Multimedia Book

Its hard to tell with these kinds of things if they're the future or crazy, but I rather like where the author is going with this app. It's a "book" for the iPad that integrates video and some little interactive sequences with the evidence from the case. Sadly I don't have one of those over sized iPhones so I can't try it for myself. Ah well.

Space-Time Distortion Cloaking Design

This is a new and very interesting way of approaching cloaking. Instead of trying to hide yourself in space, instead hide yourself in time! As cool as this idea is though, I must point out how incredibly impractical this kind of system would probably be. You need to somehow get this light slowing machine between you and the viewer without them seeing it, and to get any practical amount of cloaking time it'd need to be super deep. (With light going 30 mph, it'd have to be half a mile thick to get 60 sec of cloaking). Still, its pretty bad ass in theory.

Minority Report is Here Today

Minority Report is here! Well, not the whole future reading police force bit, but the more important "wave your hands about" input model. I still can't really tell if this is actually a good way to interact with your machine for a lot of uses, but I'm sure we'll find out in the future. This presentation is pretty awesome, but it also has a lot of little cheats in it. Just because you have a cool glove doesn't mean you can instantly crop a dump truck out of a moving video and comp it in with some dude. Thats a piece of software that simply doesn't exist yet.

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.