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"Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come up with a device that can render digital 3D content physically and which could change the way we interact with PCs ... In a video, the inFORM was shown to be used for 3D modelling, viewing bar charts, maths education and controlling media (like the volume of a radio), among many other things."

"StatPlanet Plus - Interactive Mapping & Visualization Software StatPlanet Plus has support for large data sets, logo embedding, ESRI shapefile maps, exporting graphs and maps, and many more features. Read more"

This launch page has interactive movie tutorials for GoAnimate, Stupeflix and Xtranormal. Clicking on the links will take you to the interactive where you can begin to create your movie using the various tools.

Twitter's importance as an ecosystem can't be underestimated. Sociologist Brian Solis and data visualization specialists JESS3 have got together to create an infographic that shows just how big it's become. This version is interactive with each application link active.

The 'Art Project' is a "unique collaboration with some of the world's most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. * Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum's galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though interactive floor plans and learn more about the museum and you explore. * Artwork View: discover featured artworks at high resolution and use the custom viewer to zoom into paintings. Expanding the info panel allows you to read more about an artwork, find more works by that artist and watch related YouTube videos. * Create your own collection: the 'Create an Artwork Collection' feature allows you to save specific views of any of the 1000+ artworks and build your own personalised collection. Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with friends and family.

QR code generation is one of the useful and an inexpensive way of attracting customers. So that they interact more with the products and...

"Codea lets you create games and simulations - or just about any visual idea you have. Turn your thoughts into interactive creations that make use of iPad features like Multi-Touch and the accelerometer. "

"The past few months have indeed seen a surge of AirPlay-compatible desktop utilities and apps that take advantage of Apple's technology for audio and video streaming. From games enhanced with AirPlay to enable new controls and interactions, to several desktop utilities that are now connecting Macs and Apple TVs with AirPlay, there's plenty of options out there to beam images and audio to devices running iOS or OS X. "

Software Freedom Day is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free software and open source software. "Our vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable." - Software Freedom Day vision statement

Great Melbourne 2010 event worth noting in your diary and passing on.

"When we perceive of risk in sharing publicly and interacting online we nearly always risk obscuring huge benefits with our own inflated fear of the unknown. Research shows that digital risks are far outweighed, in fact, by challenges more close to home and school." From Ewan McIntosh comes this review of current research into issues of cyberbullying and connectivity

"Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more."

"Graeme Anthony C.V.I.V - Intro Email - graeme.anthony@hotmail.co.uk Twitter - http://twitter.com/comms_anarchist Created by Graeme Anthony, brought to life by Dan Burdett - http://www.thisisheavy.co.uk"

Amazing way to promote yourself with an interactive video CV on YouTube. I hope that this chap can get a job from this CVIV.

micromobs is a group messaging service and is the easiest way to manage and communicate with multiple groups. micromobs presents your group messages as a stream of content which means you can chose which messages to respond to and which messages to skim over or ignore. This means your group messages will no longer clutter your inbox, and you wont need to go to different websites to interact with your various social groups.

DeweyDigger.com is a visual search portal where you can "Explore knowledge via the Dewey Decimal Classification; just clickety-click."  On the splash page you are presented with the main Dewey Numbers and an ever-changing interactive panorama showing images from these listings.  Next you need to click on an image to access a cloud tag of terms in that call number.  From there you can select a tag and then select a search or research tool to locate information.

"As people share more information about themselves online, the internet, in effect, has created a public transcript of consciousness -- storing our thoughts, locations, social lives and memories in data warehouses all over the world. This has enabled technological advances and shaped our social interactions. It's also really freaked some people out. "

"The Cisco Binary Game is the best way to learn and practice the binary number system. It is great for classes, students and teachers in science, math, digital electronics, computers, programming, logic and networking. It is also a LOT of fun to play for anyone who likes to play fast-paced arcade games."

"What happened to the company that not too long ago launched Windows 7, a product that many thought was Microsoft's best operating system yet? At some point in the last few years, Microsoft decided that its consumer products had to be "touch first."