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Category Archive: entertainment
Jon Jacobs, aka Neverdie, the gamer who bought a virtual space station for $100,000 says he wants to […]
Blitze Gidsen is an audio tour for museumgoers. Seven seperate audiotours offer different perspectives on artworks. The visitor, […]
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With Gulliver’s World, children can create their own theatrical production and allow others to experience it in virtual […]
“Wayang” Interactive Puppet , a project by So-youn Park from the Korea National University of Arts, is a […]
In order to avoid attending school physically, Iwamoto Satoru began operating a robot remotely from home to go […]
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Toyota has developed a dual-purpose navigation system that debuts on the Alphard minivan, making it possible for the […]
Researchers at the University of Munich and Saarland University have developed a rather ludicrous interactive beer mat for […]
Bogglevision is a live 3D illusions that allow virtual objects to float in space and interact live with […]
Even in Japan, professors often like students to read “serious” books rather than manga comics. But some professors […]
The first recorded story of a person being shot from a cannon was in England, circa 1877. Unfortunately, […]
The Japanese Communications Ministry is to establish a research group that will work to commercialize virtual reality television […]
Ugo Ugo Lhuga, one of the most unforgettable Japanese kids TV show in the 1990’s, is rerun on […]
Henrin, developed by Masaru Tabei and Yuria Terada, is a collection of CD-Rs that contains the life of […]
Virtual Canoe is a real-time water simulator with a database of 3D fluid dynamics. The system introduces realistic […]
Moving Pictures : Looking Out! Looking In! is a multi-user system that invites kids to create manipulate and […]
Sharp has apparently developed the first liquid crystal display that shows two completely different images depending on where […]
Ed Wood’s cult film Plan 9 From Outer Space (also called “the worst movie ever made”) can be […]
New Zealand researchers have devised a shape-shifting rubber reef that can be fitted to the floor of a […]
Simon Greenwold ’s I Like to Watch / CopVision is a program that watches television and in particular […]
Roadcasting allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among cars in an ad-hoc network within a […]
“Can television one day be something completely different from the content the entertainment industry is currently serving us? […]
InstantSharecam is a service for sharing in real-time and on the spot high-res videos/photos with your friends or […]
What do “The Jungle Book” and “True Lies” have in common? Both contain similar amounts of violence despite […]
Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain. The technique could […]
OneVideo Technology Corporation and Agile TV are developing speech-recognition products that will let viewers change channels with voice […]
As creative tools, digital cameras could transcend the constraints of analogue devices and give birth to new aesthetic […]
During the Expo 2005, spectator queueing to see a movie at Toshiba’s digital cinema are submitted to a […]
For the VJ who wants to join clubbers on the dance floor and still keep control over the […]
The distribution of short films has always been a problem. Cultural organisation Ciclo is testing an interesting solution. […]
Every night at 9pm thousands entertainment-starved Iraqis tune in to the state-run al-Iraqiya channel to see the “confessions” […]
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a computer-assisted method for colorizing black and white images and movies. […]
The 2005 San Francisco Flash® Film Festival finalists have been posted and People’s Choice voting is open. 15 […]
More details about the German Big Brother village. For Big Brother-Das Dorf, TV channel RTL II has built […]
Brendan Walker, researcher at the RCA in London, is working on a machine that can measure the experience […]
Producers of reality TV show Guantanamo Guidebook claim to have recreated torture techniques used at US detention camp […]
Arcade which is part of Project Blinklights is an interactive light installation, allowing mobile users to play games […]
As I’m going to Berlin tomorrow for the transmediale and club transmediale festival, I’m in the mood for […]
Near Berlin, a former zeppelin hangar has been transformed into Europe’s largest covered leisure resort (five million cubic […]
Guido Ciburski, a television software engineer, wants to launch Cybersky, a Web service that aims to do for […]