Media Lab Asia was a great vision that was not successful. One of those great ideas that demonstrate that great vision and wonderful ideas fail miserably if the ‘operations’ side — commonly ignored or considered unimportant part by several visionaries…
A Great but failed vision: MediaLab Asia
Movies by and for phones
Yes a professional movie can be made only using phonecams. And the moviemaker is right in believing: “I thought cinema in South Africa wasn’t the appropriate medium to represent who we are…it’s a mostly white phenomenon. Then it struck me…
Cameras
NYT has David Pogue’s excellent ‘update’ on digital camera market. Cameras are slowly becoming ‘Pen’ of the past. They will be used to make your experiences persistent. And this has really very interesting implications for our society. I already see…
Professor wins academy award
Yes, Professor Demetri Terzopoulos won an academy award. This work was a great contribution to computer vision/graphics and has resulted in its adoption in movie industry. It won an award that is unique: Scientific and Technical Academy Awards are given…
Research in search — really?
Yahoo! and Microsoft are building research labs to do research in Search to compete against Google. As pointed out in this article the real fight is not about Search but about Advertisements: Instead, the real opportunities come from getting more…