Lego AR in the wild

It was fitting that the last day of the holiday wandering around Disney Downtown we ended up in the Lego Innovations store. For some reason I nearly missed seeing the Augmented Reality kiosk that lets you see whats inside your lego box.

I have seen this in videos before, but it was good to have a go [...]

New nerdcore anthem- New Dorks

This is great, and props to @GemmaCocker for tweeting and blogging it
New Dork – [...]

Hmmm Upgrades. Second Life Viewer 2 appearing

A video is already up on youtube of Second Life Viewer 2

The next few days as we all get to download and use it we will see how the changes and improvements affect us all. It should be good, as its been a long time coming. Lets [...]

Performance bell curves don’t work!

Towards the end of each year and start of the next many people in “serious businesses’” seem to have to suffer the torture that is the annual performance review. Not having to deal with this ridiculous set of processes this year has not kept me away from it. I still see the unfortunate side effects that [...]

The Next Decade?

It may seem a bit of a long shot to look forward to the next 10 years but what the heck!
1. Keep Walking. Obviously the big one to consider is what used to be called mobile. Everything is mobile now. We already have relatively easy access to 3g and wi-fi to allowed our technology to be [...]

Evolver Avatar on the Iphone via Unity3d

It has been a busy week for travel and meetings this week. However in the gaps between pieces of work I have been exploring what I can do quickly and simply with the Iphone 3GS. I had been looking at the various 3d toolkits, doing model import by hand.
In the end it struck me as obvious [...]

Using the Evolver Clone. Is that me?

Yet more experiments with Evolver. I tried using the single photo upload and then adjusting the regsitration points on the face. The result is interesting I think.

It was from this delightful glasses removed picture of my goodself. See what you think.

As an avatar augmentalist rather than a realist I think I prefer the more extreme cartoon [...]

Apply to become a TED Fellow @ TED2010!

I received this via eightbar and thought is worth posting

Ever dreamed of attending a TED Conference…of being around some of the world’s greatest minds and discussing the best technology, art, architecture, music, film, science, literature, etc? Are you innovative and want to meet with other people like you from around the world? Then apply to the [...]

Painting with physics – Kinetic Sketch

AnnieOK just tweeted a link to this kinetic sketch web application. Its a Flash based application that the brushes are objects that are responding to one another and acting as physical simulations. i.e. a round brush rolls and square one will tip from its corner. In addition to simple physics like gravity there are lots of [...]