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"SENSORY-MINDS GmbH, in cooperation with "Montfort Werbung", has developed the "Multitouch Experience Cube" - an eye-catching interactive trade show event installation. The walkable LED cube for the GRASS GmbH showcase has been the highlight at the Interzum 2011 trade show in Cologne, the international leading fair for suppliers to the furniture industry.
23 LCD displays attached inside the "Multitouch Experience Cube" formed a estimated 14 meter long multitouch wall. Inside visitors experienced a interactive product show controlled via iPhone app and moderated by a host. For this a interconnected real-time 3D rendering visualization including 3D Sound has been programmed in collaboration with "Realtime Department". The application itself has been developed in Ventuz – a real-time 3D authoring software.
As a final touch a custom designed LED ceiling has been fitted inside the interactive installation. The 3D visualizations created especially for the LED ceiling reacted upon the visitors interactions with the multitouch LCD displays and intensified the unique spatial sensations inside the "Multitouch Experience Cube"."
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"Nebraska but was farming in Colorado in 1947 when he saw a demonstration of modern movable irrigation. Workers were moving and connecting pipes fitted with sprinkler heads from one part of a field to another. Sprinklers could beat a couple of problems: uneven, hilly terrain and the tendency of water to run into sandy ground before getting to the end of the ditch.
But Zybach, a lifelong tinkerer, saw something more: Why have humans set up, take down, move the equipment and repeat? Why not have the equipment move itself?
Zybach built his first prototype within a year. It rotated around a center wellhead. Guy wires that were attached to support towers held the sprinkler-fitted water pipes above the ground. Control wires and two-way water valves kept the towers in line. The first support towers moved on skids, but Zybach soon replaced those with wheels propelled by the irrigation water itself.
He applied for a patent for the “Zybach Self-Propelled Sprinkling Apparatus” in July 1949. He knew he needed to improve his invention — making it tall enough to work for corn, among other things. So, the same year he got his patent, he moved back to Nebraska and went into business with a friend, A. E. Trowbridge...."
Hi, guys and girls! We're running out of time and resources, but we're still missing one more essential space ship of our Earth Fleet.
So here's an opportunity to get your mark on the Iron Sky, by designing the Indian Spaceship.
We accept rough sketches, detailed layouts or 3D-models, anything you think works.
Remember:
Tech level is higher than today's world, but still not Star Trek.
Comedy level is subtle, yet the fact that the ship is Indian can be visible. Whatever that means - you decide :)
I'm giving 2 weeks for this task, we're in a bit of a hurry.
So Wreck on my brothers and sisters, Wreck on!
As a reference, here's the Japan space ship.
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"A self-styled digital Robin Hood downloaded more than 4 million academic articles before being tracked down by US authorities in a case that promises to become a cause célèbre for data use and freedom of information.
A grand jury in Massachusetts has indicted Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and fellow at Harvard University's Safra Centre for Ethics, on charges of wire and computer fraud for his marathon downloading spree.
The indictment also alleges that Swartz caused damage of at least $5,000 (£3,000) to computers and unlawfully obtained information over more than three months while he was copying the huge cache of articles from the database of Jstor, the giant US-based online academic repository.
Starting with a standard Acer laptop, Swartz began by using anonymous log-ins on the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in September 2010. As the size of his downloads began to alarm MIT and Jstor staff they kept trying to block Swartz's access – only for the 24-year-old to evade their attempts using simple techniques to disguise his log ins and mask his computer....
Swartz is a well-known digital activist, the founder of online group Demand Progress and for being a brilliant programmer. His arrest set off a war of metaphors between the federal authorities and his supporters over what it is exactly that Swartz planned to do with the trove of 4.8m articles.
The indictment filed in the US district court in Massachusetts said: "Swartz intended to distribute a significant portion of Jstor's archive of digitised journal articles through one of more filesharing sites."
US attorney Carmen Ortiz said: "Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars. It is equally harmful to the victim whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away."
Swartz's defenders correctly reply that copying files – especially from publicly available research databases – cannot be equated with stealing.
"It's like trying to put someone in jail for allegedly checking too many books out of the library," said David Segal, the executive director of Demand Progress, in a statement after Swartz was charged.
According to Demand Progress, MIT has already reached a settlement with Swartz, while Jstor said: "We secured from Mr Swartz the content that was taken, and received confirmation that the content was not and would not be used, copied, transferred, or distributed."...
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"...Convergence has been a much overused word, with many unfulfilled promises, since the 1980s. Transmedia, however, is truly a convergence new media end-product and process, involving cross-platform content, interactivity (most commonly the Internet), multiple digital arms, and genuine symbiosis among the platforms. "Transmedia in the social change space is highly promising but still in its early stages," Burak notes. "It is much more than a buzz and has proved successful in entertainment. But it demands careful planning and creative execution. The two things that make a transmedia, or cross-media, project work well are genuine collaboration between talents across disciplines with one group or an individual executive -producing; and deep thinking on how the components interact with each other, how they complement and how they enable reaching broader audiences."...
Updated: The results of Swartz's arraignment were added to the story July 19, 2011; 10pm BST
"Well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz was arrested in the US on Tuesday, charged with violating federal hacking laws for downloading millions of academic articles from a subscription database service that MIT had given him access to. If convicted, Swartz faces up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
Swartz, the 24-year-old executive director of Demand Progress, has a history of downloading massive data sets, both to use in research and to release public domain documents from behind paywalls. Swartz, who was aware of the investigation, turned himself in on Tuesday.
Disclosure: Swartz is a co-founder of Reddit¹, which like Wired is owned by Condé Nast. He is also a general friend of Wired.com, and has done coding work for Wired.
The grand jury indictment accuses Swartz of evading MIT's attempts to kick his laptop off the network while downloading more than four million documents from JSTOR, a not-for-profit company that provides searchable, digitized copies of academic journals. The scraping, which took place from September 2010 to January 2011 via MIT's network, was invasive enough to bring down JSTOR's servers on several occasions.
According to the US attorney's office, Swartz was arraigned in US District Court in Boston this morning where he pled not guilty to all counts. He is now free on a $100,000 unsecured bond. His next court date is 9 September, 2011 and he's represented by Andrew Good of Good and Courmier...."