http://sens8shun.com Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:53:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems like once a month or so I come across a video of some guy in his living room doing some proof of concept with a Wii remote that advances interface technology into the realm of science fiction. Multipoint finger tracking like Minority Report, a multitouch digital whiteboard ... http://sens8shun.com/wii-are-not-as-smart-as-you.htm Via email from Tunc: I must have seen every photograph of the Trinity era experiments and their offspring in the following decades. Except for a few famous photos and films, like this sobering clip of the 50 mt Soviet Tsar Bomba test: it was nearly all American footage. What's different ... http://sens8shun.com/armes-nucleaires.htm Michael Mukasey, the man who will step into to fill the enormous legal shoes left behind by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, heads up to the Hill this week for what is shaping up to be a hand job of a confirmation hearing. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Chairman of the ... http://sens8shun.com/confirmation-hearings.htm 1967 had a pretty good read on 1999. Which naturally leads one to think about what 2039 might have to offer the home of the future (hopefully an ice maker). If the unending cycle of retro-to-cool rebirth continues unabated, it's a fairly good bet that 32 years from now, 20 ... http://sens8shun.com/back-to-the-future.htm I'm involved in the advertising and marketing industries, so I pay attention to the ways that companies market their products. Figuring out the formula for successfully doing so on the internet is where a lot of the action is right now. Google hit it big with the text based ... http://sens8shun.com/selling-underpants-on-the-internet.htm Commenting on my post about Microsoft's botched marketing initiative for Surface, my friend Angel checks in from Florida and directs me to this post suggesting that multi-touch will be Steve Jobs' "one more thing" when he does the official introduction of Leopard. The comments of that post are where the real ... http://sens8shun.com/the-multi-touch-gimmick.htm So the computing division of Microsoft finally comes up with a product that has the potential to reposition the brand as a market leader instead of just the leading developer of bloatware, but the marketing department designs, approves and releases creative that resembles stock video clips for a prescription drug ... http://sens8shun.com/microsoft-putting-the-un-back-in-cool.htm The art of folding paper into beautifully intricate shapes is intrinsically tied to Japanese culture in my mind. Hear the word origami, and immediately think of the quintessential crane - you know the one, no need to provide a picture :-) Richard Sweeney out of the UK is pushing and pulling ... http://sens8shun.com/the-queens-oragami.htm I used to be a 3D modeller. I worked in Alias Studio on an SGI back when the idea of layers in Photoshop was unthinkable. The idea that we would all soon be able to use our laptops to run high end animation software to make our own movies was ... http://sens8shun.com/all-hail-analog-read-balls-to-cgi.htm If you are going to be at Coachella next weekend - be sure to stop by and visit the latest Global Inheritance initiative :: The Energy Factory. We worked with a group of architects lead by Juan Azulay in designing and developing the structure and exhibits - which all showcase ... http://sens8shun.com/coachella.htm