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The Worlds Largest Multi Touch Wall 34 Million Pixels Generated By 15 High Definition Projectors Supported By Sound Prod

Dec 4, 2009

  • The worlds largest multi-touch wall: "34 million pixels generated by 15 high definition projectors, supported by sound produced by 30 directional speakers"
  • Twitter beard!: "just insert your face"
  • Why your friends have more friends than you do: "You are more likely to be friends with someone who has more friends than with someone who has fewer friends"
  • Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk: "my 36-minute recording was transcribed while I slept, in less than three hours, for a grand total of $15.40"
  • Opera Face Gestures: "lets you perform frequent browsing operations with natural and easy to make face gestures"
  • Interesting post on design decisions behind Skype Chat, the best IM out there I reckon
  • Differentiated presence on GMail chat status, nice touch: "when you know the guy on the other end is using his Android phone, you may decide to send shorter, more concise chat messages"
  • How rich are you? Humbling.
  • Square looks cute - the use of the headphone jack is particularly lovely, and I could see it getting uptake from smartphone owners (particularly if the customer hardware becomes fashionable or desirable), but I wonder how they plan to get the merchant side of the infrastructure rolled out to the extent that it's worthwhile.
  • Via Dom, Appvent Calendar - a free iPhone game every day. Cute.
  • The two use-cases of mobile - amen;

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