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Nature by Numbers
착시현상 그 심오한 세계
Impossible motion: magnet-like slopes
Floating Cube in Center
Crazy Nuts Illusion!
Shady Optical Illusion 2: Crazy Diamonds
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엘빈 토플러의 Next 40 years
올해는 미국의 미래학자 앨빈 토플러가 `미래의 충격`(Future Shock)이란 저서를 통해 미래 세계를 조망한지 40주년이 되는 해. 600만부가 팔린 `미래의 충격`에서 제기된 다양한 예측은 현실로 증명된 것이 많고, 지식의 과부하, 권력이동, 디지털 혁명, 지식시대 등 핵심 표현들은 이제는 사전에 실릴 정도가 됐다.
그러면 앞으로 40년 뒤의 미래 세계는 어떤 세상일까? 이에 대한 해답을 `토플러 협회` 소속 미래학자들이 14일 `앞으로 다가올 40년뒤의 40가지`라는 제목의 리포트를 통해 제시하고 있다.
전국 일간 `유에스에이(USA) 투데이`는 이날 오는 2050년까지 발생할 변화를 담은 이 보고서의 내용을 집중 소개했다.
◇ 정치 = 향후 3년 내에 80여개국에서 대통령 선거가 실시될 예정이어서 세계적으로 새로운 지도자들이 대거 등장할 것으로 보인다. 특히 여성 지도자들이 괄목하게 증가할 것으로 보이며, 종교단체들이 주도하는 세력이 정부에 진출하는 사례도 늘 전망이다.
또 마이크로소프트 창업자인 빌 게이츠와 같이 자선활동을 하는 기업가들의 국제적 영향력이 갈수록 증가하게 된다.
◇ 기술 = 세계적으로 전문가에 대한 신속한 접근이 용이해지는 세상이 된다. 특히 성공적인 조직들은 문제를 해결하고, 해답을 제시하는 전문가나 단체와 즉각 연결되는 세상이 도래한다. 또 화학, 생물학, 방사능, 핵, 기상관련 센서들이 휴대전화와 같은 생활필수품에 대거 내장되는 시대가 될 것이다. 지금까지 인기를 끌어온 대량생산 방식은 주문제작과 주문 생산 방식으로 바뀌게 된다.
값싸고 작은 감시장비들이 인기를 끌면서 사생활 침해 사례도 확산할 것으로 보인다. 또 데이터의 수집이 과거보다 훨씬 빨라져 분석 속도를 능가할 정도가 되면서불필요한 정보가 넘쳐나는 `사이버 쓰레기`(cyberdust) 현상도 나타날 수 있다.
◇ 사회생활 = 소비자들이 혁신 과정에서 가장 중요한 원천이 되는 시대가 된다. 소셜 네트워크들의 영향력도 갈수록 증가한다.
◇ 경제 = 기업들은 각국의 국경을 신속하게 넘나들 정도로 민첩한 조직으로 변신하게 된다. 기술의 진보는 빈국들에 경제적 파워를 확보할 기회도 제공하게 된다.
정보의 홍수와 급속한 시대변화로 말미암아 항상 업데이트하지 않으면 쓸모가 없는 `무용지식`(obsoledge)이 많아지게 된다. 또 어디서 일을 하는지는 덜 중요해지며, 화이트칼라 계층은 좁은 방에서 근무하는 환경에서 벗어나게 된다.
◇ 환경 = 정수시스템의 발전으로 인해 개발도상국에서 많은 질병이 사라지게 되며, 음용수 부족난도 해결될 것으로 보인다.
한편 신문은 토플러가 `미래의 충격`에서 제기됐던 많은 예상이 현실로 입증됐다고 평가했다. 뉴스가 신속하게 전 세계로 퍼지는 세상은 CNN의 등장과 트위터 및 페이스북의 인기가 증명하고 있고, 퍼스널 컴퓨터시대는 10억명이 컴퓨터를 사용한다는 통계가,환경상의 대재앙 발생은 멕시코만 기름유출 사건이 입증해 주고 있다.
가족제도의 변화는 동성가족의 등장으로 현실화됐고, 유전자 복제와 홈 스쿨링 학생의 증가 그리고 유명인사와 연예인들에 대한 인기가 아주 빠르게 변하는 시대가 될 것이란 예측도 현실화됐다.
이런 가운데 워싱턴 D.C에서는 주중에 토플러를 비롯해 정부관리와 기업 경영자들이 참석한 가운데 `미래의 충격`이 미친 영향 그리고 앞으로의 40년을 예상하는 토론회가 개최된다.
<원문>
It has been 40 years since Alvin Toffler popularized the terms in his jolting portrait of things to come in the landmark book Future Shock. Six million copies have sold, and the phrases from it now are part of the lexicon. If future shock is now, what does the future hold?
Today, Toffler Associates releases "40 For The Next 40" — trends it says will shape our world from now to 2050. What the changes could bring:
• Politics. New leaders around the globe (80 nations will hold presidential elections in the next three years), an unprecedented increase in female leaders and a push by religious groups to get into government. "Philanthro-capitalists" such as Microsoft's Bill Gates will have more global influence.
• Technology. Rapid access to specialists across the globe. Successful organizations will link "answer seekers" and "problem solvers."
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and meteorological sensors will be part of everyday devices such as cellphones.
Mass production will be replaced by on-demand, custom manufacturing.
Invasion of privacy will spread — the result of cheaper, smaller and widely available surveillance devices. Data may be collected faster than it can be analyzed, resulting in "cyberdust."
• Social ways. Consumers will be the most important source of innovation. Social networks will gain influence.
• Economics. Corporations will be nimble enough to maneuver in and out of countries very quickly. Technological advances will give poor nations the opportunity for economic power. "Obsoledge" will be knowledge that becomes obsolete — a process that will happen faster because change is so rapid.
Where work is done will matter much less. White-collar workers will be freed from their cubicles.
• Environment. Better water filtration will eliminate many diseases from developing countries and fill the need for drinkable water.
A whirlwind of change
The relentless pace of change wearies some Americans.
Vernon Wease, 50, a fundraiser for a non-profit group in Portland, Ore., uses a smartphone, the Internet, e-mails, texts andFacebook.
"I would give up most of the convenience in a minute," he says. "I have adapted and given in, in part due to my kids."
His three children — ages 23, 19 and 15 — have no difficulty with the information overload Future Shock warned the world about.
Wease, who speaks longingly of his dad's Underwood manual typewriter, struggles. He tried to explain to his daughter the importance of face-to-face communication. "Because of Facebook, she could not grasp it," he says.
"What has really come to pass is this idea that we would be going through massive revolutionary change in society, and we are," says Deborah Westphal, managing partner of Toffler Associates, a management consulting firm founded by Toffler and his wife, Heidi (her name wasn't on the bookbecause publishers thought a male author would sell better). "Time would become almost instantaneous. Space doesn't matter anymore. There's no boundary."
The Tofflers are appearing this week at a forum in Washington, D.C., that marks the 40th anniversary of Future Shock. Business and government leaders are meeting to discuss the book's impact and hear Toffler Associates' predictions for the next 40 years.
How many of the Tofflers' warnings have been realized?
"Look at the arguments we're having about border control, privacy," Westphal says. "We're trying to solve these problems. ... The shock is still occurring."
Has the shock worn off?
Some analysts suggest the shock wasn't so shocking.
"If you says things in a general enough way, they will always be true," says Cheryl Russell, editorial director at New Strategist Publications, a publisher of books on demographics, and former editor in chief of American Demographics. "Everybody had this sense that something was coming, and nobody could really put their finger on it, and then, of course, the Internet emerged."
Have technology and the speed of information created the "shock" the Tofflers predicted by overwhelming people and leaving them disconnected?
The book "kind of popularized an angst that a lot of people feel," says Robert Lang, urban sociologist at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. "The reality is that people are quite adaptable. I have a son who walks around with an iPad and iPod Touch, wondering why there's not Wi-Fi everywhere. ... Kids adapt to technology quickly, but there's a core of traditional values that remains."
Wease longs for the days of snail mail and telephone calls. "I believe he (Toffler) was probably right," Wease says. "The future has delivered things to us that radically change our lifestyle, and not always for the better."
Toffler's view of the future need not be feared, Westphal says. "What's on the other end is very exciting," she says. "You ask Alvin Toffler now about the future, and he says it's bright. He's an optimist. ... We are in the midst of this massive change, and we're figuring it out."
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Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome, France
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Flash AS3 Multitouch App programming Tutorial by nuigroup
Flash/ActionScript 3.0
ActionScript 3.0 can be used in many flash compilers, as well as Flex and Air as a development environment. If you are not using CCV 1.2 or newer (which include a direct option for sending to Flash/ActionScript), ActionScript builds also need FLOSC to convert data from tBeta and Touchlib to a feed it can recognize.
- Building Your First Multi-Touch Application in Flash
- Blob Lines
- Getting Started with GoogleMaps and Flash
- Add/Move/Remove Movie Clip from Library via Touchpoints
- Simple Draw from PaintCanvas.as
- Understanding RotatableScalable.as
- Fractals
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Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
연설문펼쳐두기..
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
2010년 3월 17일 수요일
YikeBike - Urban Freedom
Frame: Carbon composite
Power: 1 kW, 30min re-charge
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Mediaart Workshop by Tetsuaki Baba
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Yamaha Tenori-On
FlexiKnobs: Multipoint Interaction with Audio Software
Sukhoi Su-27 Jet by Harald Huf Germany

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Microsoft Photosynth™

1. 사진을 준비한다. 겹쳐서 찍은 사진이 많을 수록 좋다.
2. http://photosynth.net에 접속하여 로그인 (회원가입이 안되있다면 가입을 해야함)
3. "Create your Synth"를 클릭, "Create a Synth" 클릭
4. 사진을 불러들인 후, Synth 버튼을 클릭하면 완성
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Multi Touch Interface in Air (new)
ION TWIN VIDEO with Charles Trippy and Alli Speed

2010년 1월 25일 월요일
R/C plane from trash
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Button Beats Vitual Piano
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21 step Japanese puzzle box
SUPER CUBI 324-STEP JAPANESE PUZZLE BOX YOSEGI MUKU
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Working Flash applications with multi-touch
David “Whitenoise” Wallin, one of the main developers at NUIgroup, wrote a couple of applications in Flash 9 using Actionscript 3 to collaborate with the multi-touch display. These Flash applications communicate with TUIO data (OSC implemented) sent by Touchlib (THE open source multi-touch library).
View FlickR Lightbox - This imports a set of photo’s from Flickr, it’s possible to move, rotate and scale the objects (see image above)
View Paint Application - A simple yet effective way to show the use of a brush by using your fingers
View Ripples Application - Generate ripple effects with your fingers (this application is very cpu intensive)
Download Source Code - Download the source code for all these three applications. Make sure you have Flash 9 and Actionscript 3 installed. It’s necessary to have Flash 8. Afterwards update it with the Flash 9 Alpha patch . This patch includes Actionscript 3.
Howto
To illustrate how to setup these applications with your multi-touch display, I’m writing down this little howto.
First of all you’ll need a working multi-touch display. You could also just test the applications with a remote control and a hacked webcam that detects infra red light.
First of all you need to have Flash 9 with Actionscrip 3 installed. Download here.
Second, you’ll need the Flash applications. Download here.
And finally, you need Touchlib. Download here.
These are the binaries (executables). But you can also compile Touchlib yourself. The source of Touchlib can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/touchlib/ In most cases you just want to go with the precompiled binairies, if you’re not an experienced software developer.
In the Touchlib package, you’ll find an executable called OSC.exe (this is the protocol that sends TUIO messages) to FLOsc. FLOsc is the application that receives the TUIO messages from OSC.exe and hands them through to Flash.
Run the file OSC.exe. A window with some settings pops up, leave them unchanged and hit the “ok”-button.
Next, 6 windows pop up with the output of your webcam. Press b, to remove the background, changing 3 of the 6 screens to black.
Test your multi-touch display to see if your blobs (lit up finger tips) are detected. You can finetune some settings with the slider.
Now you go to the FLOsc folder, inside the Flash package, which you downloaded. Run the file run.bat
A prompt window pops up telling you “attempting to start OSC / Flash Gateway server” OscServer created… TcpServer created…
So now you got OSC.exe and run.bat (FLOsc) running. OSC can now send messages to FLOsc and FLOsc can receive them. Now all we have to do is start the applications, so FLOsc can send the messages it receives from OSC, to Flash.
Open up, for example Paint.fla. When the file is loaded, press CTRL-Enter to publish it. The file will be executed at that moment. You’ll see some predefined brush strokes being rendered on the canvas. Wait untill they are finished. Now you should be able to brush paint on the canvas with your fingers.
Follow the last step as well to run the other 2 applications (ripples and photo)