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Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Advertising: Virtual Honda Motorcycle Testdrive
An interactive game that uses the motion-based hardware data-protection system of Apple notebooks to steer a virtual motorcycle around a course.
The application was designed by Raul Arantes and is available for download as a screensaver or standalone application.
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C-Jump: A board game for geeks?
A board game made specifically for computer geeks? Aimed at kids 11+ c-jump - as the game is called - tries to familiarize the players with fundamentals of computer programming languages like C, C++ and Java. Players move around the board by calculating the number of steps in programming syntax. Yeah, sure - and “…Skiing and snowboarding is a perfect programming analogy…”
Guys get real - our suggestion…
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Turn your web site into a graph
This great applet will turn your web site into a graph. You just need to enter an URL and the screens shows how the graph is dynamically build step by step.
The tool was created with…
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Microsoft Health Future Vision
A video providing some insights into Microsoft’s vision on the future of health care. The video has recently been used by Bill Gates on conferences and is also shown to visitors of the “MS Executive Briefing Center”.
Outstanding pictures like always from that shop and some rather good ideas. But there’s still a long way to go - particular with the IS/IT features.
More information at the…
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From our does it blend department : Is Digg.com going down tonight?
We were impressed how well their web site scaled to the ever increasing user numbers. And they’ve been adding features over features. But tonight it seems for the first time the site is going down on its knees.
While the servers still reply immediately to any ping or traceroute packets, the wait for pages has now…
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Data-Visualization: The world according to newspapers
We always knew that the press and journalists are selective with what story makes it to the cover pages or even receives a few paragraphs to be mentioned. But nobody has visualized this so far and shown how unbalanced some newspapers are regarding world news.
The two heatmaps below show news coverage by geographical region from the Daily Mail and The Economist during 2007. They are part of a series of heatmaps created within a project by French journalists Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Gilles Bruno. The two are planning to…
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Design: Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites
The subjects of Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites range from clouds to blood, from hands to farts, from hills to dollars, from doors to fire. They are interactive, some are like pieces of pop art, others a bit absurd.
His latest creation “colorflip.com” got quite some popularity on various forums the last days and…
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Leo Burnett: Future trends in advertising
A typographic video about the latest advertising trends predictions report from Leo Burnett / Arc.
The report was created by Ben Hourahine, Futures Editor at Leo Burnett (London). The predictions in the video include…
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Top 5 Tech Easter Eggs
Hidden little or not so little techfeatures in applications, videos or games aka Tech Easter Eggs are in season this week. So here’s a “link” to CNet’s Top 5 of tech Easter eggs…
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Environment: Greenpeace guide to greener electronics
Environment campaigning organization Greenpeace has yesterday published the 7th issue of its “Guide to greener electronics” that ranks the top 18 manufactures of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and game consoles based on their policies how to handle toxic chemicals and recycling of their goods.
In the latest version Samsung and Toshiba are leading the group with 7.7 out of 10 possible points for their policies on toxic chemicals use, e-waste amd recycling. While Toshiba took the crown this time for…
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