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“By turns a medical thriller, detective story and paean to city life, Johnson's account of the outbreak and its modern implications is a true page turner.” - The Washington Post
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson | Online Resources
Envisioning the future of technology — by Michell Zappa
What is the visualization? Understanding where technology is heading is more than guesswork. Looking at emerging trends and research, one can predict and draw conclusions about how the technological sphere is developing, and which technologies should become mainstream in the coming years.
A simpler route to invisibility
Two years ago researchers at Duke University in the US unveiled the first "invisibility cloak" — a device that can make objects vanish from sight, at least when viewed using a narrow band of microwave frequencies.Tired of craning your neck to read? Carrying multiple glasses?
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Trufocals - MoreInspiration
As simple as TruFocals are to use, their technology is very sophisticated. Each"lens" is actually a set of two lenses, one flexible and one firm.Kinect-like camera interface for taking self-portraits - MoreInspiration
While digital cameras have made it easier to take self-portraits thanks to the inclusion of self-timers, face, smile and motion detection, and the positioning of displays on the front of the camera - as seen with Samsung's DualView camera - changing the framing or altering settings still requires the user to run back to the camera itself to get things right. Now researchers at the University of Tsukuba's Department of Computer Science in Japan have developed technology that lets shutterbugs put themselves in the picture and snap a pic using Kinect-like hand gestures.
Pixel Curse | Visual inspiration for creative professional
HTML5 is the proposed next major revision of HTML. Although the HTML5 specification is an ongoing work, and not all browsers support HTML5, there are already sites using HTML5 right now. In this post, we will feature some great sites using html5 markup, with aims to help web designers and developers of how to implement...