Posts tagged iPad
Simpler is better…
Here is a fun fact that I read on the back of my Cosmonaut’s packaging - great product, by the way. It’s probably a joke, or some kind of urban myth… anyway I just love it!
That goes something like this:
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface, and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 degrees Celsius.
The Russians used a pencil.
One must ponder…
Probably the neatest app available on the AppStore!! Makes you wanna become an artist…
(via georgp)
Introducing Note Slate…
…the upcoming (note-focused) tablet featuring a 13” E ink screen, up to 180 hours of autonomy in use (this is huge !!!), usb port, built-in wifi and saving/sharing functionalities… comes in Junes from $100 in black or white. Pretty sexy isn’t it ?!
More info : NoteSlate.com
Face Tracking Perspective on the iPad
Quote from the creators : Jeremie Francone, Laurence Nigay
Head-Coupled Perspective on Mobile Devices. We track the head of the user with the front facing camera in order to create a glasses-free monocular 3D display. Such spatially-aware mobile display enables to improve the possibilities of interaction.
It does not use the accelerometers and relies only on the front camera.
The demo with the targets has been inspired by the work of Johnny Lee (http://youtu.be/Jd3-eiid-Uw ) with a Wii remote.
Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, EHCI Research Group
http://iihm.imag.fr/en/
