Making Things Happen

This futuristic and visionary video, shows how Nokia forecasts the future to come. Even though it’s indeed a nice and, in some ways, inspirational video, I’m still partially unsatisfied with it as it doesn’t explain clearly the true value of augmented reality which, I believe, goes far beyond a translucent wake up alarm. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwvZWyLiBU If [...]

What if we could access a person’s information such as her vCard, Facebook username, LinkedIn profile, Slideshare presentation and much more by simply aiming at her our phone’s camera? The Swedish company The Astonishing Tribe is developing exactly that, called “Augmented ID”, featuring advanced face recognition algorithms. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0

40 years ago mankind landed on the moon, marking an historical moment and showing the world what science and technology can do. To celebrate this endeavor the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, created a stunning Flash website to allow us all relive the mission. It’s a must see! Go visit it here!

At the latest TechFest, Microsoft unveiled a brand new technology able to create 3D (or at least wide angle) videos from multiple streams. What’s great of this technology is that all this is done in real time. So imagine having three mobile phones at a stadium live streaming the event (like, on Qik). With this [...]

When I watched this TED presentation by Sylvia Earle on a rainy Sunday morning I thought it would be interesting as most TED presentations are, but I didn’t imagine that a scientist talking about the ocean could deliver such a great speech. From a presenter point of view it’s interesting to notice that she’s reading, [...]

All the USB modems featured a microSD slot, giving the modem the ability to also be an external flash memory drive. It’s a nice to have feature, even if it has its disadvantages because if you pop your USB modem into a friend’s computer, he’ll have to manually cancel the automatic driver installation. Vodafone USB [...]