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Extreme: Lewis Gordon Pugh swims the North Pole
January 24, 2010 – 2:05 pm | No Comment
Extreme: Lewis Gordon Pugh swims the North Pole

Lewis Gordon Pugh, the first person to swim at the North Pole, talks about his using extremes to accelerate the conversation about global warming. He talks about his record-breaking swim across the North Pole. He …

Microsoft Surface Parody
August 21, 2009 – 3:28 pm | No Comment
Microsoft Surface Parody

What is Microsoft Surface?
According to Microsoft, “Surface is the first commercially available surface computer and turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, interactive surface. The product provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural gestures, …

Project Natal
August 21, 2009 – 2:14 pm | No Comment
Project Natal

Project Natal is the code name for a new technology developed by Microsoft to allow advanced gesture recognition, facial recognition, and voice recognition. It is the base for a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" for …

Watch Matt Dancing Badly Around The World
July 24, 2009 – 4:46 am | No Comment
Watch Matt Dancing Badly Around The World

Watch Matt dance with people all across the Globe. The latest of the Where the Hell is Matt videos is showing people of different nationalities and cultures getting together to dance with Matt:

Here’s the second …

Man on Wire
March 30, 2009 – 7:51 am | No Comment
Man on Wire

On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire and illegally rigged between the New York’s twin towers. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, …

Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
March 11, 2009 – 4:34 pm | 2 Comments
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote

Johnny Lee a PhD. Graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.:
Since the Wiimote can track sources of infrared (IR) light, you can track pens that have an IR led in the …