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The State of the Internet
I often post about data viz. Here’s a nice animated vid that compares internet data across services, outlets and country.
234 million websites
126 million blogs
12.2 billion videos viewed monthly on youTube (US)
1.4 billion email users
1.73 billion internet users
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
Transmedia Design and Conceptualization – The Making of Purefold
MIT’s Futures of Entertainment conference is held each fall. I had the privilege of speaking at the event in 2008. It’s an amazing mix of people from various sides of the industry. This past year the conference had a number of excellent transmedia focused panels. In the following panel the team behind Purefold give an inside look at the project.
Lego AR
Of course you could look at the picture on the box but this is a cool use of AR to demo the contents prior to purchase.
Anyone need a Snow Removal Robot?
Meet “Yuki-taro, the friendly snowbot” – for a million yen you can have a Snow Removal Robot that clears snow while creating igloo bricks, is GPS enabled and uses twin cameras to see.
(hat tip inventorspot)
Bioshock 2 trailer
Very much looking forward to the release of Bioshock 2 which comes out this week. I’d love to get my hands on the game bible that I’ve heard rumors about – Bioshock is a rich game world while at the same time haunting, beautiful and bizzare.
NEW BREED park city vid series
The WorkBook Project joined forces with Filmmaker Magazine to produce a number of daily videos from Park City. SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.
iPhone controlled helicopter
I’ve always wanted a remote controlled helicopter especially one with a camera! The Parrot AR.Drone turns your iPhone or iTouch into a helicopter remote control. And if that wasn’t cool enough the AR.Drone taps the AR capabilities of the iPhone or iTouch to provide a cool augmented gaming experience.
