AnatOnMe projects patients’ insides onto their outsides — from gizmag.com by Paul Ridden

Excerpt:

A team at Microsoft’s research wing has developed a working prototype of a system that may help to encourage physical injury sufferers to do their exercises by giving them a clearer understanding of what’s going on. A therapist would use the device to project a series of graphics of underlying bone, muscle tissue, tendons or nerves directly onto the body of a patient to help explain the nature of the injury and prescribe effective treatment. The device can also take photos during a consultation, which can be subsequently reviewed or printed out as a memory aid for the patient.

 

 

 

 

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echalk — from www.echalk.de

 


From DSC:
I’m looking for a technology that can capture 20 feet worth of “chalkboard” for longer mathematical problems and solutions and equations. How can we capture that?

Perhaps I’m not thinking clearly, but tablets don’t seem nearly large enough to fit these types of work on them in their entirety. Document cameras are another potential option, but again, the writing surface is too small. That goes for PolyVision’s Eno Board, Smart’s Interactive Whiteboards, BrightLink Projectors from Epson and other similar products.

That’s why E-Chalk caught my attention.

I’m trying to free up students’ minds — to allow them to be cognitively engaged with — and present with — the content being discussed (vs. having to madly write down the equations before the professor erases the board). I want them to walk away with such writings on a device and/or accessible somewhere on the cloud.



 

E-chalk is more than a traditional chalkboard because it integrates multimedia elements:

  • Pictures can be directly retrieved from the Internet or from the local computer.
  • Mathematical functions can be plotted.
  • Mathematical expressions can be evaluated on the fly via handwriting recognition.
  • Interactive web services (CGI scripts) can be integrated in the lecture.

 

E-Kreide Vorlesung

 

In a class room

 

CloudTV app platform to take spotlight on two panels at The TV of Tomorrow Show — activevideo.com

 

 

SAN JOSE, CA (May 16, 2011) — Millions of screens today — and millions more by year’s end — will be available to TV app developers and content providers, according to remarks planned by ActiveVideo Networks™ executives for the TV of Tomorrow Show May 17 and 18 in San Francisco.

During the two-day conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ActiveVideo executives will speak on the “write once, deploy everywhere” merits of cloud-based application creation and delivery on a pair of panels. John Callahan, CTO, will discuss “The Emerging Primacy of the App: The ‘Appification’ of TV and its Implications,” scheduled for Tuesday, May 17, from 3:15 to 4:15 pm; and Michael Taylor, senior vice president, business development will talk about “Envisioning Cable’s Converged Future,” on Wednesday, May 18, from 4:00 to 5:15 pm. The two executives will be joined on the panels by counterparts from PlayJam, Movl, Rovi, NDS, Ooyala, ZeeVee and other companies.

 

Spoke Diagram

 

12 fabulous Flip Camera alternatives for education — from 21centuryedtech.wordpress.com by Michael Gormans

Softkinetic’s Corporate Video

 

 

Softkinetic corporate video

…and some other intriguing concepts.

 

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What happens when sixth sense meets an iPad?– from labnol.org

Excerpt:
Zach King, a film student from LA, has created this neat video where the iPad screen is projected in the form of a hologram and users can interact with the various apps using natural hand gestures. Futuristic but not impossible.

 

ipad hologram

 

From DSC:
What a creative way to help people visualize your concept and to help bring your vision to a format that others can understand and work with! Great work on the digital video editing Zach!

 

 

An antidote to the digital zoom — from JISC Digital Media by Nigel Goldsmith

 

Clip on lens for iPhone

 

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MyTVBuddy kicks off as the first pan-European Social TV app on iPad — from appmarket.tv (emphasis DSC)

Excerpt:

Today E-ZONE unveiled its iPad app MyTVBuddy claiming it takes Social TV to the next level of exploration, interaction, engagement and participation by letting users check in to TV programs, watch videos, post messages on Facebook, share Twitter messages, participate in conversations  and see where other users are located. MyTVBuddy kicks off with a special launch edition of Eurovision 2011.

MyTVBuddy comes with a solution for turning TV viewing into a social experience by using mobile devices such as the iPad. According to a recent study from Yahoo, nearly 90 percent of people watching television are using a mobile device at the same time. Be it Twitter, Facebook, email or instant messaging, they are doing more than just watching.

 

From DSC:
TV and entertainment coming up to bat — with learning-related applications on deck!   🙂

 

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Addendum on 5/11/11:

TV 3.0

 

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From DSC:
Check out the topics:

  • Pay-TV in the Connected World
  • Making Apps Part of the TV Experience
  • Meeting Higher Quality Expectations
  • Connecting Broadcasters and Audiences
  • Making Subscription TV Work on Multiple Screens
  • Content Discovery Becomes Business Critical
  • The Impact of Connected TV Standards
  • CE Strategies Including Co-Opetition
  • What Connected TV Means For IPTV

 

 

Setting up a library iPad program — from College & Research Libraries by Sara Q. Thompson
Guidelines for success

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Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book (filmed March 2011)


TED: Mike Matas -- Next Generation Digital Book - filmed March 2011

 

About this talk
Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore’s sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth.”

About Mike Matas
While at Apple, Mike Matas helped write the user interface for the iPhone and iPad. Now with Push Pop Press, he’s helping to rewrite the electronic book.

 

The future of television: Why you won’t recognize your television just a few years from now — from iptvmagazine.com by Scott Puopolo, Cisco

Excerpt:

Imagine you are watching a program on your refrigerator. You browse through the program choices using hand gestures. When you walk into the bathroom, the display of your program automatically transfers to the display inside the bathroom mirror.

Does this seem farfetched? All of these capabilities are here now and research gathered by the Cisco “Internet Business Solutions Group” (IBSG) from manufacturers, content producers, service broadcasters and academic experts identifies amazing predictions of what is going to happen in the TV industry and when these changes are likely to occur.

Analysis of the research shows that the three main influences to these events happening include technology, consumer behavior and business models. Multiple supporting technologies have emerged including displays (digital paper and projection devices), ultra-high bandwidth connections and new types of human interfaces (sensory devices). The ways consumers discover and consume media are changing including using social networks (Digg) and on demand content (YouTube), and participating in the creation of TV programs. Business models are changing from pushing a limited number of linear based channels to aggregating many content sources (NetFlix), recommending relevant programs, and adapting media for specific viewers (personalized ads on Facebook). Using this information, the IBSG has identified 10 Predictions for the future of TV.

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