NetGenEd 2011

GestureTek’s award-winning Illuminate Multi-Touch Table is a user-friendly surface computing technology offered in nearly any shape or size to suit any requirement.  The turnkey multi-touch screen display stands 36" high, with a 30, 40 or 55” diagonal gesture-controlled screen, powerful multi-touch computer, projector, camera and speakers. 

It does say that the physical paper textbook we know and love is not going to disappear overnight, but that now, more than ever, e-textbooks are poised to make a permanent push into the classroom.

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By placing physical project cards on an interactive surface, the visitors can explore an organic network of projects, people and media.

For Red Bull, Circ.us created a mobile gaming app for the iPhone that allows people to create their own race track by arranging and photographing Red bull cans.

That arrangement then becomes the shape of the race track in the game.

The work succeeds on two fronts. It offers up a free and customizable mobile game and it gets people to buy Red Bull in order to make the game possible. Fun + Sales = Win.

After years of research and proselytizing, the proponents of digital game-based learning (DGBL) have been caught unaware. Like the person who is still yelling after the sudden cessation of loud music at a party, DGBL proponents have been shouting to be heard above the prejudice against games. But now, unexpectedly, we have everyone's attention. The combined weight of three factors has resulted in widespread public interest in games as learning tools.

After about six months of research and programming for his master's thesis, Georg Hackenberg at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology has managed to create what he and his colleagues are calling a 3-D noncontact gesture-based computer interface. "A special image analysis algorithm filters out the positions of the hands and fingers," Hackenberg said. "This is achieved in real-time through the use of intelligent filtering of the incoming data. The raw data can be viewed as a kind of 3-D mountain landscape, with the peak regions representing the hands or fingers." Hackenberg, who is based at the institute just outside of Bonn, said that the system is a prototype technology demo and is essentially an advanced infrared sensor on a tripod attached to a desktop computer. A 3-D wireframe displayed on the monitor serves as the desktop for the system. When someone is standing in front of the system, the infrared sensor picks up the movements of their hands, interpreting them into commands.

The main advantages of electronic books are convenience and choice. You can carry an entire library of eBooks with you and pick and read any from them at any moment. Most advanced ebook readers, like Amazon wireless reader, allow you to download books anywhere and anytime. However, many depend on what reading device you use for reading. The selection of e-book reader that best suits your needs can be a quite difficult task. The below table compares the best ebook readers available at the market and intended to help you with to make right choice.

The game changer here is that instead of using prohibitively expensive and complex motion capture systems incorporating sensors placed around the body (like those used in Hollywood special FX) his system uses the computer's web-cam to identify a hand position from a database of 100,000 pre-stored images. Once it finds a match it displays it on screen, and repeats this several times per second enabling it to recreate gestures in real time. A similar system, developed by Javier Romero and Danica Kragic of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, is attempting to do the same thing using your hand's flesh tones, meaning you don't even have to wear a glove at all. Perhaps this will be the basis for the system that enables gestural UI for the masses. An application that is cheap and simple. Genuinely different and new, yet intuitive to use. We've all seen the future. Maybe it isn't as far away as we think.