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What the tech? Let’s Get Physical with Facebook.
Oct 21st
Connections for Facebook from Obscura Digital on Vimeo.
It’s official! Facebook officially has penetrated into the physical world we live in. Obscura Digital has created a augmented reality experience via Facebook using overhead projectors, 3D cameras and… wait for it… wait for it… YOU! When you log in to this environment (for lack of better words) a radial visualization is constructed (visually on the floor around you) from your social graph data, creating your own unique “fingerprint”. Colors and lines connect you with people who share one or more of commonalities (mutual friends, interests, schools, locations, birth sign, even languages spoken!). When two or more people are within a close range from you that have common connections, a slideshow of friends and interests appear between you and them.
What The Tech?! Series (What is it?) What is, "What the Tech?!" The "What the Tech?!" Series covers technologies that makes you take a second look while uncontrollably tilting your head to the side. Similar to what a K-9 does when seeing something it doesn't quite understand. So when we spot technology that just makes us go wonder, "What the heck is that?", well that is something that deservers to be covered here.
Source: Obscura Digital
What the Tech? Is this the Technology behind the Back to the Future Hover Board?
Oct 18th
No this isn’t a urinal cake. This is just mind blowing.
It’s called Quantum Trapping. And if you ask me, it is really freaking cool! What this technology will be used for has not been stated, but I sure do hope this means we’ll all have Hover Boards, like in Back to the Future Part 3, in 2015.
What The Tech?! Series (What is it?) What is, "What the Tech?!" The "What the Tech?!" Series covers technologies that makes you take a second look while uncontrollably tilting your head to the side. Similar to what a K-9 does when seeing something it doesn't quite understand. So when we spot technology that just makes us go wonder, "What the heck is that?", well that is something that deservers to be covered here.
Source: ASTCvideos (YouTube)
BRAIN BONER! Ghost Town to Test Renewable Energy
Oct 3rd
What is it about a ghost town that is so damn intriguing? You just can’t help but contemplate what transpired for a town once full of citizens to suddenly up and go. Looks like the next spot for future green testing will look a lot less like TRON, and a lot more like a ghost town in New Mexico. Huh?
The Center, as it will be called, will invest $200 million into the 20 square-mile city, and plans to be the test grounds for energy infrastructure, smart grids, traffic systems, wireless networks and more.*
The Center will be home to many houses, highways and commercial buildings, and plan to build structures to mock various styles, both old and new to make it seem more “realistic”. Those embarking on this project say it will be the first of its’ kind- allowing private companies and research institutions to test new technologies in a real-world setting.
CEO Bob Brumley claims that it will still be a few months until everything is final, and although no humans will be living there- the city will be conducted just as real people were using it. Puts a whole new-age meaning to ghost town, doesn’t it?
The future is RAD.
Bringing out the boner in your brain,
SmashWire.net
*Washington, D.C.-based tech firm Pegasus Global Holdings
What the tech?! A cooling unit? Heat plate? Nope, it’s the Turnstyle
Jan 21st
Feast your eyes on the Turnstyle. For those of you born after 1985, it plays something called Vinyl Records, essentially big black CD’s (Look it up on Wikipedia or something). For those of you born prior to 1985, you know what I’m talking about here.
Yes, this is in fact a turntable, a record player, a phonograph. It’s a minimalist one at that. This very well designed turntable stripped everything away but the bare essentials. It contains:
- The motor to spin the record.
- The needle to read the music imprinted on the record.
- The speaker to output the music.
- And the controls to turn it on/off, etc.
This beautifully designed piece was created by R.D. Silva.
My hat is off to you Silva. Very well done.
Click through to view more photos of the player.
What The Tech?! Series (What is it?) What is, "What the Tech?!" The "What the Tech?!" Series covers technologies that makes you take a second look while uncontrollably tilting your head to the side. Similar to what a K-9 does when seeing something it doesn't quite understand. So when we spot technology that just makes us go wonder, "What the heck is that?", well that is something that deservers to be covered here.
What the Tech?! It's the Hövding, duh!
Oct 19th
Welcome to the first edition of “What the Tech?!” For this inaugural edition, we have a very special item for you. What is it you ask?
It’s not a personal surround sound stereo system.
It’s not a prop from the 1987 theatrical hit, Spaceballs.
It’s not an oversized George Washington wig, released just in time for Halloween.
and……it’s not the new look in Haute Couture Fashion from the runways of New Yorks Fashion Week.
So what exactly is it?! Here’s a clue, you use one when you go to work. Give up? Click through to find out and watch a video of it in action.
What The Tech?! Series (What is it?) What is, "What the Tech?!" The "What the Tech?!" Series covers technologies that makes you take a second look while uncontrollably tilting your head to the side. Similar to what a K-9 does when seeing something it doesn't quite understand. So when we spot technology that just makes us go wonder, "What the heck is that?", well that is something that deservers to be covered here.
