Just made this visualisation in After Effects instead of revising for the java test tomorrow Enjoy…

After my daily dose of HurtYouBad they posted something that would work very well with my augmented reality system.

By far, the most powerful detector/locator of wireless or wired hidden cameras on the market today. Two high-power alternately pulsating “laser frequency” beams scan for camera lenses up to 50 incredible feet. away. Hidden cameras are easily and quickly detected and viewed as bright flashing red lights by simply looking into the 4X magnified, focus adjustable, optical glass view port.

All “false” detections are virtually eliminated. Locates ALL kinds of cameras, including ultra mini pinhole and cameras hidden inside objects such as clock radios, smoke detectors, etc. A “must have” tool for police, private investigators, security professionials, or virtually anyone that wants privacy assurance.

No special training required. This camera detector will find more hidden cameras with less false results and greater accuracy than any other product on the market today.

Never even knew this existed!

My new setup, yum.

Hardware + Conceptualism = Digital Art

This was back in early ‘06. I have no idea what we were trying to achieve, but I think the monitors ended up in some trees.

Went to the Breaking Into The Media conference on Monday which was really interesting to see an employers perspective on new graduates and potential employees and how best ‘break in’ to the industry.
It’s a shame this was run at the same time as the Processing workshop because both would have been really good to go to. I got some photos from the green screen installation on the Portland Square building using the Processing visualisations that you can see below.

Amazing video, amazing song.

Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy.

Thought it may be useful to put this up. I got 66 as my mark which is a little less than I was expecting, but not too bad for being on my own whereas most others were in pairs.

Here’s the feedback from Chris;

A clear story – good reason why its so lo-fi. Although you could have referencd some visual art in this area – riley etc. Be interesting to make the trails 1point – so much finer. I’m not sure your decision to ditch the colour banded one was right – you could have submitted 2 pieces instead!!! (can you recover the code and put both of them on your blog?). It’s a well made piece and your management of the project has been brilliant considering you’re on your own. Sound would be good. Presentation was ok – articulation was a little weak but you tell a fair story. Illustrations would have helped anchor the piece. And it was odd finishing with the Digg inspiration rather than starting with it

So next time, include drawings and more references in the presentation

Semantic Web The emerging Second-Generation Web that is an extension of the current, FIRST-GENERATION WEB. The concept of the Semantic Web was produced by Tim BERNERS-LEE, who has also coined the term. The main idea of the Semantic Web is to delegate many current human-specific Web activities to computers. This will be possible if Web data are expressed in a machine-readable format suitable for completely automate transactions. It can be achieved by adding several hierarchical levels of METADATA to Web data and using specialist technologies that can make use of these metadata. ’ [Vladimir Geroimenko. Dictionary of XML Technologies and the Semantic Web. New York, 2004]

A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is a computer program that is so useful that people will buy a particular computer hardware, gaming console, and/or an operating system simply to run that program… There have been a number of new uses of the term. For instance the usefulness of e-mail drew many people to use the Internet, while the Mosaic web browser is generally credited with the initial rapid popularity of the World Wide Web. The term has also been applied to video games that cause consumers to buy a particular video game console to play them. ’ [Wikipedia.org]

Working in pairs, students are required:

- to investigate the most interesting and promising directions in the development of the Second Generation Web (also known as the Semantic Web or the XML-based Web);

- to propose a possible scenario for the future of the Web that can lead to creating a killer application for the Semantic Web;

- to simulate or implement the scenario and/or the killer application in a multimedia form using Flash XML (or any other relevant technologies, such as Shockwave/Director, DHTML/JavaScript or Java).

Doesn’t sound too bad, XML applications and a Russian lecturer with a laser.

Then get this £140 satnav toothbrush.

I’m all for technology, but do we really need something to tell us how to brush our teeth?

It’s a shame that the organism project wasn’t a month or so later as Google have now opened their new API which is quite remarkable as it is now a standard for most social websites, allowing developers to make an application that can be used cross-platform instead of having to create a new application for each. Considering the reputation that Google has, it seems like this API is going to be around for a while and will be very useful at some point in the near future as one application could reach literally millions of varied people on different social networking sites.

The list of partners mentioned seemed to have grown a bit: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.

Actually, I’ll give it a miss.