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August 12, 2007
HBO Voyeur
Voyeur is an x-ray view into different apartments of a fictional city. In one apartment, a man meditates for seven days, becomes luminous, and attains nirvana. What's interesting is the amount of production detail involved. The candles in his apartment melt, a plant in the corner grows, adds petals, and blossoms.
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August 11, 2007
Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation
Available here
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SIGGRAPH 2k7 - Photo Raw Link Dump
There are 19,000 SIGGRAPH Flickr photos:
E-Tech: Time Globe
E-Tech: Time Globe 2
E-Tech(?): Holo Globe
E-Tech: OLPC
E-Tech: Glowbots 1
E-Tech: Glowbots 2
E-Tech: Glowbots 3
E-Tech: Crazy Haptic Shoes !?
E-Tech: Color E-Ink
E-Tech: E-Ink Motorola phone screen
E-Tech: E-Ink prototype
E-Tech: E-Ink prototype 2
E-Tech: Flickering light-field display by rotating mirror
E-Tech: Microsoft Surface 1
E-Tech: Microsoft Surface 2
E-Tech: Microsoft Surface 3
E-Tech: Signage
E-Tech: Jim Blinn
E-Tech: Grimage 1
E-Tech: Grimage 2
E-Tech: Grimage 3
E-Tech: Qualcomm display
E-Tech: OLE 3D visual paradox game by Jun Fujiki
E-Tech: Multi-touch via refraction and a webcam
E-Tech: Crazy LED "image wands" 1
E-Tech: Crazy LED "image wands" 2
E-Tech: Crazy LED "image wands" 3
E-Tech: VR robot headset
E-Tech: VR robot
E-Tech: Turtle game, two projectors provide the evolving game "world" for the turtle robot to move around in
Art Show: WorldProcessor, Globe 1
Art Show: WorldProcessor, Terrorist Attacks
Art Show: WorldProcessor, Globe 2
Art Show: WorldProcessor, Globe 3
Art Show: WorldProcessor, Globe 4
Art Show: WorldProcessor, Globe 5
Art Show: WorldProcessor, Globe 6
Art Show: WorldProcessor, Globe 7
Art Show: WorldProcessor, Globe 8
Random Stuff: Taiko Drummers
Random Stuff: Mersive 15-project HD display
Random Stuff: Mersive 27-megapixel display
Random Stuff: Mersive, wide-angle
Rotating light globe
Rotating light globe 2
Exhibition: OmniGlobe by ARC Science Simulations ($120,000 ???) Product page
Exhibition: OmniGlobe, another view
Exhibition: Pixar
Exhibition: Google index globe
Exhibition: Contour (?)
Exhibition: Aguru Dome by Aguru Images
Exhibition: VR half-globe 1
Exhibition: VR half-globe 2
Papers: Room 6
Convention Center Architecture: The Tubes
Convention Center Architecture: Tubes from below
Convention Center Architecture: Escalators
Convention Center Architecture: Escalators from above
Convention Center Architecture: The Sails Pavilion, posters, tech lounge
Convention Center Architecture: The Sails Pavilion
Convention Center Architecture: Upstairs (by the Administration Offices?)
Convention Center Architecture: Upstairs, by the Animation Theaters
Convention Center Architecture: Upstairs
Convention Center Architecture: Stairs
Convention Center Architecture: Outdoors
Convention Center Architecture: Outdoors, upstairs
Convention Center Architecture: Out front
Convention Center Architecture: Bayside
Convention Center Architecture: Frontside
Convention Center Architecture: In front of Exhibition hall
Electronic Theater: Outside
Electronic Theater: Jim Blinn playing old-school vector asteroids (via special laser projectors)
Electronic Theater: Asteroids
Electronic Theater: Teapot
San Diego: Nighttime Hotels from the Marina near the Convention Center (Marriott? Hyatt?)
San Diego: View of hotels
San Diego: View of hotels from Convention Center
San Diego: Gaslamp Quarter Entrance
San Diego: Gaslamp Quarter Entrance - Wide
Hilton: Lovely zebra-print bed spread
Hilton: Bed spread, another angle :)
Hilton: View of convention center from front of Hilton
Hilton: Palm trees, dog park in front of Hilton
Hilton: Bench outside Hilton entrance
Reception: At the marina
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SIGGRAPH 2k7 - One Laptop Per Child
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), aka, the $100 laptop was on display at SIGGRAPH 2007. The unit on display was called the XO. I couldn't help but notice that the keyboard is freakishly small. The OLPC has tiny keys covered by gummy rubber surface that makes it difficult to type. It's hunt-and-peck for anyone over 16, but kids will love this keyboard.
Here's Matthew Hockenberry of CreativeSynthesis.net demo'ing the XO on the show floor:
The AMD Geode CPU runs at 433 MHz, which is fast enough to play Doom. Performance degrades noticeably when switching between applications. Notice how long it takes for the camera application to boot in the video above.
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August 04, 2007
Domain Names Scarce Again
If you're having trouble getting a good domain name, you're not alone. According to the VeriSign Domain Report (June 2007), the number of domains registered has doubled since 2004 (from >60K to >120K). One interesting trend is the growth of registrations in country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs). In the first quarter of 2007 alone, 10,700,000 new domains were registered.
Given that there are between 500K and 1 million unique English words (depending on whether or not you include technical and scientific jargon), it should come as no surprise that every conceivable, well-known word already has a domain.
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