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I want to applause with four hands that I don't have the speaker in this video. Dennis Wixon (Microsoft Surface) brings in this video an approach to predicting the future of any technology. His field of expertise is Human Machine Interaction, but the scientific approach he uses to foresee the coming technologies is really universal. Select a field, look deeply at the evolutions in the past that brought to the the ...

How cool is this?  A very progressive type of art, not surprisingly coming straight from Germany: LichtFaktor, a group of artists that became famous for their light grafittis. I love the concept, very innovative. Finally a solution to keep the good things of graffiti without being out the law and troublesome, nor buying paint. Besides, the 3D aspect and light effect just makes it a lot nicer than even the best paint-on-wall grafitti. More technically speaking, ...

Around year 2000, I had tested AT&T Natural Voices and was quite surprised out of the quality of the results that it can yield. But Acapela seems to be giving AT&T quite a hard time (provided that it's not in fact the same project). It becomes now very hard to figure out whether some speech is generated or actually recorded from a real voice. For you to compare: Sample A: ...

After having a feel that ONLINE DESKTOPS would be the desktops of the future, I am forwarding today a list of what is seen at the top online desktops of the moment. Go Web 2.0 ! http://rangit.com/operating-systems/online-web-based-desktop-os-operating-system-webos/

L'USB, c'est beau. http://www.dialog05.com/main.html#

Je pense avoir trouve une perle rare : le top ou presque de ce qui se fait actuellement en termes d'animation du visage en 3D, a partir de moyens basiques, et avec un resultat tres rapide. C'est l'entreprise Image Metrics qui sous-traite pour les meilleurs boites de jeux videos et autres fournisseurs de contenus animes 3D. Voici leur site avec une video de presentation pour le moins epoustouflante !

http://www.generation-nt.com/youtube-royaume-uni-partner-programme-remuneration-revenus-publicite-video-actualite-67578.html

Le stitching est l'art de composer un panorama a partir de plusieurs cliches pris en pivotant sur soi. Voici un superbe logiciel que m'a montre Benoit Mortgat, et avec lequel on a obtenu d'excellents resultats : http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

Un site excellent, qui informe des nouveautes en terme de reseaux sociaux sur le net (du type Facebook, MySpace et autres) http://mashable.com/