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Prezi is a service for creating presentations online. These are a little bit different as you know from usually presentations like Powerpoint. The main idea is that you have a big map and in the presentation you navigate through this map. But check out yourself in the short tutorial.

The movie HOME is a free of copyright documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The intention of the author is to change the way we see the world. The movie embraces the major ecological issues that confront us and shows how everything on our planet is interconnected. The movie will be distributed in 87 countries and will be translated into at least 14 languages.

Some days ago the new service Wolfram|Alpha launched. It’s a gorgeous service especially in things of mathematics and statistics. The Firefox Add-on “Wolfram Alpha Google” combines the Google and Wolfram|Alpha search to one search.

The German Frauenhofer Institute has developed data glasses (also known as Head-mounted display) you might know from secret agents in movies. But this isn’t brandnew, new is that these glasses are interactive. This means you can control the displayed data with controlled eye motions, which are detected by an integrated eye-tracker. Maybe this will be the future newspaper, at least for wearer of glasses.

If your are a friend of quick references you will love this site Quick Reference Cards.

If you want to create simple flash animations like my one here, take a look on the site of the simple Java open source software Draw SWF.

I talk about augmented reality, with this technique the real world can be enriched through virtual objects blended in real time into the camera stream of the real world. This makes so many things possible for instance shopping with information about the products, navigation with information about the area or new kinds of games and so many other things.

In my last post I have written about a software to control the PC with only one web cam, but if you want to input data in a form like text you would need the old keyboard, but there is an alternative that is interesting what if you use sign language as input method? This might be even faster than using a keyboard. Another benefit is you are able to communicate with deaf or mute persons of course under the condition both know the same dialect of sign language.

This video shows you a demo of a new software to control the PC only with a webcam. In difference to other applications for example like the Wii, you don’t need anymore devices except a webcam. But satisfy yourself.

A friend of mine has send me a link to this Japanese Manga comic Ubunchu, witch is about the Linux distribution Ubuntu. It’s available in various languages. The short and nice story is about three students getting into Ubuntu. Enjoy reading it!