ThinkArtificial.org is a blog written by Hrafn Th. Thorisson, as well as a community about the artificial: The world we are creating—technological and scientific and spanning full circle to design and aesthetics. Yeah, awesome, right?
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Prediction: Apple releases initial support to iPhone augmented reality apps before September 15th, 2009. Actual event: Announced 11 days after the prediction; Apple’s iPhone OS 3.1 supports augmented reality applications; expected release is in September (as predicted).
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Recently there's been an onrush of news and Web searches for augmented reality (AR), for the fist time surpassing interest in its cousin, virtual reality. Think
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Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see.
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Finally. An augmented reality application of superb execution. Layar is a Google Android OS application and an iPhone 3G S version on its way. It's the prototypical concept of delivering information by overlaying graphics onto what you see through a mobile phone's camera.
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H+ asked David Brin, Ben Goertzel, J. Storrs Hall, Vernor Vinge, and others: "Is a Terminator-like scenario possible? And if so, how likely is it?"
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For the first time, brain scans have spotted the patterns that emotions in speech leave in the brain of the listener
Think Artificial Good article on Wolfram|Alpha.
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Where Alpha exceeds, is in the presentation of its "search" results. When asked for how many internet users there are in Europe, for example, Alpha returned not just the total number, but also various plots and data for every country (apparently Vatican City only has 93 Internet users). Another que...
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Stand inside the AlloSphere—a giant metallic sphere that displays real live images of scientific data. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, creator of the sphere, demos a flythrough his colleagues brain. Simply awesome. See video below.
Think Artificial Checking out a new augmented reality game I stop to wonder: What purpose does reality serve? The game's lead developer doesn't agree with me (see comments).
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Kweekies is a new augmented reality game that's tuned to hit iPhones, Nokia Smartphones and Windows Mobile sometime this summer.
Think Artificial Think Artificial's a finalist in the student catory!
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We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual SXSW Web Awards Finalists below. The winners in each category are revealed at the SXSW Web Awards Ceremony on Sunday evening, March 15.
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"If a new study is any guide, the color red can make people’s work more accurate, and blue can make people more creative.
In the study, published Thursday on the Web site of the journal Science, researchers at the University of British Columbia conducted tests with 600 people to determine whether cognitive performance v...aried when people saw red or blue. Participants performed tasks with words or images displayed against red, blue or neutral backgrounds on computer screens.
Red groups did better on tests of recall and attention to detail, like remembering words or checking spelling and punctuation. Blue groups did better on tests requiring imagination, like inventing creative uses for a brick or creating toys from shapes."
Cool! Turn your screen to blue when you need to be creative! Blue for fiction, red for science! :-)
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are developing technology to give battlefield medics a helping hand--literally. Howie Choset, an associate professor of robotics at CMU, has engineered a snakelike robotic arm equipped with various sensors that can monitor a soldier's condition. The ro...
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Small cameras can now be embedded in a public video screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long, reminiscent of the science-fiction movie "Minority Report." TruMedia Technologies, the makers of the tracking systems, say the software can determine the viewer's gende...
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The Ethics + Emerging Technologies Group at Cal Poly will release a major report, "Autonomous Military Robots: Risk, Ethics, and Design," Monday, authored by several of its faculty researchers and funded by the US Department of Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR). The 100+ page preliminary report ...
