Tag Archives: Academic

Aurasma vs. Blippar

By Tom Saunter | Published: November 1, 2012

I’ve written about Augmented Reality extensively in the past, but since the days of immersing myself in the purely theoretical potential for the medium, a few key players have rooted themselves in a very commercial reality that is now powering the fledgling industry. And while B2B-focused vendors such as ViewAR remain behind the scenes, the […]

Posted in Advertising, Technology | Also tagged Advertising, augmented reality, Aurasma, autonomy, Autonomy Corporation, Blippar, business, campaign, commercial, companies, core business, creative, fledgling industry, found, free, future, hardware, Hewlett-Packard, HP, install, medium, Mobile, mobile chipset, open, open source, open source software, pattern recognition systems, potential, power, products, provocations, qualcomm, reading, reality, research, software, technological power, users, viewar | 13 Responses

Cinemetrics: Interactive Movie Infographics

By Tom Saunter | Published: August 18, 2011

Cinemetrics is the fascinating result of Frederic Brodbeck‘s bachelor graduation project at The Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands. As a graphic designer, Brodbeck is drawn to particular style details, but as a generative coder he’s interested in exploring the role for graphic design in analysing these same details. He picked the medium of film as […]

Posted in Design, Film | Also tagged art, barcode, data, Design, digital, Film, films, github, graphic, graphics, imdb, information, interactive, interesting, motion, movie, movies, popular, set, speech, transform, trends, users | Leave a comment

The Second Uncanny Valley

By Tom Saunter | Published: June 23, 2011

A few weeks ago I wrote about the new Tintin movie in the context of the Uncanny Valley (read my article here). While searching around for a clear diagram illustrating the principle, I stumbled upon an article called The Second Uncanny Valley on a site called Open the Future, which features a load of really interesting stuff […]

Posted in The Future | Also tagged climate science, cyborg, emerging tech, ethics, future, geoengineering, open source, posthuman, renewables, robot, social networks, tintin, transhumanism | Leave a comment

Experts Predict The Next Decade In Mobile

By Tom Saunter | Published: January 11, 2010

Rudy de Waele has been a busy man. He’s curated 37 of the world’s most notable voices from Mobile & Academia for inclusion in his Mobile Trends 2020 slide deck – a collection of thoughts on where we’ll all be this time next decade: “I asked some of my personal heroes in mobile to write […]

Posted in Mobile, The Future | Also tagged artificial intelligence, business, commerce, data, decade, device, expert, innovation, list, Mobile, powerpoint, presentation, slide deck, slideshare, The Future Of..., thinking, trends, voice | 2 Responses

On the Potential for Branded Robots

By Tom Saunter | Published: January 7, 2010

Last year I wrote about these awesome fighting robots from Japan, where I asked this question: “I am very interested in at least progressing research into the potential for branded robotics, androids & cybernetics if any readers have thoughts?” I received an equally awesome response from one Pius Agius, who challenged me on my Western predilection […]

Posted in Technology | Also tagged android, artificial intelligence, brain, brand, cambridge, company, cybernetic, Design, development, Gaming, industry, interactive, japan, network, neurology, play, potential, research, richard dawkins, robot, social network, society, steve grand, technology, The Future, thinking, virtual | 11 Responses