Haptic interfaces are getting better

qamar  linked to this TED video. Pranav Mistry is a stu­dent at MIT who has inven­ted a device that pro­jects data onto any sur­face, res­ult­ing in a very Minor­ity Report-like inter­ac­tion. Look at a board­ing pass and it will con­nect to...

Shadowrun/SLA eat your heart out!

OMG, listen­ing to KQED and there’s a guy with a pros­thetic eye talk­ing about devel­op­ing a camera to put into his eye socket. Cyber­netic wire­less eye camera!!! It’s almost real!

[MELBOURNE] Merri Creek Labyrinth…

I rang the Merri Creek Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee to enquire about plant­ing a tree for Harper near the labyrinth and was told there are plans for that area and that the labyrinth is “not an offi­cial struc­ture”. I expressed my sur­prise and noted that many...

Still work to do…

Another Inter­na­tional Women’s Day and no rally in Mel­bourne. Hmmm. Do people think the work’s all been done? I don’t have time to do the sort of extens­ive research I’d usu­ally do for a post like this and quote stats at you all and provide links for all...