Imagine spending your vacation in the Swiss Alps. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could share these pictures among your friends in a easy and cool way? Imagine a big touch table where you can show around your pictures, manipulate, zoom them and pass them on to other users. Well, this has now become possible …
Monthly Archive: August 2010
Aug
10
John Underkoffler Points to the Future of UI
In the video above, John Underkoffler talks to enthusiasts at TED about the need to move away from the traditional, one machine for one human with one mouse and one screen flat display, to building machines that aid humans in the task of creation in multiple dimensions. He has taken a big step in this …
Aug
05
UNH KEEPERS Camp
Recently, Devin, Carol, and I helped with the UNH KEEPERS Camp “Biomedical Engineering” Day. The children were able to have tours of Professor Wayne Smith’s lab, build simple parallel and series circuits, and create their own “Operation”-style board games. The picture below is of me and a student displaying his “Operation” game. It was great …
Aug
05
Keepers Summer Camp at Project54
Project54 assisted with two sections of KEEPERS summer camp. It turned out to be a great way for the second to fifth grade students to explore electrical and computer engineering. Mark gave tours to groups of the students of a Project54 lab and a police cruiser. While he did that, Erika, Devin and I helped the …
Aug
03
A Written Contact Card vs. the Project54 Mobile Software
One of the current projects in development here at CATLab is the Project54 mobile software for the Dover Police Mounted Patrol Unit. Combined with the Motorola Symbol MC5574, our Project54 mobile software allows the mounted officers to fill out their required contact cards quicker and more efficiently than writing the information on the card directly. …