Luciano sent me this link to a stunning multipoint touch installation at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, The Cube at QUT – world’s biggest multitouch installation. I like how they have the touch at ground level, but the screen extends up.
I note that the Cube folk also have a Lego Education Learning Centre. I’m doubly envious.
From Culture Smash an interesting example of West meets Japan, A Truly Bizarre Domino’s Pizza Commercial. This video nicely captures all sorts of phenomena like:
You can download the free Domino’s App here. I plan to try it soon.
Speigel Online has an interesting story about how a Hacker Measures the Internet Illegally with Carna Botnet. The anonymous hacker(s) exploited unprotected devices online to create a botnet with which they then used to take a census of those online.
So what were the actual results of the Internet census? How many IP addresses were there in 2012? “That depends on how you count,” the hacker writes. Some 450 million were “in use and reachable” during his scans. Then there were the firewalled IPs and those with reverse DNS records (which means there are domain names associated with them). In total, this equalled some 1.3 billion IP addresses in use.
The GRAND network has just posted a nice story on the upcoming conference on Japanese Game Studies, see Industry-academic engagement focus of upcoming Japan-Canada game studies symposium. It is nice to have GRAND (a network I am part of) commissioning stories.
I gave a lecture at Kim Solez’s course on the future of medicine and he taped it and put it up on YouTube here:
Geoffrey Rockwell FutureHype LABMP 590 2013 March 7 – YouTube.
This talk came out of a conversation we had at a pub about Ray Kurzweil where I disagreed with Kim about Kurzweil’s predictions. Thinking about Kurzweil I realized how fundamental prediction is. We call it hope. It is easy to make fun of the futurists, but we need to recognize how we always look forward to the near future.