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Eight Great Explosions in Video

On 01/12/2011, in A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, digital video, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, learning spaces, smart classrooms, technologies for your home, the downsides of how people use tech, by Daniel Christian

Eight Great Explosions in Video — from futurist Thomas Frey

Excerpt:

Video is set to go through an explosive growth phase. The coming years of video development will be defined by what I call the eight great explosions.

1. Explosion of Television Apps

2. Explosion of Video Capture Devices

3. Explosion of Video Display Surfaces

4. Explosion of Video Projection Systems

5. Explosion of Video Content

6. Explosion of Holography

7. Explosion of Video Gaming

8. Explosion of Video Bandwidth and Storage

Final Thoughts
Not everything in the video world will be positive. Today the average child who turns 18 has witnessed over 200,000 violent acts on television. Every year the average child is bombarded with over 20,000 thirty second commercials. And the 1,680 minutes each day that the average child spends in front of their TV is making them increasingly fat, lazy, and prone to disease.

On one hand, television is the great educator, the center of modern culture, and a pipeline into everything happening around us. But at the same time, it is sucking up our time, infringing on our relationships, and keeping us from doing meaningful work.

Television is at once both a massive problem and a massive solution. However, as a medium, television has the capability of solving the problems it creates.

Tagged with: A/V • convergence • digital video • emerging technologies • future • games • holography • innovation • learning spaces • smart classrooms • technologies for the home • the downsides of technology • TV

Needed — new ways of presenting/collaborating with visual information

On 01/07/2011, in A/V -- audio/visual, education technology, emerging technologies, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interactivity, learning spaces, presentations, smart classrooms, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Or perhaps something expanded on this vision:

Tagged with: A/V • educational technology • emerging technologies • human-computer interaction (HCI) • innovation • interactive whiteboards • interactivity • learning spaces • presentations • smart classrooms • videoconferencing • web-based collaboration

Why can’t more devices do this type of thing? Smart classrooms would benefit.

On 01/05/2011, in learning spaces, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

Beo6 remote control — from Bang & Olufsen (with emphasis below from DSC)

Navigate the seas of complexity
Now you can have touch-screen control of your TV, films, music and more – right in the palm of your hand. Beo6 knows which devices you own and presents just the relevant menus and controls on its intelligent hardened glass screen. You get all the visual feedback you need, without obstructing everyone’s view of the big screen. Menus are copied to the screen on the remote and even station logos appear here, eliminating the need to remember all those numbers. Link rooms are controlled by means of Zones, e.g. the living room or kitchen zone, so you are always sure to have access to the right products and functions in each room.

The functions that are common for several devices – like menu navigation buttons and the famous Bang & Olufsen sound volume wheel – have dedicated tactile buttons within easy reach on the aluminium ball that forms the lower half of Beo6. The two parts of the remote control complement each other to combine simplicity of operation with choice and flexibility of features. In a day and age when On and Off, Play and Stop are just not enough any more, it is good that someone is cutting through the complexity.

From DSC:
We are using some media controllers from Crestron that offer some of this functionality; but they are expensive and require a great deal of expertise to setup/reconfigure.

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Interesting concept! For future smart classrooms? For trade-shows? For public bulletin boards.

On 12/27/2010, in creativity, education technology, innovation, learning spaces, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

— from Tuvie.com

Also see:

http://www.red-dot.sg/concept/porfolio/o_e/IC/R139.htm

From DSC:
What if you could take your iPhone and aim it at a particular area of a “board” and then download that piece of information? As easily as when iPhones trade contact info via “bumping”, one could quickly obtain a piece of information on a bulletin board.

Tagged with: creativity • educational technology • innovation • learning spaces • smart classrooms • sustainability

How Steelcase redesigned the 21st century college classroom

On 12/22/2010, in learning spaces, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

How Steelcase redesigned the 21st century college classroom — from fastcodesign.com

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Keeping an eye on wireless electricity for Smart Classrooms

On 12/21/2010, in emerging technologies, learning spaces, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
I’m keeping a pulse check on this for now…not necessarily supporting this yet.

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MultiTouch Ltd. develops first multitouch Twitter Wall [relates to future Smart Classrooms]

On 12/13/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, emerging technologies, Europe, learning spaces, multi-touch, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

MultiTouch Ltd. develops first multitouch Twitter Wall

MultiTouch to Produce Official 2011 International CES Twitter Wall; Visual, Moving Twitter Spheres Display Tweets in Real Time; Users Can Access Photos; Positional Speakers Deliver High-Quality Audio

FOR RELEASE ON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2010

HELSINKI –MultiTouch, Ltd., developer of the world’s first modular multi-touch LCD screen for large-scale displays, today announced the release of the industry’s first large-scale multitouch, multi-user Twitter wall application. The MultiTouch Twitter Wall consists of at least six MultiTouch Cell 46 Advanced displays, 46 inches wide, in a 3 x 2 (three long, two high) configuration that visually displays tweets from selected hashtags and keywords. Users of the MultiTouch Twitter Wall can open tweets, represented on a rotating sphere, by touching a profile image and moving, or resizing, the tweet on the display. The MultiTouch Twitter Wall offers alternate views on the spheres that enable images from Flickr to be displayed, searchable with a keyword, as well. Using Panphonics Sound Shower® directional loudspeakers, the MultiTouch Twitter Wall can further engage users with positional audio from tweets and other content displayed.

MultiTouch will produce the Official 2011 International CES Twitter Wall in Las Vegas, January 6-9, in the North Hall lobby of the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), which will incorporate Twitter feeds from CES – including the official #CES tag – as well as 2011 CES news from show attendees, bloggers, and exhibitors, and will curate stills and video content from the show as well. Photos and videos of the MultiTouch Twitter Wall are available, respectively, at http://multitouch.fi/about-2/photos/ and http://multitouch.fi/about-2/videos/.

Tagged with: A/V • emerging technologies • Europe • learning spaces • multi-touch • smart classrooms

How might some of this apply to the “chalkboards of the future”?

On 12/10/2010, in digital textbooks, game-changing environment, innovation, learning spaces, new business models, new media literacies, publishing, smart classrooms, textbooks, by Daniel Christian

— from Touch User Interface

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From DSC: This is where the “chalkboards of the future” are (or should be) heading…

On 11/29/2010, in Daniel S. Christian, education technology, future, higher education, K-12 related, learning spaces, smart classrooms, web-based collaboration, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Surface computers linked via internet allow for new ‘mixed-presence’ collaboration — from ZDNet.com By Chris Jablonski

Researchers at Purdue and the University of Manitoba (in Canada) have developed software that enables users to use tabletop-sized touch displays to analyze complex datasets interactively over the Internet for business and homeland security applications.

The team created a software framework called Hugin that allows for more than one display to connect and share the same space over the Internet. They describe it as a “novel layer-based graphical framework for mixed-presence synchronous collaborative visualization over digital tabletop displays.”

The large displays of surface computers like the one Microsoft introduced in 2007 already allow for multi-user collaboration, but until now, they haven’t been connected for over the internet for mixed-presence interaction.

Tagged with: corporate training / universities • Daniel S. Christian • educational technology • higher education • K-12 • learning spaces • smart classrooms • training • web-based collaboration • workplace

The “21st Century Classroom” Finalists

On 11/10/2010, in 21st century, learning spaces, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

Also see:
Modernizing the American Classroom — at Digitized.com by David Pierce

Slate is holding a contest to redesign and modernize the American classroom. A ton of interesting ideas have come out, and they’ve whittled the submissions to the Top 10. All are incredibly smart, and most involve a lot of integrated and intelligent technology.

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