Link compilation of past month
Lets start with a new search engine called leapfish which claims to be a real time search engine. Which means the database index includes content just a few minutes old from Web 2.0 services like twitter, facebook, blogs, youtube and co.
The project SixthSense by Pranav Mistry is as the website says: a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
In late July this year Parag Khanna has hold a presentation at the TED Global conference about the ‘Invisible Maps‘ of our world. He shows his vision about how to make the honourable dream of a border less world in peace could come true.
The next tip needs not much to explain the film below will do it for every passionate gamer in the world!
This could be a Christmas present for people with the required purse ^^. I am talking about the stylish, ultra-weight and and very expensive electronic motorbike which you can admire in the following spot.
Another two inspiring TED talks I have watched recently are Lewis Pugh swimming at the North Pole and Magnus Larsson’s idea how to turn dunes into architecture to address the threat of desertification.
The Solar Impulse project is about solar powered plane of captain Bertrand Piccard. For me it is almost like a perpetuum mobile, even if that is not quite true it feels like that if you imagine a plane which can fly as long as it gets energy by the sun!
For the musicians under my blog readers this tip will be very exciting, as it shows an guitar combining traditional acoustic values and digital capabilities developed at the MIT Media Lab and called the Chameleon Guitar.
In this paragraph I just want to mention a few more TED talks. Firstly, Zach Kaplan’s and Keith Schacht’s demo of toys from the future. Further on the incredibly dance performance by Pilobolus and the impressive water filter by Michael Pritchard. Finishing, with a talk about architecture I really like by Bjarke Ingels and a solution to get rid of the cable mess with wireless electricity by Eric Giler.
Healthmap is useful mesh up to be aware of what is going on in the world in disease matters.
Within the STELLA project, researchers have been able to develop new technologies to realize stretchable circuit boards as you can see in the following spot showing a dress with illuminating lights.