Google buys BumpTop |
- Google buys BumpTop
- 2010 SID (Society for Information Display) International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition: Display Week
- Link to Innovative Interactivity (II) & post: SMART Technologies' acquisition of NextWindow: A "smart window" to the world
| Posted: 06 May 2010 03:51 PM PDT BumpTop is an application designed for touch-screen interaction and was introduced at TED by Anand Agarawala, who worked on the application for his Masters thesis at the University of Toronto. The company was recently bought by Google. Below is the video of Agarawala's 2009 TED Talk: Here is a link to a previous post about BumpTop: Bump Top 3D Desktop on a Touch Screen: Toss Your Photos to your Facebook Icon! RELATED Announcement about Google's acquisition of BumpTop, from the BumpTop website: Dear BumpTop fans, More than three years ago, we set out to completely change the way people use their desktops. We're very grateful for all your support over that time — not just financially but also through all the encouraging messages from people who found BumpTop inspiring, useful, and just downright fun. Today, we have a big announcement to make: we're excited to announce that we've been acquired by Google! This means that BumpTop (for both Windows and Mac) will no longer be available for sale. Additionally, no updates to the products are planned. For the next week, we're keeping BumpTop Free available for download at bumptop.com/download to give BumpTop fans one last chance to grab a copy. Existing BumpTop Pro users should visit bumptop.com/pro for more information. Thanks again for all your support over the years. Despite our change in strategy, we remain as passionate as ever about helping shape the future of computing! Sincerely,  April 30th 2010http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 06 May 2010 03:23 PM PDT I love interactive displays, and if I could, I'd attend the following conference: 2010 International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition May 23 - May 28, 2010 Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA The SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, now in its 48th year, is the premier international gathering of scientists, engineers, manufacturers, and users in the electronic-display industry.
Courses offered during Display Week:
3D In-Home Cinema: "A special 3-D Cinema Event will be held on Tuesday, May 25, from 7:30 to 10:00 pm. 3-D film shorts will be exhibited stereoscopically on a special 30-ft. silver screen, with featured talks by 3-D filmmakers and other members of the rapidly growing industry. Attendance at this session is free for anyone that is registered for the Tuesday-Friday Symposium. The fee for attending only this session is $100 ($15 for full-time Students or Life Members). The fee includes refreshments, plus access to both the Symposium Keynote Session on Tuesday morning and the Exhibit Hall, enabling 3-D film enthusiasts to see the cutting edge in display technology that is bringing 3-D into the home." I'd like to highlight the people who will receive awards and honors during the conference: EACH YEAR, the Society for Information Display (SID) honors individual scientists and researchers for outstanding achievements in the field of electronic information displays and for outstanding service to the Society. Only a small number of the preeminent members of the industry are nominated and fewer still are finally chosen as recipients. This year's winners will be honored during Display Week 2010 at the annual awards banquet to be held on Monday evening, May 24, prior to the Symposium.
NOTE: I sometimes use this blog as a resource for supporting career education activities for high school students. By sharing information about the people behind various technologies, I hope to inspire young people to consider careers in STEM-related fields. (STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.) http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 06 May 2010 03:05 PM PDT I am happy to announce that will be contributing a post bi-weekly on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month for the Innovative Interactivity (II) blog. In my first post, I discuss interactive technologies in education and the explosion in the number of interactive whiteboards making way in classrooms in the US and around the globe. The motivation for this post came from last week's announcement of Smart Technologie's acquisition of NextWindow. Not long after the announcement, I had a chance to speak with Al Monro, CEO of NextWindow, and Nancy Knowlton, CEO of Smart Technologies. I share some of their insights in my post: SMART Technologies' acquisition of NextWindow: A "smart window" to the world About Innovative Interactivity (II): "Innovative Interactivity serves as an open forum for multimedia producers, web developers and all other visualization junkies. Content focuses on the dynamics and theory of how people receive and react to different forms of information on the Web, both through visual, multimedia storytelling and interactive data visualization." "The goal is that this blog will provide an outlet for those in the online realm, whether you are interested in learning about multimedia, interactivity, programming languages, data visualization, or all of the above. Hopefully you will be inspired from what you read here to surpass your current web standards in order to develop highly effective multimedia interactives for the digital community." Tracy Boyer | Founder & Managing Editor Previously, she was a multimedia producer at Roanoke.com, served as the UNC correspondent for CNN.com and interned with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 2007, she was selected to participate in the Poynter Summer Fellowship. Boyer graduated with a multimedia degree from UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her passions lie in travel and multimedia production with a focus on video, audio and interactive graphics. See more of her work at www.tracynboyer.com. Boyer is available for speaking engagements and seminars. Please contact her for more information. Andrea Ballocchi | Spanish Editor & Social Media Manager In 2005, she participated in the multimedia project "The Ancient Way", in Spain. Since then she has participated in several other projects, including "Chasing Crusoe," "Atacama Stories," "Special Olympics in Shanghai and Idaho," and "South of Here." She has also taught and coordinated projects at Universidad de los Andes, Chile. Andrea Ballocchi is currently a multimedia journalism graduate student at the University of Miami, Fla. and works at The Knight Center for International Media. Ellen Peck | Contributor, Philanthropic MultimediaPosts publish bi-weekly on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month Ellen also serves in the role of producer and creative/content advisor to documentary film, music and other projects in the arts associated with social and environmental issues. Her projects include the film and soundtrack for "Born into Brothels," (USA) which garnered the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2005, and for "Stolen," (Australia) currently showing at international film festivals. Ellen is a Liberal Arts grad with a degree from Amherst College. Lynn Marentette | Contributor, Academic MultimediaPosts publish bi-weekly on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month Lynn has presented on topics such as multimedia thinking and learning, universal usability of interactive multimedia, and universal design and accessibility for games. She returned to school a few years ago to learn how to make interactive multimedia applications and games for the web, handheld devices, and large displays, and has taken graduate courses such as game design, ubiquitous computing, and virtual reality in preparation for a potential PhD in Information Technology at UNC-Charlotte. http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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