The new Open Data Tourism Hack at home initiative, part of the Open Cities project, aims to create apps to help cities manage the challenges of tourism. Prizes include €3000 in cash! It brings together two important themes of the smart city – open data and sensor networks – and uses them to help European [...]
Intel this week announced the Creative Senz3D Peripheral Camera at Computex. The Creative Interactive Gesture Camera, demoed at IDF in Beijing this Spring, is a 3D depth camera expected to become available next quarter. Intel plans to incorporate the technology into devices during the second half of 2014. Software applications will incorporate close-range hand tracking, [...]
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Portland Maine has a new BookMobile that features wireless Internet service and a computer powered by solar panels. The 24-foot-long bookmobile cost roughly $166,000 and was paid for through a combination of private money and library funds. The compact, colorful van is capable of carrying 1,500 books. It delivers them to city neighborhoods that don’t [...]
Spectators attending last year’s Dumbo Arts Festival in the Brooklyn neighborhood around the Manhattan Bridge thought they had seen some pretty impressive video projection mapping at the “Immersive Surfaces” event, but this year, stakes were raised by Codex Dynamic, a large-scale video projection exhibition, notes Live Design. The annual festival transforms streets, parks, bridges, buildings, [...]
NASA has just finish testing and integration of its first high-data-rate laser communications system for the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE). It will demonstrate high-rate laser communications from lunar orbit to a ground terminal on the Earth. The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) uses an infrared beam that can be received on Earth [...]
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