voice wreckognition
August 2nd, 2006I couldn’t resist in reblogging this. Not really out of schadenfreude but more because I like it if techology gets so human :-)
the uncanny valley
August 1st, 2006
a) visible light video image, b) unvisible light fluorescent image, c) recontructed image according to the New York Times
Yesterday the New York Times as well as the Wall Street Journal published an article about a new motion capture device called “Contour” which was apparently shown at siggraph yesterday and which was developped by former Apple Computer engineer Steve Perlman.
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NMI 2006 – the conference
July 31st, 2006
From July 19 to 21 the annual conference “New Media and Technologies of the IT Society” (“Neue Medien und Technologien der Informationsgesellschaft”) took place under the title “Film, Computer and TV”. Read the rest of this entry »
ORWOhaus
July 29th, 2006
Yesterday the ORWOhaus celebrated its first “Klang der Ideen”-music festival. Read the rest of this entry »
determined blogs
July 27th, 2006this blog is determined to be continued after solving some minor
organisatorial problems.
organisatorial problems.
www.noentropy.net . There is no better choice.
Axiom of choice vs multiple choice
July 19th, 2006
The axiom of choice is a mathematical axiom that states that from every set of non empty sets one can choose a representative from every single one of them. Read the rest of this entry »
Simon funkelt
July 17th, 2006
This is sort of a follow up post to the post about the interview with Ralph Baer (soon to be put on the net by Andreas Lange) and a hanger for hiding that this post is a real gadget post:-). Read the rest of this entry »
tokyoblog
July 16th, 2006
The german artist Dirk Schwieger spent some time in Tokyo and has posted a regular comic blog called tokyoblog on this experience, which is funny and interesting. He had lived also one year in Iceland and did some research on elves. The rumours are that he is about to move to Siberia. So we are of course now anxious to read a Siberiablog and to get interviews with bears, or mathematicians in Novosibirsk.
make science with star wars
July 15th, 2006
There is currently an exhibition about star wars at the Cité de la Science in Paris (until Aug. 27 2006). There is also a book of Roland Lehoucq (unfortuanately seems to exist only in french) coming with the exhibition, where he tries to find possible physical realizations for phenomena in star wars. In particular he suggests to use a plasma for making a nearly-star-wars-laser-sword. The book is easy to read and lively written. It is very nice popular science without a didactical forefinger.
Merci beaucoup to Laurent for the book.