Missions to Mars

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Internet Speeds and Costs Worldwide

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Automatic Photo Montages

This is quite brilliant. It never would have occurred to me that such a thing as this should be built, let alone that it could be built. Nonetheless, once you see how it works and what it produces it’s quite impressive. By simply drawing shapes and associating simple keywords with those shapes the tool searches for images on Flickr, extracts parts of those images, and composites them into a final photo.

Sketch2Photo: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.

Rad iPhone Navigation Concepts

Found via Mobile Cruch, Swedish design company Ocean Observations has developed two very rad ideas on how to improve the often difficult iPhone application navigation experience.

Google Wave

Well, my invitation to Google Wave finally came through. Without being able to include more people that I know it’s hard to see if it will be useful or not, but here is what it looks like:

New York Subway Augmented Reality

I expect to see a lot more of this type thing in the next 6 – 12 months.

Here is another very practical example using ARToolkit I believe. You can check to see if your physical object will fit in any of the USPS shipping boxes without actually having a box..

TED talks worth watching

I watch TED talks daily. It’s the best thing that ever happened to my AppleTV. Here are some of my recent favorites:

Beautiful Tag Clouds

I guess it should have — but it never did — occur to me to apply tag clouds to anything and everything. Like Obama speeches or entire books, but Wordle makes it easy so there yo go.