“Capture life in living pictures”

Capturing the light field of an object and render the images of the snapshot afterwards… Fascinating.
More at:
http://www.lytro.com/

There’s an interesting TED talk from Mike Matas on A next-generation digital book. The ideas are not that overwhelming, but nonetheless interesting. While watching, it made me wander: what if this has an engine for newsrooms? For easily editing news articles, adding infographics and publishing them to tablets? How would that CMS look like?

More on:
http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas.html or
http://www.mikematas.com/

Everything is connected to everything else, and everything can also be controlled through everything else. It is a perfect world.

Trust me, best 15 minutes you’ll see this week.
Great shortfilm by Mauro Calvone.

By using a holographic projection film, sets, characters and objects appear to float on stage alongside the performers. A camera and custom software track the performers, allowing the scene to react in a playful & more dynamic way.

Digital media is storytelling. For my kids, new media will be just media. Interaction, inspiration, imagination… More about this project on:
http://www.chrisoshea.org/little-magic-stories

20 magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no wires…

Too bad these are out of stock. Would love to buy this for my kids… More info at:
http://www.modrobotics.com/