A friend of mine has recently linked me to this interesting multi-touch video (see below). The video depicts a multi-touch project done by Felipe Gomes, an intern at Mozilla who has integrated Windows 7′s multi-touch features with Mozilla’s Firefox web browser. Also, if you haven’t done so already, take a look at some of the …
Monthly Archive: August 2009
Aug
13
Summer internship at MERL
This summer I have had a great opportunity to be an intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in Cambridge, MA. This is not only a great prospect for my professional career, but also a chance to experience how working in a real company looks like. MERL is a daughter company of the Mitsubishi Electric …
Aug
12
Microsoft's Vision
Microsoft is either loved or hated by most of society these days. But no matter where you stand on the company, you have to agree that the vision they show in the video below is amazing, and displays great contributions to society. The video is an envisioned future of 2019, just ten years ahead. It’s …
Aug
11
Home Automation Using Twitter
Here is an interesting design on home automation using Twitter from http://matthewmorey.com/. The setup utilizes Twitter to communicate with a variety of electronic devices. There is a computer with access to Twitter that looks at the Tweets and parses them looking for commands. Attached to the computer are different types of devices such as an …
Aug
10
Eliminating Standby Power Consumption
Both Rohm and NEC are focused on unveiling new chip designs for integrated circuits that would consume no standby power. Integrated circuits are briefly inactive in between cycles on chips, and the new chip designs take into account that not all parts of the circuit require constantly receiving full power. In an attempt to curtail …
Aug
04
Towards Storytelling with Geotagged Photos on a Multitouch Display
For the majority summer, the bulk of my work on the multi-touch table has been working with Ankit and Oskar on the Google Earth application, in which we have overlayed geotagged photos with additional orientation data as 3-D models. We have added the ability to control the Google Earth application with the multi-touch table using …