Monday Musing and Meanderings: Interesting videos and links about emerging technologies.

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Monday Musing and Meanderings: Interesting videos and links about emerging technologies. Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:20 PM PST INTERACTIVE TANGIBLE TABLETOP MUSIC Reactable Live! SubMixPro Studio Torino The Reactable featured in the above video is used for DJ-ing in clubs. The one I've played with is at the science museum in my area - I love it. It is fun to improvise on the Reactable with another person.  For more information, see my previous blog posts featuring the Reactable. AUGMENTED REALITY While listening to CNBC on my satellite radio on the way home today,  I heard that investing in Qualcomm might be a good idea.   I wonder if this means that Wall Street analysts think that  AR will become mainstream soon...    The video below shows a variety of creative AR game applications: Qualcomm has an AR SDK that comes with tutorials, samples, an API reference, and developer forums. The SDK can be downloaded from the Qualcomm AR web-page. For more information: GDC 11:  AR- The Augmented Future of Mobile Serious Games?  Eliane Alhadeff, Serious Games Market, 3/7/11 Qualcomm Augmented Reality Research Qualcomm Extends Augmented Reality with Unity Technologies Qualcomm's secret mobile weapon:  Augmented Reality Robert Enderle,  TG Daily, 2/24/11 This sort of technology has been around for a while. For an example, take a look at  the 2007 MScape game demo of the AR game, Roku's Reward: THE KINECT FOR MEDICAL DATA VISUALIZATION  Here is another use of augmented reality, but this time, harnessing the Kinect: Magic Mirror for Medical Data Visualization using Kinect Madhav K. ,  Kinecthacks  Public Presentation of mirracle PHOTOELASTIC TOUCH Transparent Rubbery Interface using a LCD and Photoelasticity Toshiki Sato, Haruko Mamiya, Taro Tokui, Hideki Koike,  The Unversity of Electro-Communications;  Kentaro Fukuchi, Japan Science and Technology Agency Abstract (pdf) ART AND SCREENS Nomad capacitive brush turns your iPhone into an art canvas for $24.00 Darren Murph, Engadget, 2/22/11 Nomad Brush for the iPad from Don Lee on Vimeo. http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

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