The Washington post has released an interview done by their reporter Dana Milbank. The video lacks one little detail: the answers. You’re supposed to make them yourself.
So, download the clip from the Washington Post, sit down in front of your camera and answer the questions. Or let your hamster answer the questions. Or your neighbour. Whatever. Then fire up your favourite video editing software. Make the final video with Dana Milbank’s questions and your answers. Then submit it to the Washington Post and wait for feedback and glory.
First, an apology to my RSS subscribers. Unfortunately, articles from this blog get published again if I change them. Recently I have done some experiments where I change the hosting of some of my videos to Google Video from YouTube. All the articles that have been modified will then show up as new in many RSS-readers. Sorry for the inconvenience.
So for my little experiment. I have posted a couple of videos lately, and have been using YouTube to host them. I have also been playing around with Google Video, and here is a quick round-up:
YouTube
– Low quality on videos
– Big community and lots of possible viewers even without links from a blog or web page
– Very nice with trackbacks so you can see who is linking to your videos
– Counter that shows how many times the video has been played
– Web based uploader with good feedback on progress
GoogleVideo
– Better quality than YouTube
– In general less traffic and smaller chances for people discovering your video unless you link to it from your blog
– Possibilities for selling videos
– Possible to let people download your video as well
– Web based uploader with limited feedback on progress
– Desktop based uploader available
If you have any comments on what you prefer please contact me or comment directly here.
Here is an example of the same video, hosted on GoogleVideo and on YouTube:
All the way trough Siggraph this year I have tried to keep a close eye on the companies and brains behind the stuff that I have seen. To be able to provide my readers, the people listening to my presentations and myself with links and relevant sources of more information.
But some images and video clips managed to get into my camera without any other info. This is one of them. I wanted to share it because this is the solution for the parents that refuse to give their son a set of drums because of all the noise.
These virtual drums, a pair of high quality headphones and you’re all set…
This might not look very impressive, but it is. By using lasers and all kinds of projection technologies we have seen different kinds of 3D images before, but all of them rely on something that reflect the light so that you can see the image.
Some of the most real looking and impressive versions of the holographic effects that you can see in movies like StarWars have been done using lasers and smoke in the room to reflect the image.
Image copyright Burton-jp.com
But what if you want a 3D image to appear in thin air? With nothing to reflect the light? Nobody has done that before using laser plasma this way.
That’s why the simple dots of light that you can see in this video are impressive. This is the Nipkow Disk of the 21st century. We’re on to something here. Before you know it Princess Leia will be right in your room praying Obi-Wan to help her.
I guess many of you have seen this video on YouTube already. An amazing piece of input device. It is on display here at Siggraph and I can’t say much more than WOW! After trying it I can confirm that it works just as well as it looks like in the video.
The guys behind it are setting up a company and hope to put it into production. Where can I buy shares?
I am of the opinion that the way we separate art from technology today is bad for creativity. And bad for engineering. And bad for problem solving. Here at Siggraph one of the great attractions each year is the art exhibition. Where art meets technology. Just like back in the good old days of guys like Leonardo da Vinci.
Tetsuaki Baba has made a system that turns the audience into drums. By using electro dermal activity and skin resistance he detect contact and gives the different participants different sounds.
It was truly fascinating to try out the system. You really feel like being a part of the music.
You find more information and some more videos over at Mr. Baba’s project page.
Possibly not, but four years ago I travelled through Alsace in France with a digital camera and a Garmin GPS. After the trip I matched the time stamps in the GPS track with the time stamps of the images from my camera. Giving me a pretty exact position of where all my pictures where taken. By using some software I was also able to place all the pictures on a map.
If you’re a student about to finish and need a job. And you have the possibility to speak to thousands of people within your industry at a huge conference. Then this T-shirt is really perfect…
I would have put in my web site instead of “Contact me for my CV”, but still a great idea.
…or, augumented reality tennis. That’s what the creators of this nice application want to call it.
It’s a game for Symbian based phones like the Nokia 6630, 6670, N series etc. The application use the camera in the phone to read the pattern on the table. It then analyze this stream of information and renders a tennis court on the screen of the mobile. When you move the mobile in any direction the tennis court will adjust. Meaning that the phone works like your tennis racket.
It uses both sound and vibration in the phone to give feedback to the user in addition to the actual game on the screen. The game is synchronized between the phones using bluetooth.
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