#Backtalk: Uncovering the afterlife of discarded electronics, e-waste

This project caught our attention. With a new project on display at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, MIT researchers explore what happens to used electronic devices after they leave our possession. Videos and Images available at: http://senseable.mit.edu/backtalk.   PRESS RELEASE: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT researchers who have been studying the fate of [...]

#Press Release: Film archives showcase their collections: The European Film Gateway is online

Press Release For Immediate Release Frankfurt am Main, 26 July 2011 Film archives showcase their collections: The European Film Gateway is online After nearly three years of preparation and development, the European Film Gateway – EFG –  http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu is now online. The Internet portal to the digital collections of European film archives and cinémathèques offers [...]

First free Cloud Image Recognition Engine #AR #SDK

ElipseAR is a set of tools for Augmented Reality and Computer Vision development.

D.I.Y. POP Contest – Create your own digital silkscreen print just like Andy Warhol

Create your own digital silkscreen print, just like Andy Warhol would have with the Warhol: D.I.Y. POP app from The Andy Warhol Museum. Using your built-in camera or a photo from your library as source material, you’ll learn the Warhol process step by step. Crop. Expose. Underpaint. Share. And print a virtual silkscreen. While you’re [...]

First AR Pop-up Book for iPad 2 and iPhone 4 using image recognition

Our lovely friend Helen Papagiannis did it again: what a nice new AR app! On her blog Helen writes: “I’d like to present the first AR Pop-up Book for mobile devices using image recognition (a.k.a. regular images to trigger augmented content, as opposed to the black and white square glyphs that are common in AR). [...]

A new free tool from Google to make a mobile landing page in minutes…

Perhaps this announcement of Google today could be something for you: “Today, we’re excited to announce a brand new tool to help your business get “mobile”-ized: Google Sites mobile landing pages.  With Google Sites mobile landing pages, you can build yourself a professional mobile landing page in minutes, for free — and without any coding [...]

‘Your Paintings’ puts the UK’s complete oil painting collection online

  Your Paintings is a new web initiative by the #BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation. It aims to put the nation’s complete oil painting collection online. “The UK holds in its galleries & civic buildings one of the largest collections of oil paintings in the world, a treasure trove of tens of [...]

A list of Mobile Audio Platforms

SOURCE: Mobile Audio Platforms Nancy Proctor made a list of mobile audio platforms. “The list is intended to contain information about available mobile audio platforms which satisfy as many of the below criteria as possible.  The hope is to have a central place for information on mobile audio tools that are available to help create [...]

A new participatory iPad App: ‘Be Part Of’ by Alexei Matveev

This is a nice App. It allows you to draw together with many others live on a screen at an exhibition and interact with the audience. Description Be Part Of allows you to draw together with many others live on a screen at an exhibition and interact with the audience. Current exhibition: The Center for [...]

Samurai Art on your iPad

This Samurai Art iPad application shows ancient works of art in digital form on the iPad. It has a 20-Meter Ancient Japanese Scroll included. It’s featuring the Hosokawa Family Eisei Bunko Collection. You can find the app here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id436760848?mt=8#