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Robots!!

LucidTouch – the see-through mobile device

The Iphone has the neat abiliity for you to use multiple fingers to select things on the screen, but with all our digits on the screen how can you see anything? Well microsoft thinks they figured it out by projecting your fingers through the device. Confused? Look at the pictures and check the link!

Gizmag reports:

Article Summary

March 7, 2008 Touch is a compelling input modality for interactive devices, but fingers get in the way on the small screen of a mobile device. Microsoft held its annual Techfest earlier this week, showing a range of new technologies certain to play a role in the future of mankind. One that jumped out at us was the LucidTouch, a mobile device that addresses this limitation by allowing the user to control the application by touching the back of the see-through device. The key to making the LucidTouch usable is pseudo-transparency: by overlaying an image of the user’s hands onto the screen, Microsoft has created the illusion of the mobile device itself being semitransparent, allowing users to accurately acquire targets while not obscuring the screen with their fingers and hand.

LucidTouch – the see-through mobile device

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Direct Note Access, even if your not into music creation..this is neat!

Check out the movie on the link to see what they are talking about, you won't be disapointed. Fascinating!

Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. The unique access that Melodyne affords to pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes will now also be afforded to individual notes within chords.

celemony_ :: Direct Note Access

Quicktime movie direct link

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YEAH, SO? : 68% of Americans suffer disconnection anxiety, should probably go outside

68 percent of Americans in general feel anxious when not connected in one way or another to gadgets and the internet. See Link:

68% of Americans suffer disconnection anxiety, should probably go outside - Engadget

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Technology News: Virtual Worlds: Life as a Full-Time Second Lifer

Teasa Copprue of Detroit, 31, quit her job as a graphic designer two years ago to focus full time on Second Life. She designs everything from boots to buildings for her customers in-world, and has been richly rewarded. Last year was a bad year, she says, because she parted ways with her in-game partner of some years and had to rebuild. Still, she ended the year with two in-game islands and $150,000 in real-world cash. Click above for the full story from Heather Newman.

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FotoFlexor

Wow some pretty wild stuff you can now do on online foto editors, some of this stuff you can't even do in photoshop. speaking of which they will have an online version themselves soon!

http://fotoflexer.com/

like that cool site rsizr.com you can resize an image an remove things without distorting the image,see earlier post

Easily cut out with autosnap

Autotint