As we commented earlier, printing — and imaging in general — does not need to happen in regular surfaces. Any kind of media, like food, is possible, like in the following interesting video where the authors have built a latte art printer:
It is amazing the number of custom devices to build custom objects that people built. We are smoothly advancing towards personal fabrication…
As frontiers among disciplines and devices fade out, we are more likely to see natural interactions arising from many more different objects than we expect. The following example has little to do with technology (well, besides the relationship with customized toast images proposed by boldlentil), but I think it is very mind-opening:
Yammy!
In the path of making computer interfaces more natural, the Publicis & Hal Riney website proposes a very interesting method: navigate throught their website only with the webcam, without the need of a mouse. It suffices to stand at a certain distance of the camera and wave your arms to select the right and left directions.
Check it out, soon computers will be able to understand our signs, speech, body language…
In the information society we live in, sometimes we loose original names and concepts by dehumanized incomprehensible codings. In this line, the post “An online color thesaurus” permits to specify colors in natural language and to find out which is the corresponding RGB webcolor.
And you can also collaborate enlarging their database!
Oh, my God… It looks like BS is severely spreading to video resumées!!
Check out Esquire’s post on The Worst Video Resumes Ever for some pearls. You can’t miss it!
Well, if we are about to talk about the future, let’s define web 4.0…
Here’s my definition: Web 4.0 = “The network owns you”.
But, which is yours?
