Multi-touch Whiteboard with Wiimote and infrared

Do you want to create a very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays?!?
Well Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University gives us the solution.
He used infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote.





Download the software at http://johnnylee.net

Use your digital camera to scan documents,business cards, whiteboards, and books.

How to use your digital camera as a mobile scanner to scan documents, business cards, whiteboards, and books?
Snapter is software that lets you use a digital camera as a mobile scanner. The software automatically crops, stretches, flattens, and converts photos of documents, whiteboards, posters, business cards and receipts into more portable images. Whether you are in a library, conference room or classroom, just snap the photo and run it through Snapter to produce images that look as if they have been scanned through a flatbed scanner!

Download it now here.

Cisco Magic Telepresence

"Cisco TelePresence creates lifelike, in-person experiences so that people everywhere can work, live, play, and learn together in person, over the network."

This is the cisco's presentation on their official site about this "new" kind of technology that is not based on hologram technology.




Read brochure about it.

Img credit Andrei Z

China's bridge. The most longest bridge in the world.

Simply amazing video about the longest bridge in the world. It's 36Km long and will bridge Shanghai with Ningboad. The commercial and Golden Industrial Triangle - between Shangai, Hangzhou e Ningbo