Play backed-up Wii games 11/08/2008 If you’re prone to scratching or loosing your Wii games, there’s a way to back up your games to DVD...
Hand gesture multitouch using only a webcam 11/07/2008 Andy Wilson of MS Research—a name you may recognize from yesterday’s $1 gesture recognition post—is responsible for a number of...
Hand gesture multitouch using only a webcam 11/07/2008 Andy Wilson of MS Research—a name you may recognize from yesterday’s $1 gesture recognition post—is responsible for a number of...
Gesture recognition for Javascript and Flash 11/06/2008 The “$1 Recognizer” is a simple gesture recognition algorithm created by Andy Wilson from Microsoft Research and Jacob Wobbrock and...
Programming DNA 11/05/2008 At last year’s Chaos Communication Congress conference, Drew Endy presented a lecture titled “Programming DNA – A 2-bit language for...
Live via hologram 11/04/2008 During tonight’s election coverage, CNN pulled out some deep tech, displaying Jessica Yellin live via hologram. I looked closely and...
Top 5 election day mashups 11/03/2008 Aside from the politics, opinions, and issues involved in this election, I’ve been really interested in how the current state...
Telescope control with stepper motors 11/02/2008 If you want to take a stab at amateur astrophotography, or have a telescope with “goto” or auto tracking capability,...
CSSHttpRequest – cross browser AJAX without JSON 11/01/2008 Because XMLHttpRequest only functions in a same-origin model, the main alternatives have been to either proxy the XML request server-side,...
The Skein hash function and Threefish block cipher 10/31/2008 The National Institute of Standards and Technology is holding a competition to design a new hash function to replace the...