I want this to fit into my my pocket.

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Ready, set, race! Red Bull Soapbox Race is coming to San Francisco this October 18. Teams of up to 4 will race at Dolores Park while competing for Red Bull Soapbox Race fame. Admission is free. Pits open at 11am, first race at 1pm. View teams competing in San Francisco.

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Team Line-up

Buzzillions Burrito Bombers
Eat My Sawdust
Fully Operational
Hamster Hybrids
Homerun Heroes
Honor Roller
KISS Army Personnel Carrier
Master Blasters
Retro Rocket Racers
Rubik’s Projects
SF Hammerhead
SFISS (10+_ years)
Suds of War
Team Cephalopod
Team Husky
Team OBOT
Team Pyramid Power
Team Shine: The Big One
Team Trash
Team Vessel
Team Vincible
Testoster-Rod
The Breakfast Club
The Donut Holes
The Flying Toastmen
The Golden Bull
The Green Team
The Recyclers
The Winos
The Zach Attacks!
Thick and Thin
Three Crazy Pigs
Tin Men
Tracy-Air
Tree Huggers
Tropic Island Snow: The Hawaiin Bobsled Team

What is it?

Wiki

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This is a must see. 3 Rear Projection transparent large touch displays. The resolution looks great for being how bright it is in that room. Wondering if it can do multi-touch.

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In the future we will always be beautiful.

The Overview:
“When human raters are presented with a collection of shapes and asked to rank them according to their aesthetic appeal, the results often indicate that there is a statistical consensus among the raters. Yet it might be difficult to define a succinct set of rules that capture the aesthetic preferences of the raters. In this work, we explore a data-driven approach to aesthetic enhancement of such shapes. Specifically, we focus on the challenging problem of enhancing the aesthetic appeal (or the attractiveness) of human faces in frontal photographs (portraits), while maintaining close similarity with the original.

The key component in our approach is an automatic facial attractiveness engine trained on datasets of faces with accompanying facial attractiveness ratings collected from groups of human raters. Given a new face, we extract a set of distances between a variety of facial feature locations, which define a point in a high-dimensional “face space”. We then search the face space for a nearby point with a higher predicted attractiveness rating. Once such a point is found, the corresponding facial distances are embedded in the plane and serve as a target to define a 2D warp field which maps the original facial features to their adjusted locations. The effectiveness of our technique was experimentally validated by independent rating experiments, which indicate that it is indeed capable of increasing the facial attractiveness of most portraits that we have experimented with.”

Taken from here:
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer/

Technorati Tags: Beautification, Beautification Engine, Screenshots, software, Tommer Leyvand

Much of our research went onto help inspire the Whirl Wind application that NASA uses today.

We also helped innovate the sharing and the distribution of custom annotated 3D worlds via a world wide network of collaborators. The application is no longer available to use but it is worth learning about as it relates to the user experience.

Learn More Here:
Eventscope

From the site:

A multidisciplinary team of experts in visual design, educational curriculum design, cognitive psychology, software engineering, and geology/ planetary science use interactivity, real data, education-reform and cognitive psychology concepts to extend the walls of the classroom to far away places.

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Inamo – an innovative restaurant in London has installed touch sensitive tables which customers can use to place an order and even call a cab:

“At the core of Inamo is our interactive ordering system. Diners place orders from an illustrated food and drinks menu projected on to their table surface. You’ll set the mood, discover the local neighborhood, and even order a taxi home.”

We will see more of these types of interactive systems as projectors and the software that runs them hit a price point that is favorable.

I wonder if I do not like the Miso, can I hit undo?

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But let us be honest, the blackberry is meant for business emailers. Blackberry users are not fundamentally in need to be wow’d or do they need or want to play virtual pool with multiple fingers while waiting for their Lexus to get detailed.

I think most Blackbery users want simplicity. They want their email and more recently want their maps and GPS. Build a rock solid experience around that goal. Don’t muddy up the experience by providing too much. Don’t get saturated by technology that is not in your game. Push the envelope in other places like:

IM/IRC chat interfaces
Super easy teleconference tools
PDF viewers and ways to EDIT pdf documents
Stock management tools
Make people yern for a ‘real’ Blackberry keyboard (don’t virtualize it. Update: too late)

“The virtual keyboard produces a clicking sound and sensation when pressed, which makes it feel very similar to typing on an actual keyboard.”

Will give them kudos for trying if it works out.

Cater to your business market and innovate there. Don’t go the iPhone and Android path. Who cares about the music platform for a Blackberry. Focus on the business.

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This e-Newspaper device is an attempt to design utilization characteristics and utilization scenarios of future cultural technologies in such a way that new cultural practices can establish themselves in conjunction with familiar media.

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