Stantum’s TouchPark demo (includes video) shows a standard resistive touchscreen handling multitouch, pressure sensitivity and much more. Now THIS is a technology I’m looking forward to!
Oxford’s 10,000 definition limit ‘Junior’ dictionary seems more obsolete than the 150+ words they excised from the latest edition to make room for “broadband” and “celebrity. Forget using paper. Teach the kids to google (which should be a verb in the latest edition).
Neal Stephenson talks about the Long Now foundation, concepts in Anathem, his writing process and a whole lot more. If you’re a fan of Neal’s this is well worth checking out.More at http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=229
The Wall Street Journal has raised the spectre of smartphones replacing laptops, not even realising, it seems, that it is a spectre. Apple’s “cutting-edge” iPhone is held up throughout the article, without a hint of irony, as the prime example of the sort of device that the author sees one day bumping your main mobile computer into a Sarlacc Pit.
Earlier this year the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) sent a Cease And Desist letter to popular torrent seach site isohunt, demanding that the site be taken down for copyright violation. But rather than cave, ISOhunt is taking the ballzy move…and suing the CRIA right back.
G-G is the hilarious experiment: What happens when you take Garfield out of Garfield strips? Well it turns out you get a much, much funnier strip about a man dealing with crippling loneliness and psychosis while living in the ‘burbs. And now, it’s gonna be a book. Awesome.
The potential ‘DMCA of Canada’ has been put on life support as the federal government has called an election. Of course, if the ruling party pulls of a majority, it could be back in full force this winter.
Cool project from the University of Washington that enhances low res video by tracking with high res stills, as well as making use of HDRI and object replacement/removal. The source code, but no application, is available online.
Stev Jobs is not dead, despite what the Bloomberg Newswire says. We have a copy of the obituary here; read it before they force us to take it down forever.
They’ve all expressed interest in directing segments for the third installment of the cult classic, in this talk with Kevin Eastman, who also says that HM2 sucked ‘very badly’. David Fincher is executive producer of the as yet untitled new anthology movie, and may direct one segment.