We are at SXSW this week - check out halfway through - Sphero™ swims.
Twice as fast and more controllable than CES.
Sphero is made by Orbotix™ and will be available late 2011 - reserve yours at gosphero.com.
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GOAB. A TV Experience Concept from Syzygy on Vimeo.
With GOAB we take the latest trends, bring the loose ends together, develop established ideas further and develop new concepts to provide a possible answer to the question: How do we want to watch television in the future? To dig further into the topic, we have identified the following challenges:
via & more http://lab.syzygy.de/en/approach
Konstruct, a new free iPhone app from London-based AR-developer James Alliban, makes creating virtual sculptures as easy as speaking into the phone. The app uses an existing vision tracking system in combination with a printable marker -- a piece of paper with a specific pattern that the software recognizes. You put the marker wherever you want the sculpture to exist, start the app, then speak into your phone's microphone to create 3D objects in the scene. There are different settings for color schemes and shapes. As long as the marker is onscreen, the app allows the user to keep refining the sculpture.
It's not the only AR art app available. If graffiti is more your style, TagDis allows you to become a virtual Banksy, and for those into freehand drawing, the forthcoming Scrawl might be your thing.
"The idea of transforming entire cities into user generated virtual art galleries really appeals to me," says Alliban. "I see Konstruct as an early prototype that will hopefully be realised in this form in the future."
(via http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/04/new-augmented-reality-app-unle.html )
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Sky Path Feature of SkyView App
The feature that I liked the most is “Sky Path”, this particular feature allow users to track the path of any celestial object like Sun or Moon during a 24-hour period. Searching for any particular object will show an arrow that will point to that object on your app screen.
So I guess if you are looking for a star gazing and augmented reality app for your iPhone or iPod Touch then you should definitely grab SkyView. The SkyView app can be downloaded from Apple App store for $0.99 and for users that want to test out a limited version then there is a free version as well.
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via http://socialgeeks.net/starview-an-augmented-reality-based-iphone-app-for-star-gazers.html
