From his Address at the Stanford University 114th Commencement on 12 June 2005, Steve Jobs CEO and original co-founder of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios urges us to pursue our dreams and to see the opportunites in life’s setbacks.
There is a transcript of the address available from Stanford University at:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
PhoneGap is an open source development framework for creating mobile applications using HTML and JavaScript.
As simple as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Software development is hard work. Device integration should be simple so you can focus on the application you are building instead of authoring complex compatibility layers. PhoneGap aims to solve device integration by web enabling devices native functionality with open standards.
It enables you to build mobile applications for a number of devices while still taking advantage of the core features available in the iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs.
There is a “Wiki” of information available at:
PhoneGap can be downloaded from
http://www.phonegap.com/download
where you can also obtain a device simulator application.
Oblong Industries (http://oblong.com/) is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment (SOE) .
The SOE’s combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak platform is a complete application development and execution environment that redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional GUIs. Its idiom of spatial immediacy and information responsive to real-world geometry enables a necessary new kind of work: data-intensive, embodied, real-time, predicated on universal human expertise.
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
A talk by Blaise Aguera y Arcas at the recent TED 2010 showed some new augmented reality mapping technology from Microsoft.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.
Talks from the TED Archives
2009 – David Hanson: Robots that “show emotion”
Here’s a blog worth following if you want to watch what may be on the horizon from Apple …
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/
The most recent articles include:
New Media Player Armband Revealed for Attachable Accessories
Will Liquid Cooling be Coming to the iMac?
Apple Design Wins: Animation GUI for iPhone & LED Cinema Display
With the recent burst of enthusiasm for the iPad it suddenly occurred to me that I’d seen it all before.
Just seems remarkably similar to the PADD – Personal Access Display Device that I’d seen in the mid 1990′s (or more accurately that hails from the year 2374) as seen on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/PADD
Different versions of the PADD were available depending on your species, Klingon and Cardassian, for example, often being more angular than the Federation ones, and consisted of a large touchscreen area for entering or reading data.
How long will it be before we see the Apple iTransporter and iReplicator ?
Science Fact or Fiction
Replicator ?
check out the Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication, or EBF3150, from NASA
… creates parts for airplanes — not food and drink — and uses an environmentally-friendly construction process to manufacture layered metal objects. This technique could revolutionize the aviation industry and may have applications for the future spacecraft and the medical community as well. It can be used to make small, detailed parts or large structural pieces of airplanes.
check out the video from the NASA link at
http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/electron_beam.htm#
Transporter ?
As it happens, I noted an (old) article in the UK Newspaper – The Independent – which describes potentially the first breakthrough using the revolutionary technology of Quantum Teleportation.
Just wave your hand to access music, web, your family and friends on the Gesture Cube.
The Gesture Cube uses 3D spacial movement tracking using underlying GestIC® technology to detect the approach and movement of your hand.
GestIC® electric field sensing technology makes 3D spatial hand or finger movement tracking possible. GestIC® detects movements and distances in 3D space and provides the technical backbone for Gesture Cube’s 3D user interface.
Gesture Cube is a joint development by three partnering companies: IDENT Technology AG delivered the underlying touch-free GestIC® technology used in Gesture Cube. User interface studio ZINOSIGN® designed Gesture Cube’s user interface and website. Design company LUNAR Europe created the overall product design.
Find out all the details at:
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