Archive for the 'Software' Category

Cheap Multi Touch

So Microsoft has ‘Surface’ technology, expensive multi touch technology that is supposed to be the next generation computing platform. And then we have this, Johnny Lee has demonstrated how to implement a very cheap multi-touch ‘MS Surface’ like technology using a Wii remote.
The best part about this implementation is that all you need is a […]

Posted on Tuesday, 29th Apr, 2008

DVB-T in Auckland

New Zealand has been slowly trying to catch up to the rest of the world in terms of our digital TV infrastructure. As part of the move towards our Freeview digital platform we are currently undergoing a series of DVD-T test transmissions around the main city centres.
While I was away in Australia I managed […]

Posted on Thursday, 28th Feb, 2008

Videotrace

The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies has come up with a very interesting technology called ‘videotrace‘ that allows you to generate some very interesting 3D models of objects by using video footage.
Check out this demonstration.

Posted on Thursday, 10th Jan, 2008