Enjoy

Immerse yourself in the space race
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the folks at the JLF Presidential Library and Museum have created this involving and educational site. It’s a lovely interactive experience that combines real world audio and visual data, such as recordings from the Command Center, photographs and videos with flash to make a site that helps people really imagine what it must have been like.

Wonder what the response from the conspiracy theorists will be?

3D Graffiti
Not much I can say, other than this is GREAT!

Holographic Architectural Imaging
This is a fascinating way to render buildings without the cost of building models. It got me thinking to how holography could be used for onboarding to help new employees find their way around campuses.

Another great tool from Lufthansa
I mentioned Lufthansa’s MySkyStatus tool last year, which allows travelers to post updates to either Facebook or Twitter. As a result of its success (Some 17,000 automatic tweets have since been posted)  the tool now gives users the option of having their departure, in-flight location and arrival updates sent via email as well. Travellers can choose who will receive their updates and when and can also add personalised messages.  It’s pretty cool. Just annoying that you have to be flying Lufthansa to use it…

The Wall of Life
Built by Russ’s favourite company in Tunbridge Wells.

OK. so the use of holography isn’t that new. For a while. HP has been looking into holographic data storage (and strugglng to develop a commercially viable application). And even good ol Prince Charlie had a go at the recent Climate Conference. But until now, live bidirectional holography wasn’t commercialy possible or viable. And OK, so this currently costs c£35K, but given the current state of technological development, I’m wondering how long it will be before this is a facility that all phones are developed with.

And how long before some smart alec develops the Star Trek Holodeck? Now that WOULD be cool…

Second life, schmecond life. I’m struggling to stay in touch with this one.