Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 4:00PM | Email Article I stopped by the West 14th Street Apple Store, and having seen it in person, I can join in the chorus: Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Retinal Display definitely looks amazing. Thin, light, fast as hell. I’m in the camp that thinks it’s pricey, but will get cheaper in a generation or so (like the MacBook Air did). It’s the direction the notebook industry as a whole will invariably go in.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 9:14AM | Email Article Interesting things are happening on the gestural/spatial computer interaction front. First up, Leap Motion garnered a lot of buzz a week or two ago. This little brick hangs out next to your computer and allows you to interact with it by tracking your gestures. It seems to be tracking movements at an incredibly high-resolution, too, as seen in this demo:
An SDK and app store are in the works, promising lots of fun stuff will be readily available when the Leap Motion ships at the end of the year.
T(ether), from the MIT Media Lab is an iPad-based 3D object manipulation and animation tool. Using motion capture and the built-in cameras on the iPad, it offers immersive interaction with the 3D data, and even allows multiple people to collaboratively edit the same virtual environment. The video explains it better than I ever could:
While you can pre-order the Leap Motion for the grand sum of $70, the T(ether) appears to be still in the concept phase. The future is here, man.
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 9:38PM | Email Article Algorithm, my ass. This is f*cking voodoo magic.
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 1:30PM | Email Article 
Skimming through my Aperture library, I came across what I now think is a really nice image. I like the lighting, I like the perspective… the processing makes me wonder what kind of mood I was in that night.
Finds like these make me wonder what other forgotten gems are languishing in my 40k+ image library, waiting to be rediscovered.
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