3D kerstprojectie op de Bijenkorf.

Bron; www.adformatie.nl
Op de gevel van de Bijenkorf Rotterdam is sinds gistermiddag een '3D-kerstprojectie' te zien.

Deze kerstprojectie is gedurende de kerstkoopavonden op 21, 22 en 23 december van 17.00 tot 22.00 uur te zien. Toeschouwers die de gevelprojectie in Rotterdam filmen en deze filmpjes op YouTube plaatsen en doorlinken naar de Bijenkorf facebookpagina, maken kans op prijzen.
De projectie is ontworpen voor de zijgevel van de Bijenkorf Rotterdam. De totale projectie is 84 meter breed en 20 meter hoog. De projectie wordt gerealiseerd door acht Barco HD projectoren van 20.000 ansi-lumen per projector, om zo een optimale lichtopbrengst en scherpte te creëren.
Marketingdirecteur Robert Bohemen van de Bijenkorf: ‘Het pand van architect Breuer is drie dagen lang een levende kerstgroet van de Bijenkorf. De kerstprojectie is een kerstcadeau aan Nederland, het is de grootste 3D projectie van het land. Wij hopen met de 3D kerstprojectie een nieuwe traditie te starten.’

Multi-touch SmartBoard.

Take a look at the video demonstration of the new SMARTBoard (800 series) that offers multi-touch and gesture interaction support so that two students can interact with the board at the same time.


•Students can use 2 finger gestures to enlarge objects and move them around.
•Two students can interact with the board at the same time to complete activities.
•SMARTInk/Calligraphic Ink creates stylized print as you write. Whatever is written or drawn on the SMARTBoard becomes an object in the SMARTNotebook, allowing for things to be resized or rotated. (2:04)
•Multi-touch gestures enabled in Window 7 and Snow Leopard work with the SMARTBoard.
•Software development kit (3:28): Example of a physics application developed by a 3rd-party developer. The application supports two students working at the SMARTBoard at the same time

Learn more: http://www.smarttech.com/us/Solutions...

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De dunste LG monitor.

Bron; www.fan.tv
Hoe dun kan een monitor worden? De LG E2290 is slechts 0,73 centimeter dik.
Deze LG E2290 is dus een monitor voor wie het dunste van het dunste wil. LG kan de monitor zo dun maken door de elektronica naar de monitorvoet te verplaatsen. Onder deze superdunne monitor staat dus wel een flinke voet. Wat overigens niet misstaat.
De resolutie van de dunne LG E2290 monitor bedraagt 1920 bij 1080, de helderheid 250cd/m2 en de dynamische contrastverhouding van 10.000.000:1. De beeldkwaliteit is dus goed genoeg om de monitor als televisie te gebruiken in combinatie met een computer of mediacenter. Aan de muur hangen is echter geen optie door de voet met de elektronica.

Via diverse aansluitkngen (analoog, digitaal, hdmi) kun je computers en andere apparatuur aan de monitor hangen.

De LG E2290 monitor heeft een adviesprijs van 329 euro en kan via computerwinkels gekocht worden.

Map of Interactive Gesture Based Technologies.

Here is the description of the concepts outlined in the chart:

"If all of them belong to the “gesture control” world, the best segmentation is made from 4 categories:

Finger tracking: precise finger tracking, it can be single touch or multi-touch (this latest not always being a plus). Finger tracking also encompasses hand tracking which comes, for LM3LABS products, as a gestures.
Body tracking: using one’s body as a pointing device. Body tracking can be associated to “passive” interactivity (users are engaged without their decision to be) or “active” interactivity like 3D Feel where “players” use their body to interact with content.
Face tracking: using user face as a pointing device. It can be mono user or multiple users. Face tracking is a “passive” interactivity tool for engaging user in an interactive relationship with digital content.
Image Tracking: Augmented Reality (AR) lets users use images (flyers, real products, t-shirts, faces,…) to interact with digital content. AR can be markerless or marker-based. Markerless technology has advantages but marker-based AR is easier for users to understand. (Please note here that Markerless AR is made in close collaboration with AR leader Total Immersion)." -LM3LABS
If you are interested in this subject and want to view some good examples of off-the-desktop interfaces and interactions, take a look at the LM3LABS blog, as well as Nicolas Loeillot's Vimeo channel.

interactive balloons from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.

World's biggest Digital Signage Screen.

Now a French company is marketing (and installing) technology, that really does turn a building into a media vehicle – with LED lighting actually embedded in the double-glazed windows of office towers.

As spotted in OOH-TV, the King’s Road Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has installed technology from a company called Citiled that turns the north, south and west facades into giant screens. Not sure why the east not done, but assume it has to do with Islam and culture.

Press reports on the project indicate:
21 floors on the north and south façades and 16 floors on the west façade have been equipped with LED screens developed by Citiled, i.e. a total of 9,850 sq m and more than 5 million LEDs, making this structure the largest Media Façade in the world installed on an inhabited building. It took more than 6 months to produce the 10,000 sq metres of this media façade, occupying a team of around twenty engineers and craftsmen for 3 months during the project design phase and then 6 months for installation and testing.
Citiled is a four-year-old, 25-person company based in Paris. The LEDs,as noted, are embedded in rows inside the window glass and the cabling embedded in the mullions. The wiring all maps back to a central control room that manages what’s called the Digital Media Facade.

Toshiba's new glasses-free 3D display.

Bron: www.engadget.com
Autostereoscopic (read: glasses-free) 3D screens sound like all the rage, but the narrow zones from which you can comfortably view their images have made them a dubious proposition. That's not stopping Toshiba Mobile Display, however, which recently came up with a novel idea for a self-adjusting display. By sticking a six-axis accelerometer in this 12.1-inch slate, the company can tilt the tablet's viewing angle as the tablet itself is tilted, letting viewers effectively look around 3D objects on screen, using software algorithms rather than the fancy lens-and-camera assembly that Microsoft's been prototyping. Toshiba figures it'll make a splash with e-tailers -- because who doesn't want to play with a prospective purchase in 3D space? -- but is mostly talking up the tech as a way to extend the limited 3D viewing angles of these sorts of displays.

Blackberry PlayBook tabletcomputer .

De Blackberry PlayBook tabletcomputer heeft een opmerkelijke nieuwe eigenschap. Niet alleen het scherm maar ook de rand is aanraakgevoelig.Je kunt de Blackberry PlayBook zodoende niet alleen bedienen via de touchscreen maar ook door je vingers over de rand te bewegen. Alle vier de randen zijn touch sensitive.
In de video kun je zien hoe dit in zijn werk gaat.

New LED technology from NanoLumens.

It has been announced that a new LED technology from NanoLumens will be distributed in the UK and Ireland by PSCo. The thin, flexible and lightweight LED display can be shaped into convex or concave configurations, allowing it to be wrapped around columns and flexed across walls. It also offers low power consumption, the company states.

Stuart Holmes, managing director of PSCo, comments: "At just 41kg, this is a product which keeps infrastructure costs to a minimum, while delivering a very bright, high-quality display."

The light weight of the product means that it can be hung from ceilings. It has been designed with the aim of being quick and easy to install, featuring plug-and-play capabilities.

"As a company, PSCo offers a highly technical knowledge base and in-house servicing department, enabling the same level of support for pre-sales and post-sales care that we can offer on home soil in the US," notes John Wilson, president of NanoLumens.

"The product was well received at Digital Signage Expo, Global Gaming Expo and other industry shows this year so we are excited to see the response from the European audience when we exhibit with PSCo at ISE in February."

Laser Powered Eco-Graffiti to London.

The technomagicians at Dentsu hit another home run with an interactive promotion for greentomatocars that uses lasers to sketch murals on buildings.
We admit that we're total fan boys for everything that Dentsu London create. Given their freaky-deaky fusions of design and high-tech, how could we not be? Their latest creation, promoting London's hybrid-vehicle taxi fleet greentomatocars, uses lime-green lasers to paint temporary doodles all over London's Battersea Power Station. Looks like they had a blast:
he laser-painting is supposed to give off the high-tech, yet scruffy vibe that greentomatocars presents with its eco-friendly cars. (The company even hacked free wifi and plug-in power into some of their vehicles.) Dentsu teamed up with Sensaa to make magic laser-wands connected to computers that project interactive digital "paint" onto surfaces in realtime, tracking the wand's movements. (An effect very similar to that invented by the Graffiti Research Lab, with their laser tagging.)

Lighter On London :: Laser Murals from greentomatocars on Vimeo.