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Best of ‘09: Facebook’s creepy friend suggestions
The Future of Media —
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From our 2009 best-of the IPG Lab blog series:Recently, I began to notice that Facebook’s friend suggestions were increasingly accurate, and increasingly far-fetched.At first, it seemed innocent enough. My husband’s aunt appeared on my “Suggestions/Add as a Friend” sidebar. While I like Patty and was happy to ...21 hours ago -
Three reasons Android could terminate Apple
The Future of Media —
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The smartphone market seems to be shoe-in: Apple has got momentum in the space reminiscent of their takeover of the MP3 player market years prior with the iPod. Despite this momentum, the discerning media planner working on mobile for six months out should take note – Google’s Android is poised to crash Apple’s ...2 days ago -
Biogen Drops Facet Bid, Aveo Reveals IPO Ambitions, Pfizer Partners with Adimab, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News
Xconomy —
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Roundup , Life Sciences , acquisitions Rebecca Zacks wrote: New England’s drug developers and device makers are squeezing in a few more partnerships, acquisitions, financings, and strategic moves before the year’s end. —Acceleron Pharma, the Cambridge, MA-based biotech that’s building its own ...3 days ago -
How to See Yourself in Pretty Colors
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I found a fascinating link through Twitter today, posted by @MuseumMarketing (a.k.a. Jim Richardson). Aaron Zinman et. al. at MIT Media Lab have created an application that allows you to see a visual representation of your name’s social media presence online. The application is called Personas and it was ...3 days ago -
MIT Media Lab Director Aims to Transform Healthcare—By Bringing Patients Front and Center
Xconomy —
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X Factor , Healthcare IT , MIT Robert Buderi wrote: An avalanche of new technology promises to transforming healthcare. You’ve heard a lot about it: Electronic medical records. New ways to mine genomic data to match patients with the right medicines. Everything from iPhone apps and robots to help you ...4 days ago -
Best of ‘09: Yoostar is Guitar Hero for movies
The Future of Media —
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From our 2009 best-of the IPG Lab blog series (update, Yoostar is now for sale in stores and makes a great holiday gift!):What if you could star in famous movies, without ever leaving your home? That is what Yoostar Entertainment Group hopes to deliver to consumers with their recently unveiled Yoostar product. Using ...4 days ago -
MIT’s BiDi screen lets you interact with off-screen gestures
Gizmo Watch —
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The latest in the technological advancement from MIT’s Media Lab is a multitouch computing interface that also captures off-screen interactions. Hailed as the BiDi, the I/O device is an everyday LCD screen modified into a unit that can capture and display images. The bi-directional screen allows the viewer to ...1 week ago -
Mobile visual search – GetFugu or get Google?
The Future of Media —
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As mobile continues to develop, the world of search on mobiles is heating up. Recently, Google launched Google Goggles, an experiment from the search giant in visual search. The Lab reached out to their partner GetFugu to find out how Google’s release changes the landscape in respect to GetFugu’s visual and ...1 week ago -
Transitioning to a digital news world
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Transitioning from a print to a digital news world from JD Lasica on Vimeo . I f I were starting out in journalism today, I’d probably opt to work for a Web-based publication — or start my own — rather than learn the ropes at a newspaper. Because those ropes are becoming increasingly frayed. We’ve ...1 week ago -
LCD screen that works by interpreting hand gestures
Thaindian News —
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London, Dec 16 (ANI): Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a novel LCD screen that works by interpreting hand gestures, without touching the screen.They insist viewers can control on-screen objects by waving their arms in the air without touching the screen, let alone a mouse or ...1 week ago -
Sixth Sense - Blending Digital + Real World Interactions
Bruce MacVarish Notes —
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A t a Nov 2009 Ted presentation, Pranav Mistry of the MIT Media Lab provided an update on the status of his Sixth Sense Project and his vision for integrating our interactions between the digital and real world. As you watch this, consider the possibilities of an open platform that changes how we ...1 week ago -
Kids Have an Itch to Program? Scratch It!
Mombian —
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Do your kids like to use computers? Do they linger in the computer areas of science museums, playing with the demos? Do they eye the Lego Mindstorms robot sets until you see the nearly $300 price tag and quickly usher them away? Here’s good news: Scratch , a programming language designed just for kids, is ...1 week ago -
OLPC one laptop per child XO prototype at siggraph 2007
Free Laptop and Notebook Information —
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matthew hockenberry of creativesynthesis.net demonstrates the one laptop per child’s fourth production prototype of the ‘hundred-dollar laptop’ at siggraph 2007 – video by leonardo bonanni of hyperexperience.com FAQ -Yes, this is the hundred dollar laptop -No, you can’t buy one – they are only sold to ...1 week ago -
BIDI screen from MIT Media Lab
Image-Acquire.com —
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Related Posts Nimzy Portable Personal Screen ElevenTen Color Debuts Wide-Format Inkjet Media Media Sciences Clearcase Color Toner Cartridges Sony Announces the LTO-4 Photo Contest Tags: 3d images , Bidi Screen , MIT Media Lab Related posts Hammacher Schlemmer Introduces The Only 3D Web ...2 weeks ago -
MIT Media Lab: Light Sensing Displays
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By using light sensing displays, MIT’s Media Lab was able to put together a display that responds to gestures by sensing the movement of your hands through light-sensing pixels and pin holes. Here’s how visiting researcher Douglas Lanman describes the technique: …instead of an LCD, an array of pinholes is ...2 weeks ago -
Behind MIT’s DARPA Weather Balloon challenge win
Social Capital Blog —
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MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team As many of you know, the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team (part of the MIT Media Lab) won the race to locate the DARPA Red Weather Balloon Challenge . Their system was a reverse Ponzi scheme where those finding the balloon got $2000, and those progressively farther back the ...2 weeks ago -
MIT gestural computing makes multitouch look old hat
Engadget —
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Ah, the MIT Media Lab, home to Big Birds illegitimate progeny , augmented reality projects aplenty, and now three-dimensional gestural computing. The new bi-directional display being demoed by the Cambridge-based boffins performs both multitouch functions that were familiar with and hand movement recognition in the ...2 weeks ago -
SixthSense- a wearable gestural interface (MIT Media Lab)
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How shoppers make choices
The Future of Media —
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The laptops are arranged in neat rows, seemingly endless black rectangles each glowing with bright blue screens. I point out to my daughter what the numbers on the little signs next to computer mean. I show her how to evaluate the features – Longer battery life, more RAM, bigger hard drive, larger screen, total ...2 weeks ago -
Focus on shopper marketing
The Future of Media —
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The Lab is proud to announce our partnership with the In-Store Marketing Institute. We’ve partnered to provide our clients with greater insight into the shopper marketing field, and the Institute will be an integral part of our Retail Experience Center which is opening in 2010. We sat down over email to discuss what ...2 weeks ago
