Edwards Invention

Filed under: News and developments by Digado

‘Whether it’s casting magic spells using your mind or relaying expressions in real time, EmoKey links the Emotiv technology to your applications by easily converting detected events into any combination of keystrokes. EmoKey is a nonintrusive, lightweight, background process that runs behind your existing games or applications. EmoKey lets you create profiles that define how [...]

Sweet! Wiimote and Papervision3D

Filed under: Digital Adoption by Digado

A quick post on a ‘new’ application of the Papervision 3D technology. After we’ve seen Johnny Lee take the Wiimote to his interfaces for head tracking and touch screens, Seedylifestyle has found a way to put the Nintendo Wiimote to use in Flash (& browsers) through Papervision. The provided demo speaks for itself:

What excites me [...]

One step closer to clientless Virtual Worlds

Filed under: News and developments by Digado

Another update from our Russian friends over at Alternativa 3D. They have made a massive breaktrough in bringing virtual worlds to the browser. By using the latest Flash 10 player (currently in Beta, download it over here) they have managed to improve the rendering of 3D to the graphics card. Instead of using a technique [...]

The Dictatorship of the Desktop

Filed under: Research, Trends by Digado

Every time I see digital technology move away from our traditional desk top set up (desk, chair, PC, 17′+ monitor) I get excited about the new opportunities of breaking this static environment of interaction with data. When the Wii introduced a mainstream audience to alternative ways to interact with applications I was shocked at how [...]

Virtual Worlds at the center of Technology and Society trends

Filed under: Trends by Digado

Ross Dawson over at rossdawsonblog.com created an interesting ‘map’ of webtrends for 2008 called the ‘Trend Blend 2008+‘ (click to see the complete map, PDF warning). The map is based on the Shanghai underground, having 5 major lines (Society, Politics, Economy, Technology, Demographics) - connecting 5 big trends (Digitalisation, Globalisation, Ageing, Anxiety and Virtual Worlds) [...]