton

http://openwebcast.nl/?p=1165

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Bill Buxton Wearable Computing

http://m.youtube.com/?reload=3&rdm=m5u9ca5ql#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3De0Jqs9IcTJY%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&feature=youtu.be&v=e0Jqs9IcTJY&gl=GB

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: NICT’s Daedalus creates beautiful 3D visuals to map out nasty cyber attacks (video)

: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/19/nicts-daedalus-creates-beautiful-3d-visuals-cyber-attack-video/

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GalaSoft Laurent Bugnion

http://www.galasoft.ch/

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The Tablet Show

http://s3.amazonaws.com/thetabletshow/thetabletshow_0037_bugnion.mp3

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Sensordrone Lets You Run …

Sensordrone Lets You Run Hundreds of Previously Impossible Sensor Apps

Sensordrone can fit on your keychain, monitor your environment, and talk with your smartphone via Bluetooth. Sensordrone already includes more sensors than anything else available, so you can run hundreds of new apps. Apps that are surprisingly useful in your daily life, fun apps, scientific apps, and more

Sensordrone: The 6th Sense of Your Smartphone…& Beyond! by Sensorcon — Kickstarter

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TAAP Releases Windows Phone Applications Powered By Windows Azure!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/p0IEcsg2CNE/

“Press Release: TAAP, the mobile application specialist, has released new mobile applications for Windows Phone 7, which allow data to be transferred to and from mobile devices and secure cloud-based Microsoft Azure servers.

The software applications are designed for any Windows Phone 7 handset, which are typically low cost and high function, and combined with cloud-server technology they reduce the need for organisations to make large capital outlays for storage technology or enterprise-orientated devices.

The new crop of mobile software applications from TAAP include: face to face fundraising, property maintenance/inventory, vehicle inspections, and vehicle deliveries. These enable users to collect, transfer, and store rich data such as free text, pre-defined drop-down options, photographs, annotation, diagrams, and electronic signatures.

TAAP’s clients benefit from having access to new applications which have been upgraded from the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 operating system, and will be able to use new ‘iPhone style’ interfaces on a range of devices from hardware manufacturers such as Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Motorola and so on.

Windows Phone 7 offers a stable platform for applications to run on, which is crucial if organisations are using it as part of a system to manage business-critical operational tasks, such as field service visits, deliveries, capturing data etc.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud-based server solution designed so that organisations can store and access their data via the web. TAAP’s applications link seamlessly with Azure to provide comprehensive systems covering front line mobile operations through to back-office storage. TAAP provides secure customised web portals which allow organisations to view and use their data which is accessed from secure servers.

Steve Higgon, Product Architect explained “The combination of Windows Phone 7 devices loaded with TAAP’s mobile software applications, and the Microsoft Azure server capability, means we can offer clients a relatively inexpensive way to mobilise their workforce. Clients have the management information that they require to run their operations efficiently, available in real-time, and they can achieve this with minimal outlay compared to the purchase of often expensive hardware purchases.”

About TAAP

TAAP is a leading provider of software solutions which allow organisations to mobilise their operations using hand held computers. Its award-winning agile application platform allows new systems to be delivered “OnTAAP”, that is, fast, flexibly and at low cost.”

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Remember Qwiki? It Will Now Appear on Millions of Bing Search Results!

http://www.qwiki.com/

http://allthingsd.com/20120612/remember-qwiki-it-will-now-appear-on-millions-of-bing-search-results/

“Qwiki, the start-up that turns reference materials into interactive videos, has scored a deal to be featured in Bing search results.

You’ll be forgiven if you forgot about Qwiki — after launching as a somewhat hard-to-categorize start-up more than a year ago, the company had gone quiet. This Bing deal has been in the works for more than a year, said Qwiki CEO Doug Imbruce, and it just took a long while to come to fruition.

The Bing partnership is similar to the Qwiki you may remember: Listen to Wikipedia entries read out loud while you look at related pictures and videos and clickable maps. Playable Qwikis will show up below millions of Wikipedia entries in Bing search results. Eventually, they may appear more broadly. For now, they are English-only and will play on some mobile devices.

Qwiki is also branching out in a couple more directions, with its interactive story-creation tools as the common element. First, it just announced a deal with ABC News to feature Qwikis created by the news team within stories. And second, it is giving everyone access to its Web-based Qwiki creation tool, encouraging them to create how-to guides and other content.

On the Web, the original Qwiki is now shelved away at a separate page, qwiki.com/reference.

Qwiki has raised $10.5 million, mostly from individuals like Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin; last year, it relocated to New York from San Francisco.”

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Open Knowledge

http://okfn.org/

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