Astro Boy will be landing on our screens in October this year, it’s been confirmed. For those who don’t know, ‘Astro Boy’ is an anime sci-fi series set in a dystopian future where humans and androids coexist. It’s main character is a powerful robot called Astro Boy (Astro for short), who was created by a [...]
Colour Picker by Jinsun Park
by Tom Saunter on 26. Jun, 2009 in design, innovation, re-blog
Colour Picker is an innovative design of a concept pen that can scan colours from anything around and instantly use the colour for drawing: After placing the pen against an object, the user just presses the scan button. The colour is being detected by the colour sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes [...]
AR Hype Cycle
by Tom Saunter on 16. Jun, 2009 in Technology, image
A great bit of work from SPRX Mobile has come to my attention: Man, I’m looking forward to the Slope of Enlightenment! However, I reckon we’re already at the Peak of Inflated Expectations, due a worldwide crash into the Trough of Dissillusionment within the next six months. Thoughts?
Virtual Reality
by Tom Saunter on 30. May, 2009 in academic
AR is considered by some to be a logical progression of VR technologies (Liarokapis, 2006; Botella, 2005; Reitmayr & Schmalstieg, 2001), a more appropriate way to interact with information in real-time that has been granted only by recent innovations. Thus, one could consider that a full historical appraisal would pertain to VR’s own history, plus [...]
The Subscription Options Plugin
by Tom Saunter on 30. May, 2009 in Web
My aim is to make my views on Digital Media, Branding and Emergent Technologies as accessible as possible not only to industry types, but to the blog-scouring early-adopting masses. My ongoing series on Augmented Reality has been relatively successful in boosting both the visitation and the subscribership of this blog. Aside from the content I’ve [...]
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