iPad Based Robot, Quantified Self, and Starcraft 2 Science: Link-O-Rama

by Joseph Flaherty on December 3, 2011

A good reminder of how much innovation we’ve yet to see in the tablet market.

ITP Thesis Work using a touch screens to power robots, make pressure sensitive iPad stylus, etc.

Extending the Touchscreen – ITP Thesis Teaser from Michael Knuepfel on Vimeo.

via David Nunez

 

Quantified Self Europe 2011

A wrap up of the 2011 European Quantified Self meeting and a collection of slides from the event:

Unfortunately, most of the slides have no annotations so it is often hard to full grasp the content, but there are plenty of interesting citations, Twitter handles, products, and other info to follow up on. This is a good example deck:

Two interesting, unrelated links:

How the video game StarCraft 2 has become a laboratory for scientists who study expertise, decision making, and other cognitive capabilities. This is required reading for anyone who dismisses a product or project as “Trivial”.

Interesting experiments and demos of “multi-screen” presentations.

Via Tim O’Reilly

 

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