Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality

Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality

By NICK BILTON
Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses, but questions have been raised on how privacy will be regulated. 

A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day. Expanded Corning Vision.

Corning selling a vision of a future of glass interface. Really?

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

a provocative and quick read:

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

"Hands do two things. They are two utterly amazing things, and you rely on them every moment of the day, and most Future Interaction Concepts completely ignore both of them.

Hands feel things, and hands manipulate things."


courtesy of
artdepartment.tumblr.com

de Young Museum Call for Art

New Generations: Student Showcase
Call for student artwork to be featured at the
de Young Museum on April 22, 2011
Application deadline: March 14

TITLE: Where to? The Call of the Times

DESCRIPTION: Our communities are responding in different ways to the social issues of our times such as the recession, human rights or climate change. The challenges ahead are dynamic and often troubling, yet, we will continue to find solutions through activism and art.

IDEO Imagines the Future of Books

Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?



The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Kindle E-Book Sales Surpass Hardcovers at Amazon

"We've reached a tipping point with the new price of Kindle—the growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled since we lowered the price from $259 to $189," said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "In addition, even while our hardcover sales continue to grow, the Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format. Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books than hardcover books—astonishing when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128629853&sc=emaf