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Will our gadgets ever really converge?

Yo dawg, I heard you like e-mail, so we put e-mail on your Macbook, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, so you can e-mail while you e-mail! Substitute the word e-mail with, music, movies, chat, e-reading, calling and video recording,...

By Cendy Calis on 10/17/10 Comments Off

Come Out and Play Festival

On September the 28th and 29th Amsterdam will be transformed into a huge playground. A wide variety of big urban games will take place in the city……You may choose to take virtual penalties with your cell phone, play Snake...

By Roman Tol on 09/14/07 4

Damn Small Linux – Linux on a USB stick

This article (that is in Dutch) explains how you can turn your own USB stick into a linux mini desktop. It has a step by step plan to place a small programme, called DSL on your USB stick, so...

By Heleen on 01/02/07 1

Smart Clothes: the hug shirt

The Hug Shirt has been nominated as one of the best Inventions of 2006 by Time Magazine! How does it work? The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned...

By Heleen on 12/30/06 Comments Off

interesting locative media websites

I have found a couple of interesting locative media websites/ articles/ blogs: These involve geotracing: http://www.geotracing.com/ http://beta.plazes.com/locate/mobile.php http://www.n8spel.nl/ Location based mobile phone games (pervasive gaming): http://www.in-duce.net/archives/locationbased_mobile_phone_games.php#more http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/ http://www.pervasive-gaming.org/index_swf.html Article about botfighters, a mobile (location based) multi user game (/pervasive...

By Heleen on 12/05/06 Comments Off

Microsoft Live Labs’ new killer ap!

You should really check out Photosynth, a new piece of software which creates 3d models using regular 2d photos of a certain object, for instance San Marco square in Venice. No I’m not biased! ;-) This thing really rocks…...

By Jeff van Schie on 11/30/06 8