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A photographer's workflow for the iPad | Accessories | Digital Photo | Macworld
by Derrick Story , Macworld.com Jun 9, 2010 4:45 pm The iPad might not be the final destination for your images, but with Apple's Camera Connection Kit, it can be a great stop along the way. You can preview your photos on its large screen, build dynamic presentations with them in Keynote while you sip coffee at a cafe, or publish your favorite pictures online—all without cracking open a laptop. For photographers, the more internal memory your iPad has, the better.
HP unveils its official iPad rival called the TouchPad | Gadgetell
HP has finally announced its upcoming tablet PC aka official iPad rival – the HP TouchPad. From its name alone, you can already deduce the fact that HP is certainly gearing up their tablet device as an iPad competitor. From specs to appearance, there’s no denying that HP did its homework and made sure that it will be coming out with a nice tablet device worthy of a space in the ever expanding tablet market. But the question is, does the HP TouchPad has what it takes to compete not only against the iPad but also against the Android tablets?
I gave a presentation recently at UK Museums on the Web entitled “The Intertubes Everywhere”. It was a re-working of my Ignite Cardiff talk, with a gentle angle towards cultural heritage. Here are the slides: The one-liner for those that don’t have the time to go through the slides is something like this: I believe that although mobile has been held up as THE NEXT BIG THING for some time, we are reaching a kind of “perfect storm” of conditions where it is at last becoming a viable reality for many users and therefore something for institutions to think about, too.
What’s so great about mobile? « electronic museum
Cabinet of Wonders – The Getty Iris
The Augsburg Display Cabinet —the Getty Museum’s 17th-century “cabinet of curiosities” on display starting tomorrow in our New Galleries for Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Decorative Arts —is both a work of art and an early prototype of museums. With dozens of compartments to store collectibles, this remarkable object unfolds in myriad ways to reveal surprising treats for the eye. Like a museum, it was used to store, organize, and display a prized collection of works of art and natural objects. By opening its many doors and drawers, the original owner could embark on a labyrinth-like journey, admiring tiny oil paintings, wood carvings, and precious inlaid materials decorating its surfaces—much like the voyage of exploration and discovery experienced in a museum visit.Where's the Mobile Museum Project for Intact Social Groups?
When a technologist calls me to talk about their brilliant idea for a museum-related business, it's always a mobile application. There are lots of wonderful (and probably not very high margin) experiments going on in museums with mobile devices. But the vast majority of these companies and tinkerers make the same mistake: they focus on individual users.
In many museums, visitors are asked to silence and stow their cell phones when entering the galleries. But that’s not the case at the Brooklyn Museum, one of the nation’s largest art museums. In fact, visitors are encouraged to use their Web-enabled cell phones to explore the galleries with the help of BklynMuse, a new application designed especially for smartphones that lets visitors get on-the-spot recommendations and see what exhibits others are enjoying. “Our mission is about accessibility and community,” explains Shelley Bernstein, the museum’s chief of technology.
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Home for the open-source release of the Brooklyn Museum Mobile Collection iPhone application. Originally developed by Adam Shackelford, using the Brooklyn Museum's API.ImmersiveTech
Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock (and assuming your rock doesn’t have WiFi access) just knows. The news of Steve Job’s passing has exploded across the internet with tribute videos, old video viewings, and news blasts in the form of tweets, posts, and updates at an all time high. With one of the most poignant and impactful memorials ever created for… ANYONE on Apple’s homepage , the news hit the tech and consumer world with an impact that exceeded that of The King of Pop’s recent passing. But not to embark on an Apples to oranges argument, the influence of Apple Computers has had, in the tech consumer world, been undeniably profound with Steve Jobs at the forefront.
If it seems like forever and a day since Notion Ink first introduced a prototype for its upcoming Adam tablet in January, that’s probably because the company keeps reminding us that it’s on the way… but not quite ready for purchase yet. In part 9 of a weekend blog series , Notion Ink founder Rohan Shravan is sharing a few more interesting details. The company has also put together a teaser video showing the weather widget, and another video showing the startup animation you’ll see when you turn on the Adam tablet. You can check out both videos after the break.
Notion Ink shows off Adam tablet’s scratch-resistant display, startup animation
Nice. But the real potential of Kinect is being demonstrated by others. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich in Germany, for example, used Kinect to build a "virtual X-ray" prototype . The system takes CT scan images and uses them to simulate the experience of looking at a "magic mirror" that shows you your bones, organs and other innards. A Kinect-based "magic mirror" that lets you try on virtual clothes in your own home while shopping online is nothing less than inevitable, and could eliminate the need for clothing stores.
Why Kinect Is Microsoft's 'iPhone' — Datamation.com
A number of built-in features, tools, and add-ons are helping to propel Apple's iPad into the classroom. Technology analyst Denise Harrison looks at the benefits of iPad in education and predicts some unanticipated applications Tablet devices are hardly new; Apple's own Newton , introduced in 1987, could fairly be called an ancestor to the iPad with its tablet form, tethered pen touch interface, and easy portability. Even though other manufacturers marketed tablets based on the Newton operating system, for a variety of reasons unrelated to the quality of the technology, the Newton never made it past the left side of the adoption bell curve.