Amazing new combination of piracy by technology…
There’s a lot of consumer electronics news flooding out of CES in Las Vegas this week, but one of the more interesting technology stories we’re seeing is trickling out of Ontario, Canada, where Queen’s University researchers working with partners in the UK as well as at Intel Labs and Plastic Logic have developed a tablet computer that is both paper-thin and flexible. And while we’ve seen concept prototypes for flexible e-ink screens and the like previously, what’s most intriguing about the so-called PaperTab is the user interface.
The idea behind PaperTab isn’t to make your iPad flexible, but to rethink the way we use tablet computers—and to make them more like the actual pieces of paper we shuffle around our desks. Designed to work in clusters of up to ten tablets, the user can control various screens at once, with one or more PaperTabs for each app in use. So you can have several documents or apps running at once and work across several PaperTabs to execute tasks while moving things around between them. You can use several together to make a larger PaperTab display, or shuffle them around like you would actual paper documents. Touch two PaperTabs together and you can swap data between them.
What if large groups of people could go beyond ridesharing – replacing traditional car ownership altogether through on-demand access to the cars they want: a convertible in the summer, an SUV for winter ski trips?
What if driving skills could be computed as a score that warned us of bad drivers nearby – real time, on the road – also enabling navigation systems to offer safer alternative routes? Imagine if we could get rid of traffic jams and accidents altogether. Or how about if our cars picked up our groceries on their own – and dropped us off at the airport like a self-contained limo service?
What if automakers could subsidize our car purchases by working with telecommunications and other companies that want to capitalize on the lifetime revenue opportunity of a connected driver? Consider also the possibilities for insurance providers to charge higher premiums (for those who drive their cars themselves), or for local governments to monitor personal CO2 usage (in exchange for not taxing or tolling public roads).
Whether you embrace or object to these scenarios, they’re not too far away. This isn’t just an evolution of technology-enabled, connected vehicles. This goes beyond self-driving cars. And it’s more than a simple sensor-network: This is the era of smart mobility — an Internet of Cars.
(Source: Wired)
Here’s an awesome bit of high tech urban mischief. Greg Petchkovsky uses 3D photoscan software and a 3D printer to create objects that blend seamlessly into their surroundings. A solid brick appears to be melting, the corner of a sandstone block has worn away to reveal that it’s made of LEGO bricks. Made for the “Make it real” challenge on Instructables, the pieces are wonderfully convincing.
Watch this short video, entitled Mixing Digital Sculpture with Real Objects, to see how Greg creates these subtle works of playful street art.
[via Wired]
All the cool.
Cuando el móvil para muchos usuarios es el ordenador lo lógico es que el ordenador sea cada vez más el móvil.
Ubuntu ha cambiado la forma de acercarse al PC y ahora lo va a intentar con el móvil. Así empezó Apple en un campo que ya estaba dominado por grandes fabricantes. La duda ahora es saber si Ubuntu podrá hacerse un hueco en un sector tan competitivo y polarizado. En la feria CES a punto de comenzar vamos a poder ver podemos esperar en los próximos meses en este campo.
(vía Ubuntu for phones)
(via jagelado)
Happy New Years! TIME presents a look back on last year through 366 photos — one for each day. See them here.
(via culebreando)
The BBC is sharing some of the sound effects they used on the radio in the 1960 as part of a broader Web audio project they’ve been working on. In the collection called Recreating the sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop using the Web Audio API, they offer explanations of the effects and the technical information associated with the API (which you don’t need to understand), and most importantly they offer that you “have a play” with the virtual devices. The Wobbulator is calling to you.
(via thisistheverge)
A little bit of history.
Exciting news about The Pirate Bay — Away From Keyboard, the full-length documentary about the controversial Swedish file-sharing site.
Creator Simon Klose has finished the film and just announced a historic partnership with six national broadcasters in Europe. These six media organizations, including the BBC and Sweden’s SVT, have agreed to use Creative Commons to license Klose’s film — a first for these major national networks. The agreement ensures that audiences will be freely able to share the film, even as it receives formal distribution.
Firewall creates and manipulates music and visuals when people push into a stretched piece of spandex. Created by Aaron Sherwood and Mike Allison.
