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Putting standard concept of computers aside, researches at the Human Media Laboratory at Queen's University in Canada are developing non-planar" devices: computers that can change shape while using three-dimensional and touch-driven interfaces.

Putting standard concept of computers aside, researches at the Human Media Laboratory at Queen's University in Canada are developing non-planar" devices: computers that can change shape while using three-dimensional and touch-driven interfaces.

The online encyclopedia is only a taste of what's to come.

Web 2.0--the dream of the user-built, user-centered, user-run Internet--has delivered on just about every promise except profit. Will its most prominent example, social networking, ever make any money? *But It Might Be Soon.

We asked technology innovators, luminaries, and users what the Web might be in five to ten years.

presentation on success of "social objects"

The UK Government wants to hear ideas for new products that could improve way public information is communicated... £20,000 prize fund. making available gigabytes of new or previously invisible public information for people to use in this competition.

The UK Government wants to hear ideas for new products that could improve way public information is communicated... £20,000 prize fund. making available gigabytes of new or previously invisible public information for people to use in this competition.

Facts and opinions on Twitter and the Twitosphere

Optus has announced comprehensive plans for the upcoming 3G iPhone in Australia including an option to buy the handset outright on a pre-paid basis.

the only thing that can kill Twitter is Twitter itself. If the service keeps failing, people will leave not out of choice, but out of necessity. I don’t think that is going to happen because I think Twitter will right its ship before we get to that poin

the only thing that can kill Twitter is Twitter itself. If the service keeps failing, people will leave not out of choice, but out of necessity. I don’t think that is going to happen because I think Twitter will right its ship before we get to that poin

The future of mobile phones is perhaps… not a mobile phone at all, but rather a contextually aware and active mobile magic wand.

the vast new open network that cloud computing is billowing up makes the open-one-web a stunning opportunity to deliver and optimize open knowledge to billions of people.

the vast new open network that cloud computing is billowing up makes the open-one-web a stunning opportunity to deliver and optimize open knowledge to billions of people.

Quitting Twitter is about as hard as quitting smoking for a variety of reasons. Here are mine.

Quitting Twitter is about as hard as quitting smoking for a variety of reasons. Here are mine.

Has the sheen worn off Starbucks for you, and if so, what did it?

BONDI will define what interfaces developers need to access when writing apps that tap into more sensitive functions on the mobile device.

How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.

How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.

is a dynamically generated graphic novel built on the Facebook platform. The work assembles a stream of images from Flickr that match certain tags and dynamically mixes them with original text in order to produce a perpetually changing narrative.

is a dynamically generated graphic novel built on the Facebook platform. The work assembles a stream of images from Flickr that match certain tags and dynamically mixes them with original text in order to produce a perpetually changing narrative.

The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distorsion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or chronotopic anamorphosis.

Since you’re reading this blog, you’re at least somewhat familiar with social media . The ebooks and white papers we’ve gathered here should be a great start.

Since you’re reading this blog, you’re at least somewhat familiar with social media . The ebooks and white papers we’ve gathered here should be a great start.

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News Knitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data. News Knitter converts information gathered from the daily political news into clothing.