The Idea Guy Blogeth... » technology http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog An Idealabs Interactive weblog Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:46:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Nokia – Extinct Dinosaur? http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/nokia-extinct-dinosaur/ http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/nokia-extinct-dinosaur/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:25:00 +0000 Idea Guy http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/?p=686 It remains to be seen how good the Nokia Lumia 800 really is, but the advertisement is cool…

If you dig the background tune, here’s the original – Garden by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – strange that Nokia would choose a tune by a group that has the words extinct and dinosaur in their name!

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And if you never saw the Pomegranate phone video:

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Using this technology, the Engineering Human-Computer Interaction Research Group at the University Joseph Fourier developed a cool, free iOS app – i3D!

This video is not in English, but will give you the general idea:

Here’s a more in-depth video:

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You have to see this, to believe it…

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For more information, click here!

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Here are the videos…

The tests

The actual launch process

Space…

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Holographic 3D interfaces!

Minority Report, anyone?

The Motorola XOOM tablet, running Google Android Honeycomb

The official preview video for Google Android Honeycomb

Robo Teddy Bear

Isn’t he the cutest? :P

Eye control

Playing games with 3 humongous pads stuck to your face? Really?

Sleep monitoring head-band

Next time you doze off at work, the boss will know what you’ve been dreaming about! :P

Sony’s head-mounted 3D display

Head-mounted displays have been around since the 80′s, and they’ve never really picked up. Get. The. Hint.

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Shadow puppet

Laser tracking

3D reconstruction

Light saber

Mario

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Note that this video requires you to have a pair of red/blue 3D glasses.

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