If you haven’t already seen it, check out the new “Street View” feature in Google Maps.
Totally cool: now you can take a virtual tour of Central Park, or actually scope out the particular building you are going to.
How do they get that street level imagery, you ask? Check out this van.
First Apple busts out consumer multitouch with the iPhone, then Microsoft shows up with Surface, a (almost) consumer multitouch table. Very cool. I love the table I made, but it definitely has it’s shortcomings: I’ll be nice to see what a real software/electronics company can come up with, and it looks like that’s exactly what we’ll see in the coming years.
MS Surface official site
Popular Mechanics article (featuring video & Jeff Han)
CNN article (with video)
CNET article (with video)
Forbes article
New York Times article
Ok, I’m diggin on WordPress like a fat kid on cake.
Now it’s time to get my CSS going so I can make this thing puuurdy.
Stay tuned.
Local Projects and Thinc Design have been selected to be the exhibit designers for the World Trade Center Memorial Museum!
Pretty big stuff. First meeting is a few days after I finish the Game U tour.
It seems that our NYIT gig in Manhattan has been changed to one over 100 miles away in Glassboro, NJ.
Few things say “you’ve pissed off this town” more than the locals raising over half a million bucks to get you arrested…
Below are the remaining show dates and locations.
If you’re around, drop by.
4/10/2007 Penn State University, State College PA
4/11/2007 SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta NY
4/12/2007 New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan NY
4/16/2007 West Chester University, West Chester PA
4/17/2007 Temple University, Philadelphia PA
4/18/2007 University of Richmond, Richmond VA
4/19/2007 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA
4/21/2007 Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA
4/23/2007 University of Central Florida, Orlando FL
4/24/2007 University of Florida , Gainesville FL
4/25/2007 University of Tampa, Tampa FL
4/26/2007 Eckerd College, St. Petersburg FL
…and if you drop by my section, the CGS, you can win $100 and a chance to be a professional gamer by playing Dead or Alive 4, Project Gotham Racing 3, or FIFA 07.
We’ve been enjoying a nice 3 day weekend after our last gig at the University at Buffalo, and are staying at the Hyatt in Buffalo, NY.
No Easter egg hunt, but Game Live is buying us dinner at the Steak house attached to the hotel.
Despite being somewhat small, the bunks on the bus are quite cozy.
Plus they all have tvs!
Kim showed up after we ran the Dead or Alive tournament, and proceeded to whup every guy who tried to fight her, including almost all of us.
Curly MCed in typical hilarious fashion, and she took it all with a smile.
It looks like we’ll be sending 2 UB students to New York…
