'Technology' Category
Crowd Sourced Data in Bing Maps
This post was originally created for CScout’s Mobile Trendpool. I’ve cross posted it here as I’d think you’d find the technology and talk interesting.
At the recent TED conference, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demoed the mapping application platform that’s been integrated into Microsoft’s Bing Maps. Data from the apps associated through the (currently internal) API allows [...]Locked Grooves
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Flyfire
http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/
Google Maps Street View of Whistler’s Ski Slopes
I jumped into Google Maps a few moments ago, and found that they’ve now got Street View mapping Whistler’s ski slopes.
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Peep the ride they used to shoot the mountain:Vectorial Elevation – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
I was digging deep into my Delicious bookmarks and came across a link to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work. The link was dead, but I remember being inspired by the piece he installed in Mexico City, so I googled him to see what he’s up to these days. Delightfully I found his latest piece launched last night: [...]
Twitter/WordPress Integration Using RSS and Yahoo Pipes
I’ve worked a bit to tweak the Twitter tweets integration in this site’s sidebar.
I’m using the WordPress feedList Plugin which allows me to funnel in content from RSS feeds. Originally I was piping in the content from my @lightwerk account, but since I decided the @soundnoir feed was pertinent as well, I turned to Yahoo [...]x0xb0x
Open-source version of the Roland TB-303.
We have two–count ‘em, two–analog electrical engineers with too much time on their hands working on this project. An original TB-303 was diassembled and reverse-engineered to verify the schematic. The original transistors were analysed using big expensive curve-tracers to determine their characteristics. We measured every waveform and counted every cycle [...]North on the FDR
The bent vertical columns are something I see when shooting with a moving digital camera. What I think is happening is the sensor is capturing the frame from left to right, top to bottom. Therefore when the next row of pixels are caught, the above rows are already shifting to the right.
I may be way [...]The Known Universe vs. Powers of Ten
The video above, from the American Museum of Natural History, reminded me of the “Powers of Ten” short film (below) created by Ray and Charles Eames in 1977.
The techniques and technology are vastly updated, but the scope and impact are relativel similar.via matt langer
Another Image Upload Test
Another test. This time I’m uploading a vertical image to see how it is resized.
I love that I’ve got dueling Verizon trucks out front, and I love that I was able to catch the person running through the frame.
It seems the WordPress iPhone app resizes both portrait and landscape images to 300px on their longest [...]
